Sunday, 28 March 2021
Ryley Walker And Kikagaku Moyo - Deep Fried Grandeur, album review
Husky Pants
Thirty-seven minutes of far-out psychedelic raga jam, split into two eighteen-minute segments across its five movements for the sake of vinyl placing, apparently. Indeed, what we hear is a minor editing on the one long improvisation which is, whatever the cut/bifurcation of that musical jib, a soothing as well as rousing sail across gorgeous waters of a blissed-out collaboration.
For more details/performing cast: go here.
Tuesday, 16 March 2021
Pino Palladino & Blake Mills - Notes with Attachments, album review
Fresh Funk and Other
This is such a fresh sound, full of bursts and punches, then melodious asides. It is full of funk and this pulsing from the staccato rhythms and/or the bass of Palladino. Mills' instrumentation adds layers of surprising sounds that drift on and over and around these beats - or something like that. There are African rhythms and then explosions of sound coming from anywhere and everywhere. Raucous and beautiful.
Jeff Michaels - Not of the Earth, album review
I've just been listening and enjoying this collection hewn heavily from Hendrix influences. As Michaels himself says, it's all about wanting to 'play some guitar and hear some crazy stereo stuff' in lockdown which is precisely what he has done, perfectly.
Get it here.
