Category: Album Reviews – Archive

September 8, 2020 / Album Reviews - Archive

THE ICE SIREN (Parade Light) 9/10 “Red roses turn to black. It’s strange how fast they die,” sings Miles Griffith as the protagonist in this modern-day variant on Orpheus and Euridice, the sheer audacity of which is as exhilarating as the music is often chilling. For five years the man…

September 1, 2020 / Album Reviews - Archive

THE ANDALUSIAN GUITAR (pacolaraflamenco.com) 8/10 The clap of a pair of hands is all it takes for a flamenco guitar to switch from fieriness to supreme elegance. Paco Lara, a distinguished Spanish guitarist who has recently moved to Australia and who plays with impressive articulation, tends to favour the music’s…

August 23, 2020 / Album Reviews - Archive

VESPER (Hubro) 8/10 Sometimes we listen too fast, so the music seems in slow motion. But music can only unfold at its own speed, and it’s we who must unwind enough to hear it; to be led into a world where chronological times stands still. In this collaboration with the…