HAVEN (Earshift) 7/10 They found the ideal title in Haven. The opening lament, No Shepherds Live Here, has, like most of the pieces, such a profound stillness at its centre that it’s as if, just by pressing play, you step out of the world for its duration and into a…
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THE PUSSYCAT TAPES VOL 1 (davemacrae.bandcamp.com) 9/10 What’s hits you between the eyes is the sheer energy! Four 24-year-olds playing their take on bebop at full-throttle and with no seatbelts. You feel it in your nerve-endings and racing heart, as if becoming a participant in the spiralling excitement. The Heads…
ON RUNNING 2 (Kimnara) 8/10 You don’t listen to this music, so much as fall into it. And keep falling. The underpinning cross-rhythm lacework, created by Carl Dewhust (bells) and Simon Barker (bass, cymbals), makes for a sonic version of peripheral vision, while in the foreground Phil Slater’s trumpet improvises…