Reviews
Alicia & Michael Olatuja: Olatuja
Although vocalist Alicia and bassist Michael Olatuja are accomplished artists in their own right, their collaborations bring out the best...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2024
Ruth Goller: Skyllumina
Italian-born bassist, vocalist and musical adventurer Ruth Goller prompted double takes with her deeply intimate, often unsettling 2021 debut Skylla,...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2024
Trio HLK: Anthropometricks
Varijashree Venugopal | Evelyn Glennie | Ant Law | Natalie Clein | Rich Harrold | Rich Kass
Anthropometricks applies the same process that Trio HLK employed on their debut Standard Time. Shards of standards are slivered from...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2024
Selma Savolainen: Horror Vacui
Okko Saastamoinen | Toomas Keski-Säntti | Max Zenger | Eero Tikkanen | Selma Savolainen | Tomi Nikku
The Latin title part-quotes Aristotle’s notion that “nature abhors a vacuum”, a suggestive phrase which helps Finnish singer-composer Selma Savolainen...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2024
Lynne Arriale: Being Human
Alon Near | Lynne Arriale | Lukasz Zyta
Picking up from her 2022 album The Lights Are Always On, which examined events and reactions around the Covid pandemic,...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2024
Dexter Gordon: Daddy Plays The Horn
Kenny Drew | Dexter Gordon | Larry Marable | Leroy Vinnegar
In a perfect world, had things not gone all possession, penitentiary and parole boards, the 1950s could have been Dexter...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2024
Shabaka Hutchings: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace can be seen and heard as a conceptual rejoinder to Afrikan Culture. That album...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2024
Rufus Reid & Sullivan Fortner: It’s the Nights I Like
A bass and piano duo might not have to play gentle music, but when it does, the range of expression...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2024
Flo and The Murmurs: The Waves
This bold and unusual debut recording features a string quartet and the pellucid voice of Marie-Florence Burki, who also wrote...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: April/2024
Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert
On 21 February 1971, Alice Coltrane took to the stage at New York’s Carnegie Hall as part of a benefit...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: April/2024
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