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Droppin’ Knowledge: In Chi-Town, Rashid Hadee Is On The Beat. And The Mic, Too.

In hip hop, a sample can sometimes lead you on an unexpected journey. Rashid Hadee’s first box of vinyl records came from his uncle. The Chicago rapper and producer discovered…

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Album review: Ryley Walker – ‘Course In Fable’: Chicago baroque-folk genius brings the prog to his latest dazzler

TROUBADOUR genius touched by the hand of the Tim Buckley, collaborator on some very fine albums, sole architect of yet other records that fall very much in that same category,…

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Album: Birdpen – All Function One

English alternative rock duo Birdpen are the creation of Dave Pen and Mike Bird. They mix elements of alternative guitar rock, experimental electronica and Krautrock with cinematic moods, all delivered…

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Blu-Ray Review: Defending Your Life

As humans, we spend a disproportionate amount of time contemplating our own mortality. Sometimes at the expense of actually ‘living’. This inquisitiveness often centres on what happens after we depart…

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Track: Little Arrow – ‘Poetically Diseased’ (Live at Four Bars, Cardiff, 2014): potent live take heralds the tenth anniversary rerelease of ‘Music, Masks & Poems’

HAILING from far out west in deepest Pembrokeshire, Little Arrow began making waves on the Welsh scene a decade back with a fully musically and emotionally realised debut album, Music,…

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Track: Abdullah Ibrahim – ‘Did You Hear That Sound?’: South African jazz legend releases a new live recording of the 1979 classic

IF EVER there was a living legend of jazz, then South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, must surely be right up there; Julliard-educated, rubbing performative shoulders with the likes of Pharoah…

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Blu-Ray Review: Lost in America

Most of us spend much of our lives working, often in grey office blocks in some soulless and essentially pointless white-collar profession. Doing much the same thing, day in, day…

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Scratch The Surface: The Jasmine Minks – Scratch the Surface (Creation Records, 1989)

Formed in Aberdeen in 1983 by Jim Shepherd (guitar/vocals), Adam Sanderson (vocals/guitar), Martin Keena(bass guitar), and Tom Reid (drums/vocals), The Jasmine Minks were a staple on the 80s indie scene,…

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News: Kid Millions and Mouse On Mars’ Jan St. Werner announce exploratory album for Thrill Jockey; hear ‘Sorrows And Compensations’

IF YOU like your experimental tunes wholly exploratory and improvisational, then the news that Kid Millions, known elsewhere for his work with Man Forever and Oneida, and Mouse On Mars’…

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Track: Ya Tseen’s ‘Knives’ Works Towards Emotional Normality

Many of the day-to-day emotions we take for granted have been atrophied by the pandemic, and artists have begun to explore how we can return to emotional normality. In anticipation…

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Droppin’ Knowledge: In Chi-Town, Rashid Hadee Is On The Beat. And The Mic, Too.

Album review: Ryley Walker – ‘Course In Fable’: Chicago baroque-folk genius brings the prog to his latest dazzler

Album: Birdpen – All Function One

Blu-Ray Review: Defending Your Life

Track: Little Arrow – ‘Poetically Diseased’ (Live at Four Bars, Cardiff, 2014): potent live take heralds the tenth anniversary rerelease of ‘Music, Masks & Poems’

Track: Abdullah Ibrahim – ‘Did You Hear That Sound?’: South African jazz legend releases a new live recording of the 1979 classic

Blu-Ray Review: Lost in America

Scratch The Surface: The Jasmine Minks – Scratch the Surface (Creation Records, 1989)

News: Kid Millions and Mouse On Mars’ Jan St. Werner announce exploratory album for Thrill Jockey; hear ‘Sorrows And Compensations’

Track: Ya Tseen’s ‘Knives’ Works Towards Emotional Normality