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Album Review: Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter Five: In The Garden : a powerful and poetic jazz saga.

Jazz composer, saxophonist and visual-artist Matana Roberts powerful and profound Coin Coin album series has reached its fifth chapter with the release of harrowingly resonant ‘In the Garden’ via Montreal’s…

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Track: aramii – Tidal

aramii is the new moniker for the long time collaborative project between prolific artists Maria Chiara Argirò and Jamie Leeming, the duo behind one of Backseat Mafia’s favourite albums ‘Flow‘.…

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Album Review: Tomorrow comes the harvest – Evolution

Tomorrow Comes The Harvest project started with late Tony Allen, one of the originators of AfroBeat and Jeff Mills to get together to create an improvisational type of performance. The idea…

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Album Review: Slow Knife – A Hymn Supreme

Todmorden experimentalists Slow Knife have returned with a second album, the fully improvised two track long player, A Hymn Supreme. Taking its lead more than likely (as well as half…

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Live Review: The Comet Is Coming / Snapped Ankles – Somerset House, London 14.07.2023

Since being Mercury prize-nominated for their first album ‘Channel the Spirits’ in 2016, The Comet is Coming have continued to evolve through our cosmic plane! It’s hard to avoid the…

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Album Review: Peace Flag Ensemble – Astral Plains : Shimmering electro-acoustic jazz for wide horizons.

The first time you hear the music of experimental jazz collective Peace Flag Ensemble, you sense that it will be good for you. This is a band that make soundscapes,…

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Track/Video : Saxophonist, composer and jazz chronicler Matana Roberts announces new album ‘In The Garden’, Chapter Five in the visionary Coin Coin series.

Many new releases are anticipated but few have the added importance of Matana Roberts fifth instalment in their Coin Coin series ‘In The Garden’, due via Constellation on 29th September.…

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Album Review: Jonny Wickham – Terra Boa: Vibrant new jazz with a Brazilian heartbeat

Well you can’t say that Jonny Wickham’s first solo album lacks ambition. ‘Terra Boa‘, out now via Fresh Sound Records sees the jazz bassist and composer leading a sizeable band…

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Live Review: Love Supreme Festival – Glynde Place, East Sussex 30.06.2023

By Henry Groves I didn’t really know what to expect from Love Supreme festival. The lineup was packed full of phenomenal artists and bands, but it was also in the…

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Album Review: Emily Kuhn – Ghosts Of Us : Bouyant, melodic, refreshing jazz from the Chicago trumpeter.

Emily Kuhn’s new album ‘Ghosts of Us’, out now via the consistently impressive BACE Records, may have been written during the cloying pall of pandemic times but it represents an…

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