Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

January 3, 2022 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Lazy Bones Lounge, December 14 7/10 The opening Creeper was so delicate that you listened with the same nervousness you watch a child juggle a porcelain plate. Penned, like all Waveteller’s material, by bassist Michael Mear, Creeper exemplified the project’s fondness for exploiting space and dynamics. The often intricate interaction…

December 17, 2021 / Concert Reviews - Archive

The Baroque Room, November 21 7/10 The shapeshifting composer Kurt Weill went from jobbing pianist to become, in partnership with Berthold Brecht, the toast of the Weimar Republic. Having fled the horrors of Nazism, he slotted firstly into Paris, and then into American popular song via musicals and film, influenced…

November 23, 2021 / Concert Reviews - Archive

City Recital Hall, November 5 7/10 We were well into the concert when Jacqui Dark barely breathed “Ne me quitte pas.” Suddenly, after five months, you remembered why live music beats recorded music: you were no longer just another lost soul in a room, but part of a community of…