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June 24, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Vijay Iyer/Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems
Vijay Iyer/Craig Taborn The Transitory Poems ECM Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn, two of the finest pianists of the current crop, first worked together back in the early and mid-00s as part of Roscoe Mitchell’s band – this album marks their first work together as a duo. If you love/d the Herbie Hancock/Chick Corea album or any of Keith Jarrett’s solo piano explorations then you’ll want to sign […]Archive
June 23, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Koizilla: Warped (ep)
Koizilla Warped (ep) trace / untrace Though I’m not really a gamer, I was a fan of Crash Bandicoot. (Wasn’t everyone?) Now I’m sure you could dig Koizilla’s latest EP anyway, but being a Crash fan (past or present) will provide extra special memories, for this is a reimagining/re-arranging of six of the pieces of music from Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped – a Sony […]Archive
June 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 289
Run-DMC, Walk This Way [Single] (1986) I’m pretty sure I knew this version and knew about Run-DMC before I knew the Aerosmith version and maybe even before I (really) knew about Aerosmith. I certainly got into Aerosmith (for a while) on the back of this. I remember that much. Then it was to Beastie Boys and Public Enemy and all sorts of things on the […]Archive
June 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Andrew Cyrille: Lebroba
Andrew Cyrille Lebroba ECM This is Andrew Cyrille’s album – in that he’s the leader, his name is at the top, but the legendary jazz drummer is working here with two other stalwarts of the ECM label, Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) and Bill Frisell (guitar). It’s truly a trio album and magic happens here – it being the first time all three have […]Archive
May 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
William Tyler: Goes West
William Tyler Goes West Merge Records While a small part of me sits waiting for William Tyler to be offered a soundtrack project to showcase his amazing playing, composing and arranging skills, the bigger part realises that in some way Tyler has always been making soundtrack albums. This one, his latest, documents his journey from Nashville to LA, a new home and […]Archive
May 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Moby: Long Ambients Two
Moby Long Ambients Two Little Idiot Moby returns with a second volume of his long ambient pieces. Designed specifically to put you to sleep (hey! No jokes!) this nearly four-hour playlist/mixtape-of-an-album is, as with its earlier volume, in line with Max Richter’s Sleep. In fact there’s not a lot to say about this – and this is recommendation rather than review. The stretched, flattened, gospel-waft of […]Archive
April 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Smells Funny
Hedvig Mollestad Trio Smells Funny Rune Grammofon I like to check in with the Hedvig Mollestad Trio for every second album. Otherwise it can feel like the same line-up doing the same things. Which it still kinda does…but with a bit of breathing space you can see some new things, you can hear some slight variation. Where Black Stabat Mater was proto-Hendrix-hurricane at least Enfant Terrible had something of the […]Archive
April 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Laurel Halo: Raw Silk Uncut Wood
Laurel Halo Raw Silk Uncut Wood Latency Recordings Berlin-based, American-born sound-artist and composer Laurel Halo loves skitterish percussion, tinkering pianos and strident textures. She loves jazz settings – and then totally fucking with them, and she creates the best movie soundtracks for non-existent movies. All of that is on display here on Raw Silk Uncut Wood – but overall this is her most […]Archive
March 31, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 140: Red Snapper – “Our Aim Is To Satisfy”
I really don’t think I knew anything about this – not only this album but even the band Red Snapper. Now this is weird to me for one reason: Anything even vaguely Acid-Jazz related in and around the years 1997-2003 was entirely my bag. My bag clearly wasn’t big enough to keep this in it… So it’s time and place […]Archive
March 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Nate Smith: Pocket Change
Nate Smith Pocket Change Ropeadope LLC Nate Smith, master drummer – as a composer and musician he is both bandleader and session-sideman. He’s racking up the credits – in the last week or so I’ve reviewed his James Gadson-aping star-support turn on the Jose James album of Bill Withers covers and his furious funk attack as a cameo-star with The Fearless Flyers. […]Archive
February 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman