Category: Album Reviews – Archive

May 26, 2021 / Album Reviews - Archive

@BREMEN 1964 & 1975 (Sunnyside/Birdland) 9.5/10 In 1964 the fieriest band Charles Mingus ever assembled lobbed in Germany for the first time – and promptly started playing 45 minutes late. The concert (most of which is present on this four-album set) swiftly made up for that, however, being crammed with…

May 21, 2021 / Album Reviews - Archive

SOMETIMES HOME CAN GROW STRANGER THAN SPACE (AAO) 8/10 Originally premiered in 2018 for the centenary of the end of the Great War, Sometimes Home Can Grow Stranger than Space contains highly personalised perspectives by three composers: Peter Knight evokes the irreparable grief of the parents of the dead, Tilman…

May 16, 2021 / Album Reviews - Archive

NOW THEN (Tao Forms) 9/10 Raindrops on a window move with glacial slowness until two or three converge, whereupon they race as one with extraordinary velocity. This trio is like that. When the music converges, all sense of self is lost in the exhilarating rush of collective music-making: a spiral…