Category: Album Reviews

February 19, 2014 / Album Reviews - Archive

Book of Omens (Nine Winds)  If you like your art as dark as a gallery at midnight this is the album for you. If you like your art to stir visions of doom, of the apocalypse or of a very, very bad-hair day, this is the album for you. If…

February 2, 2014 / Album Reviews - Archive

No End (ECM)  So you think you have a pretty fair idea of what a new Keith Jarrett album will sound like. Perhaps you assume the only relevant question is whether it is a solo piano or a trio one. What if I told you it is solo, but it…

January 21, 2014 / Album Reviews - Archive

Live in Latin America Vol. 1 (FMR) This project was perfectly titled, given that the weave of percussion instruments provides a backdrop in constant flux both texturally and rhythmically, as if affected by the play of light or the direction of the wind. It is a mouth-watering fabric of sound…