HOTHOUSE LIVE 2018 (ABC) 7/10 You hear it when Kevin Hunt just plays an electronic piano, let alone the magnificent, enhanced-range (99 keys rather than 88) Stuart & Sons grand piano heard here. It is his ability to make his lines effervesce with all the joy that has gone into…
Category: Album Reviews
PARIS CAFE (Putumayo/Planet) 3.5 A bottle of French bubbles is dirt cheap compared with an airfare to Paris, so buy two, plus the best baguette and camembert you can find, and then play this. Voila! Paris! Despite spanning many decades and variants of Parisian music, this album never breaks its…
LANZAROTE (Hubro) 8.5/10 If you only ever bought music on Norway’s Hubro label you’d still possess an improbably broad collection. At the same time that Lanzarote was released, for instance, out popped a bizarre album from drummer Oyvind Skarbo’s band, Skarbo Skulekorps (which races between surf music, the Caribbean, free…