Keith Jarrett: Creation (ECM) 8/10 Nils Okland Band: Kjolvatn (ECM) 9/10 Colm Mac Con Iomaire: And Now The Weather (Plateau/Planet) 7/10 Paul Cutlan: Across the Top (Tall Poppies) 8/10 Music genres might not quite be, as our former prime minister would have it, “dead, buried and cremated”, but they are…
Category: Album Reviews
Silly Winds (Rouseabout) Some albums should be consigned to history at the earliest convenience, while others deserve resurrection and eternal life. Silly Winds is a compilation drawing on two of Cathie O’Sullivan’s albums from the 1980s. A long-time member of the Larrikins and subsequently an academic, O’Sullivan has an important…
Gefion (ECM) More than most instrumentalists guitarists influence one another across idioms as well as generations. Django Reinhardt, BB King, Paco de Lucia, Chet Atkins and Jimi Hendrix are examples, as, more recently, is Bill Frisell, who has clearly inspired the brilliant Danish guitarist Jacob Bro. It being an influence…