Category: Album Reviews – Archive

January 9, 2025 / Album Reviews - Archive

Tapestry 8.5/10 Whether it is fans banging heads on a Metallica stage or tears streaming down faces at a Shostakovich concert, no other art form shakes us up like music. It alone can cast a spell that takes control of your central nervous system. In the case of Vazesh, that…

October 6, 2024 / Album Reviews - Archive

Where We Are Now 7/10 Following in the giant footsteps of Ten Part Invention comes Mosaic, a new Sydney band with the same 10-piece instrumentation, and with the same shared emphases on improvisation and original compositions (from both inside and outside the band). Formed at the Sydney Conservatorium by trombonist…

August 27, 2024 / Album Reviews - Archive

Empty Voices 9/10 What a shrewd way to draw you in. Hamed Sadeghi begins Empty Voices with a musical supplication, simply entitled Please. Lasting only two-and-a-half minutes, it sets Sadeghi’s ringing tar (a steel-stringed Persian lute) against a simple drone, and yet the sense of entreaty is palpable – as…