HOPE IN AN EMPTY CITY (www.josephtawadros.com) 8.5/10 Joseph Tawadros is not one to settle for regurgitating pat artistic successes. He keeps reaching for what lies beyond, and when he grasps it, truly elevated music results. You hear it here when Layth Sidiq’s violin, Scott Colley’s bass and Dan Weiss’s cymbals…
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MAYAN SPACE STATION (AUM) 8/10 Perhaps William Parker was Poseidon in a past life, given his uncanny capacity to calm or ruffle the music’s surface, or churn it up deep beneath, turning choppiness into great swells of sound. He lends his double bass an almost primordial vastness, not by being…
THE BRIDGE (Universal) 6.5/10 Sting’s boyish voice was, like the catchy tunes, reggae beats, restrained guitar and effusive drumming, a hallmark of The Police, and that youthfulness has never quite deserted him. Now 70 – an age when most voices deepen, darken, grow huskier, become wobblier or all four –…