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May 311 min read
SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS by AIDAN LEVY (Hachette Books) (2022): Sonny Rollins and Thelonius Monk: the High Priest of Jazz
Sonny Rollins first heard Monk on the B-side of Coleman Hawkins’ ‘Drifting on a Reed’ b/w Monk’s ‘Flyin’ Hawk’ – “staccato accents to...
May 311 min read
SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS by AIDAN LEVY (Hachette Books) (2022): Sonny Rollins and Charlie Parker
A voluminous book, 770 pages in all, and meticulously detailed and written in an accessible and erudite way, comprehensive and detail...
May 312 min read
SENDELICA – NIRMATA (Fruits de Mer) (various formats including limited edition via Bandcamp) (Release date – mid-August, 2025)
The hospital field recordings and blood pressure readings seem an unusual way to start a new album by Welsh space rockers Sendelica, but...
May 291 min read
YAATRI – LETTERS TO A LOST POET (Bandcamp) (2025)
I first heard Yaatri at Peggy’s Skylight and was entranced by them, eagerly snapping up an autographed LP; I saw their subsequent EP...
May 291 min read
ATOMIC ROOSTER – The Reunion Album (Cherry Red) (2 x CD) (Release date: 30th May, 2025)
Coming with a bonus CD of a gig the band played at the Marquee Club in 1980, there are also 11 bonus tracks (out-takes, demos and a rare...
May 282 min read
GREENSLADE – LARGE AFTERNOON (Release date: 30th May, 2025) Remastered & extended edition (Cherry Red/ Esoteric) (2 x CD)
A surprise reunion in 2000 after Greenslade had disbanded in 1976 yielded “Large Afternoon” with original members Dave Greenslade...
May 281 min read
MAJA, GILAD AND NIXOS – A DARK MOVIE SCENE (Aesthetiko) (RSD limited white vinyl) (2005)
Maja Babyszka, British woodwind virtuoso Gilad Atzmon and Greek drummer Nikos Sidirokastritis have joined forces to create what the press...
May 281 min read
HAWKWIND – THERE IS NO SPACE FOR US (Cherry Red) (2025) (various formats)
This is the third in a trilogy of heavily synthesised albums that includes last year’s Stories from Time and Space and The Future Never...
May 262 min read
ADAM FAIRHALL & JOHNNY HUNTER PLAY MARY LOU WILLIAMS (Discus/ Bandcamp) (CD & DL)
Mancunians Fairhall and Hunter get back to basics with an upright piano and a snare drum. The origins of this recording are unusual in...
May 261 min read
JULEE CRUISE _FALL _FLOAT- _LOVE (Works 1989- 1993) (Cherry Red) 2 x CD (2025)
Julee Cruise (1956 – 2022): WIRE magazine said that Julee fitted into “the David Lynch world with her peroxide shock and rockette...
May 261 min read
FLYING LOTUS – ASH original soundtrack (Milan DL) (2025)
A heads up for the latest project of Steven Ellison, the man behind Flying Lotus who is the grandnephew of Alice Coltrane. He signed for...
May 262 min read
KAMASI WASHINGTON – LAZARUS (Original soundtrack) (Milan DL) (2025)
A heads up to a new release from Kamasi Washington who is already well known for his soundtracks: “Becoming” (Netlix) and “Shinichirð”...
May 261 min read
THE FLOWER KINGS – LOVE (Inside Out Music) (2 LP/ 2 CD) (2025)
*If anyone has a contact e-mail for Roine Stolt, I would be grateful if this could be shared so I can ask some questions about the album....
May 222 min read
GEORGE HARRISON – ALL THINGS MUST PASS (50th Anniversary Edition) (2 x CD) (Dark Horse Records) (2025)
In the artist’s own words “I knew I was gonna make a good album because I had so many songs and so much energy…it was joyous. A dream of...
May 221 min read
CENSUS OF HALLUCINATIONS – 5 (Bandcamp/ Falling A Records) (2025)
I can’t rightly recall when Stone Premonitions first released the fifth C of H but remember reviewing it for the Zeitgeist website. I...
May 221 min read
STEREOLAB – INSTANT HOLOGRAMS ON METAL FILM (Duophonic Discs/ Warp) (2 x LP, CD, DL) (Release date: 23rd May, 2025)
They’re having a listening party at my ‘local’ record shop. I would definitely go if I could on the evidence of the two tracks already...
May 221 min read
LA NOUVELLE MUSIQUE (Fruits de Mer Records) (LP) (Release date – 30th June, 2025)
A heads up for this album by Joanna Beck and Ian de Silva that they describe as “cinematic psychedelia, mixing the psych/ folk elements...
May 221 min read
QUARTET DIMINISHED – DEERAND (MOON JUNE RECORDS) (2024)
The title track is a 4-part suite and an accomplished and impressive start to the album with Mazyar Younes (piano), Ehsan Sadich...
May 151 min read
PHIL HARGREAVES PLUS MALCHAMECH – BEAUTIFUL DECAY (WHI MUSIC) (CD/DL)
Prepare for some free range jazz from Phil Hargreaves and his trio, impressionistic music with sounds varying from squawking gulls,...
May 151 min read
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