Track: Mdou Moctar release new track, ‘Chismiten’; announce new album
In more ways than one Mdou Moctar has come along way since 2008, when his raw emotional guitar music first began to spread beyond Niger across west Africa via the…
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John Parry
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Lifelong listener and occasional commentator- further adventures can be found on instagram, tumblr and sound selection/mixtapes on: mixcloud.com/HouseAtTheFootOfTheMountain/
Track: Battles release Stirling Bridge (DJ Diary & DJ Orient (Black Midi) Remix)
What makes a remix? Take the best bits of your stuff and plenty of my stuff and make it sound like ME or take the essence of mine and the…
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EP: Tom Misch and Yussef Dayes – What Kinda Music Bonus Tracks
If you got into Tom Misch and Yussef Dayes stellar album ‘What Kinda Music’ released in April this year, then here’s something to help you through the winter wilderness. Blue…
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Track: Spaza release new track ‘Xolile Mosi’ ahead of album
You know that jazz never goes away- it ebbs and flows in profile and popularity. But over the last five years or so jazz music has reached out, edged its…
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TRACK: David Lord – ‘Cloud Ear’: Chicago-style free guitar jazz teases for new LP
ON THE other side of the guitarist spectrum from the strut and stomp are the outliers, dogged explorers of the fretboard, scholars of the instrument’s sonic complexity. Derek Bailey, Fred…
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TRACKS: Actress shares two new tracks from his new album for Ninja
IF ONE artist was going to send out a press release for their new record styled on the redacted copy of a government report it is Darren Cunningham, aka Actress.…
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Track: Oliver Coates releases new track, ‘Honey’, from forthcoming album
TO CALL Oliver Coates a cellist tells you nothing at all. Oliver Coates is a musician whose work connects the circuits at the edge of dance and classical worlds. It’s…
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News: London Jazz Festival 13th to 22nd November 2020 – Announcement
London Jazz Festival, an amazing 28 years in, has become a big deal on the global music calendar. A stunning mix of international big hitters, emerging UK talent, old pioneers…
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Album Review: Hen Ogledd – Free Humans
Once again they come from the north-Hen Ogledd, time travelling space pop troubadours with music of weird and wonky magic. Originally the brainchild of folk experimentalist/indie anti-hero Richard Dawson and…
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Track: Keaton Henson releases new track ‘Husk’ ahead of forthcoming album
Keaton Henson’s music deserves all the devotion and respect it gets. From his cavernously personal home recorded debut ‘Dear’ in 2012 to the more recent tense and tormented orchestral ‘Six…
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