JAZZ CORNER Presents: Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder (1964)
This release is exceptional on many levels, the first and most important, and certainly most satisfying for this listener, is that the whole sounds like the sum of...
Jenell Kesler
Lloyd Cole – Standards (2013) review
Lloyd Cole "Standards" (Tapete Records, 2013) Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCBJ8BVy49w https://www.facebook.com/Lloyd.Cole.1961 Lloyd Cole, a British musician, seems to have disappeared into America for the last few years, doing occasional shows for...
Volta Sound – My All American Girl (2002) review
Volta Sound - My All American Girl (Orange Sky, 2002) Volta Sound [with the name being taken from the Italian physicist, who in 1800 invented the voltaic pile,...
Kingdom of the Holy Sun – Surya’s Smile II (2013) review
Kingdom of the Holy Sun "Surya's Smile II" (2013) There’s a recipe for the sound Kingdom Of The Holy Sun make ... though sadly too few seem to...
Black Lizard – Solarize (2015) review
Black Lizard "Solarize" (Soliti, 2015) http://blacklizardmusic.bandcamp.com/album/solarize On Solarize, Black Lizard’s newest and finest release to date [a release that too sadly will force nearly everyone into purchasing as...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Herbie Mann – Stone Flute (1970)
Artists often fall short when they step out of their trademark sound, but not Herbie Mann, best known for his soulful jazz. Here on Stone Flute, Mann slides...
The Charlatans – Modern Nature (2015) review
The Charlatans "Modern Nature" (2015) In a very good way, “Modern Nature” is a warm crazy swirling patchwork of songs and sounds drawn from the last 40 years,...
Steve Gunn – ‘Way Out Weather’ (2014)
The music of Steve Gunn’s newest release 'Way Out Weather', is ebbing from my speakers like some hypnotic high tide, inching across my floor, enveloping the space in...
Papercuts – ‘You Can Have What You Want’ (2009)
Let’s face it, the Papercuts are/is Jason Quever, an artist who hands out lyrics that are occasionally decipherable, nearly always dealing with an internal depression of self-worth and...
Kurt Vile – ‘God Is Saying This to You…’ (2009)
If anything, Kurt Vile’s 'God Is Saying This To You …' will instantly spark memories of the godfather of low-fi, John Fahey, and though more than half of...