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album review: benmont tench: the melancholy season.

This is an album of absolute luxury. Each track on ‘The Melancholy Season’ is decadent and opulent, the vocals from Tench are soothing and velvety throughout while the strings that…

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Album Review: Dani Scheffels – hi

Daniel Scheffels has established himself as a drummer, composer and producer in various formations and genres. As a drummer, he has played with K.I.Z., Tarek K.I.Z., Ralph Heidel, Simon Popp…

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Album Review: PC Nackt – Angabe Der Person

PC Nackt is a multiple Grammy-nominated post-genre composer, performance artist, multi instrumentalist and producer from Berlin. Nackt is co-founder of various projects, including the electropunk band WARREN SUICIDE, the orchestra…

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Track/Video : Ambient keyboardist Nico Georis announces his contemplative ‘Cloud Suites’ album with the glistening ‘Ice Crystals’.

“It’s nature’s way of telling you in a song” said Randy California and artists like Nico Georis create through that connection. A gifted classical pianist who stepped beyond such disciplined…

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Album Review: Schramm – Androide Scrip (Edition DUR 09)

ANDROID SCRIP is a jazz record – not mainstream, but plain and simple: piano, drums, bass. Point. Influenced by artists such as The Bad Plus, E.S.T., Thom Yorke, Bush to Muse,…

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PREMIERE: Piers Thibault streams compelling debut EP ‘Ire’

Having put himself on the Backseat Mafia radar last month with the devastatingly beautiful debut single ‘Dusk’, Piers Thibault’s forthcoming EP has been the subject of repeated listening when we’ve…

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Track: Leif Vellebekk – Tallahassee

Its almost strange to think that Tallahassee is an outtake from Leif Vollebekk’s Twin Solitude album. Yes, that was a record thats been heaped with praise, but if you just…

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Live: The Fruitful Earth – “Rising Sun” album launch at Servant Jazz Quarters

Dalston Kingsland, half-eight on a dreary Thursday night, the capital greasily covered with filthy spring rain. This is not at all in keeping with the spirit of the record we’re…

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A Buyers Guide to Ben Folds

Habitual piano botherer Ben Folds is one of those artists in rock and roll whose reputation far exceeds their sales. Both as a solo artist or leading his misnamed Five,…

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