Catherine Howe and Saffron Summerfield
Catherine Howe Because…It Would Be Beautiful (Talking Elephant TECD 306, 54.27) Saffron Summerfield Salisbury Plain / Fancy Meeting You Here! (Talking Elephant TECD 309, 69.09) Now and again...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Albert Heath, Ethan Iverson & Ben Street – Philadelphia Beat (2015)
Listen/buy: http://sunnysidezone.com/album/philadelphia-beat I know, it’s been awhile since I sat down with you cool cats and kitten ... this afternoon Philadelphia Beat is playing in the background, sounding like...
Osamu Kitajima – Benzaiten (1976) review
Osamu Kitajima - Benzaiten (Merlins Nose Label Group) Listen/buy link: https://merlinsnoserecords.bandcamp.com/album/benzaiten World music and ethno sounds with an obvious Japanese origin meet progressive rock and psyche. The result...
Doug Tuttle – It Calls on Me (2016) review
Doug Tuttle - It Calls on Me (Trouble In Mind, 2016) Calling the musings of Doug Tuttle a hybrid of the genre he set out to prefect with...
Nihilist Spasm Band / Metabolismus release
When discussing the most unique free form bands emerging from the psychedelic '60s, it is almost impossible not to mention Nihilist Spasm Band. They were so ahead...
Remembering Bernie Worrell (1944-2016)
So many influential musicians have died this year. It seems like every other week there’s sad news of another cherished artist’s passing. One such death that affected...
Messer Chups Top 10
Russia’s Messer Chups is an act whose evocative titles tell you a lot about their sounds and sensibilities. Albums with names like Surf Riders From the Swamp Lagoon,...
Hashish – A Product Of (2016) review
Hashish - A Product Of (LP/CD on Subliminal Sounds/Woah Dad!/2016) A new slice of Swedish psychedelia that borrows equally from such diverse influences as funk, soul, prog, cinema...
The Move – Shazam (1970) review
Absolutely, Positively the Definitive "Shazam"! "Shazam" by The Move (Esoteric Recordings, 2016) Released nearly two years after The Move's eponymous debut LP, "Shazam" finds a band maturing and...
Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Black Sabat Mater (2016) review
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Black Sabat Mater (Rune Grammofone, 2016) I don’t know where Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen finds time to breathe – or sleep or eat or.... As...