I feel kind of bad that my first four purchases of the year have all involved artists who I already know and love (albeit one of them with a new-to-me collaborator, and one in a new-to-me solo guise). But this is Irisarri in his pomp, and I wasn’t going to pass that up, was I? […]
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Caterina Barbieri is a firm favourite of mine. Her contributions to this are instantly recognizable, all cascading loops of lovely analogue synth. There is a split between fast-mode Barbieri and slow-mode Barbieri, in Patterns Of Consciousness terms. It’s good stuff. Bendik Giske is new to me, and I have to say that, while jazzy saxophone […]
These two twenty-minute tracks from the mighty Christina Vantzou may be the most deep-listening-oriented work of hers that I’ve encountered. In fact, I confess that the first time I heard it, I had it on while I was concentrating on something else, and it kind of slid by without my really noticing. I’m glad that […]
David Moore is well-loved around these parts as the main fella out of Bing & Ruth. Here he is in a solo guise, tickling the ivories rather delightfully. In places, he is rather restrained, allowing the chords to hang in space. More often, we get the dense clouds of arpeggios which B&R fans will know […]
dogrando writes about some records 