In the pure tradition of Organ Blues Soul Jazz combos once more. I guess if you can play and record things like that in 2006 you could have done so […]

Directly baked from the Norah Jones academy (featuring herself on piano and vocals too), »Slow New York« is a real ode to the city and a certain way of life […]

A single white page booklet in a thick recyclable double cardboard sleeve (blue, silver and natural abstract prints). Six tracks »Recorded and composed« over 2003-2005 by the still young (Zürich […]

Charlie Hunter is more known for his Groovy Jazz trio albums and performances as an all-man band on guitar (can’t quite remember if that was 7 string guitar or something […]

»Electronic post club minimal house from Berlin«? I actually dunno how you call that kind of sounds. It has a beat, some chords very far in the back of the […]

Who needs that? ECM maybe? The music is fine though it’s exactly what you find these days in »Jazz« sections, but has as much to do with Jazz as Shakira […]

A »Nice masterclass« … Something sounds wrong here but I can’t quite tell you what yet. I mean the line up is very nice (Brazil, France, USA, etc.), very diverse […]

Vol.19: 19 tracks and close to 79 minutes of music … there’s something here. OK that’s 100% dance functional music (with supplies »für dein Handy« too). You know what? After […]

It looks like an advertising for L.Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics but I haven’t started to listen to the album yet, so I can’t tell you if it also sounds as such […]

Mozart, Chopin, Schumann and Liszt: A very piano-piano program, which is offered to us as a sort of Horowitz tribute but also (as printed inside) as »old memories/new perspectives«. My […]

»Yes she is the daughter of her father …« (and that’s it). But what I can’t tell is, if she ever worked before (they do on that one) with him […]

Park Attack is a trio from Glasgow with Guitar-Vocals, Drums and Synths with post-past music and sounds. Somewhere around DNA, Sonic Youth or Steve Albini’s 90’s productions. It remarkably interpretated […]

The new band of Paul Wallfisch, ex-Firewater singer and keyboardist, from New York is: Botanica. A pretty good mixture of 60’s/70’s pop sounds (lyrical electric guitars with tremolo and cheap […]

Comment j’ai tout raté dans un le Monde moderne des musiques et des arts – Petit guide rapide du Succès.

Rencontre en Banlieue Parisienne. Il y a encore tellement de personnes a découvrir. Tout recommence toujours alors je demande: Qui étés-vous? Et la réponse arrive : »pfff … Bellenger, Alexandre, 30 ans, musicien et d’autres trucs dans le genre. Ca vous va ?« – Vous ne le connaissez pas encore? Moi non plus en fait. 20 questions a Alexandre Bellenger!

If Derek Bailey sounds pretty enthusiastic, as reported on the footnote, I am definetely a little less. He says: »Very interesting, varied, exciting, dynamic, new ways explored by Shineform, congratulations«. […]

Looking uncarefully at this CD you’d probably expect a piano duet which in itself is already a sort of mystery and extra-teritorial subject (I think Cecil Taylor is a specialist […]

We’ve all heard strings improvising before but we can always be surprised when it seems again totally new. That doesn’t happen too often, it is true. If duets are the […]

Trunpet, alto, double bass and drums. The sign of modern jazz but as a reference (considering Ornette Coleman’s original quartet and later various bands such as the Paul Motian quartet […]

I’m extremely thankfull to misses and mister Sony for sending me a copy of that best-of-the-best Annie Lenox and Dave Stewart works. Like probably many of us here I’ve never […]

Anything and everything for the Blues. »My heart to daddy« in this case. You’ll never see me saying a single bad word on an artist of the size of BB […]

How many MTV unplugged records do we keep at home? At the end I can’t really count much more than three: Nirvana, Bob Dylan and the bootleg copy of Björk […]

Since some year already I sort of prophetise the »Return of Fusion music and Jazz-Rock« But it didn’t come down on us yet. As I was opening my views to […]

It became so seldom that the classical music marketing and industry finds in one same artist (and person?), a good product as much as an original talent (and I’m volontary […]

»Musikalische Improvisationen im Reaktor« is what you should know first. A beautiful sound full of natural reverb, real nice tones and players obviously for a sort of »end of the […]

While many music critics are trying to announce the fall and death of electronic music (against a return to guitar music or rock bands), we still get loads of products […]

Includes the hits »Trapped in the closet (Chapters 1-5)« seems important enough here to be sticked on this new release. It doesnt probably have any relation at all with the […]

Gold showers on Verve as well. LESTER YOUNG wit OSCAR PETERSON TRIO is the compiled original double 10“ plus a crazy track (# 13!) where Lester sings himself (or let’s say hums better). Barney Kessel on Guitar (his best years) and what will you do if Ray Brown wasn’t on bass? Following is: Oscar Peterson…

In 1989, on their way to Ponto-Corvo, the radical advertists group Didi&Noël, driving a car at 6:34 AM, were arrested by the C.I.W. To this present day we still don’t really know the motivations of their trip, but it’s been said a secret meeting involving Che Guevara, Karl Lagerfeld and Carlos was to take place there. After about six years of research, the music critic from »Die Zeitung-Zeitung« (who wishes to remain anonymous) has hijacked some of their daily correspondence. A book shall be published next year which is temporarily entitled »Your Fuckin Kampf, Not Mein!« – Good Luck.

Demain mardi 1er novembre 2005. Le jour des morts, ça risque d’être très long ça. Très chiant, voire même tout à fait sinistre. Il me reste encore quelques heures pour aller voir un film. Dernier refuge, dernier salut: la salle obscure.