Tag Archives: Avant-Garde
It’s a true blessing when we meet musicians able to spur us to leave our comfort zone behind. Kuunatic, a leftfield and far-out all-female Tokyo-based trio is the latest act who has led us far away from our ‘safe place’. To make your way into the Kuunatic world, you have...
Archie Shepp may not have executed his ideas with the same technical dexterity I imagine of earlier years. However in his mid-eighties, he still delivered a beautifully effectual experience that transcended any physical limitations. Alongside Jason Moran, their musical ideas revealed their reverence towards the plight of inequality and the complexities...
“Hawtorne” is the brand-new single (and first video) extracted from Dave De Rose & Dan Nicholls‘ collaborative LP plants heal, out today on DDR Records. The London-based experimental jazz duo will present their new album at Servant Jazz Quarters on Tuesday 16 November, part of EFG London Jazz Festival...
We have reached the third episode of our Musical Road to Womex and from Cuba and its grooviest funkero Cimafunk, we travel all the way to Japan for something completely different. On the island of Okinawa, we meet with a mesmerizing sanshin player, singer and composer, Aragaki Mutsumi. Little more than a...
With another edition of the K-Music Festival just around the corner, and this year it’s inevitably going to be quite a sui-generis and unique one, we wanted you to get acquainted with one of the acts making the bill of the Korean-music focussed event, which is starting on Saturday for the...
It has been twenty years since MONO began exploring the sonic world. An ethereal sound that is genre-less, it can only be described by the emotions a listener feels when hit by their gradual wall of sound. On 14th December, MONO will grace the stage of the Barbican, in order...
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Cementing Johannesburg as the third point in the triangle of modern jazz, this album transcends the traditional boundaries of genres to create something captivating, original and outstanding. Released in 2019, this album joins a year of supreme albums that merge genres and eras, taking modern jazz to new heights. In...
With so much good music being published and uploaded every month, we constantly find hard to keep up with all the releases. Luckily, “we get by with a little help from our friends”… We are more than thrilled to welcome and introduce you to Chamonix-based online radio, record label, DJs...
Midori Takada and Lafawndah blur the lines between live music performance and devotional ritualistic theatre. The two experimental artists from Japan and London have come together to showcase Ceremonial Blue, a stage production which is built around their 2018 EP Le Renard Bleu. As Takada plays out with handbells, antique...