Kategorie: Review Archives
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»The Spirit Of Django«
I am not always sure anymore that the Django open reference is a plus for all productions. Of course it allows fans and afficionados to recognize the file quickly but…
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»White T-Shirt«
Micky Green has been heavily working out her looks and concept. If you don’t catch the album just from its cover, she would have missed something already. So did I,…
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»You can do everything«
From the way they sound I immediately look for places and particularly origins. This only happens in the States, you don’t get that sort of deep fried fat rockin‘ shuffling…
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»The Kick«
Got that one obviously too late: »The Kick« celebrates 2008’s Euro Football thing, that already happened now. Lyrics are juicy like hell, and suddenly flashes you back to the long-long…
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»It ain't necessarily Evil«
I feel a bit like arriving in the middle of a familly dinner, while I play that album. First I have no clue to the »Vol. 1«, not much more…
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»Early Doldinger - The Complete Philips Sessions«
Is there a life before, and therefore after too, such a group as »Passport«? Is German tenor saxophone fame Doldinger the Dave Sanborn, Jan Garbarek or Wayne Shorter or else…
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»Colours«
A classic piano trio (bass & drums) melting with pop and electronics, songs and looped grooves. I don’t mind a certain dose of fusion and easy music so that I’m…
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»The Blues«
The cover shows you a Les Paul guitar more or less vintage and supposed to get you into the whole idea via references (from Jimmy Page to Michael Bloomfield and…
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»Mosquito Bite«
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…
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»Slow New York«
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…
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»Effacement«
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…
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»Copperopolis«
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…
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»Peruments«
»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…
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»Stoa«
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…
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»Weaving Symbolics«
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…
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»SuperItalia Vol. 19«
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…
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»The Ultimate Adventure«
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…
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»Memory«
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…
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»Briefly Shaking«
»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…
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»Half-past Human«
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…
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»Berlin Hi-Fi«
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…
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»Waterpercussion« | »Transformation«
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«….
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»Solos«
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…
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»Firedance«
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…
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»Oskar&Emma«
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…
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»Ultimate Collection«
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…
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»80«
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…
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»Unplugged«
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…
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»Shelf-Life«
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…
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»Opera Proibita«
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…