Category: Features – Archive

November 1, 2014 / Features - Archive

Ralph Towner has just been on holiday. To the guitarist this is rather more noteworthy than helping redefine improvised music over the last 45 years by blending jazz, classical and South American elements. “I’m just learning from my wife how to take a vacation without going mad,” the American says…

October 26, 2014 / Features - Archive

An 11-year old American boy once became obsessed with the music of an Irish fiddler. Two decades later the pair formed a band that is re-shaping Irish music in ways that may echo through the ages. Imagine if Brian Eno or even Sigur Ros played traditional Irish music and you…

September 13, 2014 / Features - Archive

The trombone player of El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, Moises Nogueras, is still considered a new boy. He’s been a member for 23 years. Singer Charlie Aponte has now clocked up 41 years – nearly two-thirds of his life – in the Gran Combo. Yet he, too, was once…