GOD Laibach have been on a winning form since 2017’s Also Sprach Zarathustra, that oozing dark matter and gravelly gravitas of yore gloriously reconfigured, later thrown around on the sonically saturated Wir Sind Das Volk. Now this latest offering, Sketches Of The Red Districts, sees them returning to the conflict-ridden knot of a country that was Yugoslavia, taking from it two points of reference (both from the band’s […]
Monthly archives: January 2023
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Discus The three members of Shiver like nothing better than to collaborate separately and are involved in numerous projects. The trio itself has been quiet recently recording wise, but the chance to hook up with Yorkshire-based pianist Matthew Bourne at his house was too good an opportunity to turn down after the hysteria of lockdown, and the quartet used forty-eight hours to lay down , the first of […]
Efpi The Beats & Pieces Big Band has been together in one form or another since 2008 and is doing its best to breathe new life into classic big band jazz. The dancefloor filler of its time, moved the head and the heart, and was filled with a sweeping sense of life and joy. Ben Cottrell‘s collective bring that sense of wonder and momentum smoothly into the twenty-first […]
Universal In the depths of a bleak January such as this, one might very well find oneself tramping across sodden fields, beneath sullen grey skies, breath forming clouds in the cold and clods of mud clinging to your boots, crows wheeling and calling overhead and a line of skeletal trees marking a boundary in the distance. Looking up at the dark, bruised sky, you might imagine that music […]
Magma / NEWS Belgian four-piece Tukan come at their interpretation of kinetic rock music as if some of them have spent a proportion of their time lost in the intense sweep of post-rave dance music. The drifting synths and Balearic keyboard motifs welded to live drums and bass make for an organic, muscular journey. There is a sense of that dance euphoria spread across most of the seven […]
Buried Treasure The slick satin soft-back cover – a sense of luxury housed in a warm bakelite grey, that Festival of Britain motif fanning out in ’50s spirographics. This is a beautiful artefact, a labour of love from Alan Gubby’s Buried Treasure label, an ode to those pioneering pre-digital days and more.
Naïve LA-based Bryan Senti has already placed his debut album Manu online, a post-classical string trio treatise that places minimal Western leanings within a fresh narrative which borrows from the indigenous sounds of his Latin American roots. Finally it is receiving a vinyl release and well deserving of this honour it is, from the of the cover image to the lush black RTI pressing.