Antahkarana 8/10 What a great title. Antahkarana, the latest instalment of The Three Seas’ 13-year voyage into a previously uncharted fusion of traditional Bengali music, jazz, dub, pop and more, is Sanskrit for “inner instrument”. This refers to the place inside us where memory, intuition, identity and soul converge. Add…
Category: Album Reviews
Breath (Newmarket) 8/10 Christopher Young is something of a maverick on Melbourne’s jazz scene, only occasionally releasing albums, but always having something worth saying. He’d known Dom Cheviet, a fellow reeds player from France, for 25 years before they finally got around to collaborating, and what a project it is.…
Stand Up! (Analogoue Tone Factory) 8/10 When I first played this, I did a double-take; checked no one had slyly replaced my amp and speakers. No. So then I just bathed in the analogue sound: analogue at every stage of the album’s creation, including meticulous mastering to high-quality vinyl. Released…