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Track: Mind Maintenance – ‘The Ladder’: Chicago legends Joshua Abrams and Chad Taylor bring percussive African contemplation

  • May 4, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
IF YOU’RE at all a follower of the Chicago music scene that erupted in so many directions back at the turn of the century, then the rhythmic adepts Chad Taylor and Joshua…
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See: Axis: Sova – ‘(Don’t Wanna Have That) Dream’: Chicago psych with a noir lullaby twist

  • April 20, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
AXIS: SOVA began, as many excellent bands do, as a means to a gigging end (see similarly colonised TEKE::TEKE over at Kill Rock Stars, for example). Brett, the Sova of…
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See: The video for Mind Maintenance’s ‘Glow & Glimmer’: Chicago’s Chad Taylor and Joshua Abrams step out for some exceedingly cool world-jazz melodicism

  • April 1, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
TAKE one of the finest and most intuitive leftfield jazz rhythm sections of past decades, Chicago drummer Chad Taylor and bassist Joshua Abrams, who between them amass waay over a…
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Droppin’ Knowledge: In Chi-Town, Rashid Hadee Is On The Beat. And The Mic, Too.

  • March 29, 2021
  • MD Semel
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

  • March 29, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
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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Track: Ryley Walker’s ‘Axis Bent’ is a baroque and complex glory; his new album’s out soon

  • March 8, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
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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SEE: The Twilite Tone – ‘Do It Properly’: dancing through the Windy City with future breaks

  • October 22, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
CHICAGO’S enlightened future breaks producer The Twilite Tone has just unveiled the video for “Do It Properly”, one of the standout tracks from his diaristic debut album for Stones Throw,…
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SEE: Slow Pulp – ‘At It Again’: a Chicago fuzzpop cracker

  • September 19, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
SLOW PULP are a band who’ve been around the block – in a really, dreadfully short space of time. Don’t wish for the kinda year singer Emily Massey’s had. No,…
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SEE: the pristine ‘tronica of Sam Prekop’s ‘Above Our Heads’

  • September 9, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
SAM PREKOP has been building beguiling melodies with the lightest of touches for decades now; firstly with Chicago’s The Sea and Cake, and then as a solo artist.  If you…
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SEE: Ganser – ‘Projector’: a post-punk despatch from our dystopia

  • July 29, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
IT CHARGES at you on wiry guitar and rumbling tom-toms, a shadowy simmer. We’re in a lecture theatre, with vocalist and keyboard player Nadia Garafalo demure in a sweater: our…
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