Category: Album Reviews

November 24, 2020 / Album Reviews - Archive

FIKA (Move) 8/10 The integration deepens. Electric viola da gamba player Jenny Eriksson’s Elysian Fields project gave six players of diverse backgrounds a chance to excavate a unique collective sound, and the artistic success always partly depended on how successfully its disparate elements – classical, folk, jazz and early music…

November 20, 2020 / Album Reviews - Archive

UNTIL TOMORROW (www.timrollinson.com) 3.5 Just as we eat comfort food, we listen to comfort music – usually sounds we know and love. Remarkably enough, composer, guitarist and producer Tim Rollinson can make music that fulfils this function straight out of the box. His Modern Congress project’s third album should theoretically…

November 9, 2020 / Album Reviews - Archive

ALL WHO TRAVEL WITH US (Some of Two Parts) 9/10 Even more than with verbal conversation, the art of improvised musical dialogue is fundamentally one of listening. An instrument like the piano can potentially fill every corner of the sonic canvas, and here you hear Mark Isaacs creating space to…