…on new CDs from Elisbeth Flunger, Manon-Liu Winter/Klaus Hollinetz and Maria Frodl.

Remember 1985: In the 2000’s a lot of art forms have been facing a liftingin order to hide the fact that they weren’t anything esle but a revivalism and a merchandise. To return is not somthing you partcularly want to do unless you have exciting places to depart to.

Very personal review by Jean-Hervé Peron (FAUST) …

Forgive me this one, but almost inconsciously, the first thing to come in my mind while listening to this album is the early Chico Hamilton quintet. Of course it isnt without any reasons. First the instrumentation is the same here : Hans Koch ( Bass Clarinet and saxophones), Michael Moser ( Cello), Martin Siewert (Guitar…

Where and who is Manuel Mota in 2007 ? I’m not talking about finding his email adress or website or trying to locate him on a map. No map will do, he is his own. He is a presence, a passion, a source of light and inteligence, an evidence. – Two discs : one says…

In the Reggae world, if there was a Rub-a-Dub Army, U Roy would surely be General …

»Electric Dread« short-circuits Parisian Ground … Makavibes …

Who is gonna stop dem now … The Congoman is comin\‘ … back!!!

Jason Kahn/Tetuzi Akiyama: »Till We Meet Again« (For4Ears 1645)So here we are among Jason Kahn’s music, his label Cut and the other very well known recording company For4Ears. It is all based in Switzerland but if we follow the personal paths we will very soon find three basic routes leading there. The one from Berlin;…

Mercen Dede
»Breath«
Doublemoon 033

Kamilya Jubran/Werner Hasler
»Wameed«
Unit Records 4161

Five new releases from the Grand Label of Brighton, that I’ve somehow failed to review in time. Let’s try to rescue the clock’s damage, but when it‘ good it remains there so: # 1 – AMANDINE, »Waiting For The Light To find Us« ( CD Fat053). Swedish pop with angles and some soft sugar-acid colours…

Americans playing Reggae Music, and all of them are white men …That is something that must have been difficult to accept for Reggae purists and other rastas. But Groundation is now a name that almost every Reggae fan has already heard.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A new Burning Spear to discover: Some years after his last work »Freeman« the 60 years old rastaman is back with his refreshing new album »Our Music«, which is the first one recorded outside Jamaika. With new musicians from New York.

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«. […]