Album review: Fanga/Maâlem Abdallah Guinéa – Fangnawa Experience
Fangnawa Experience is not quite erudite but not quite pop either, and can just as easily be listened to and appreciated from both perspectives. It…
Tag: jazz
Album review: Pat Metheny – Secret Story
A popular scientific hypothesis about dreams is that they are essentially the brain’s housekeeping, the various memories, fragments, and bizarre happenings drawn from all the…
Album review: Bixiga 70 – Quebra-Cabeça
Quebra-Cabeça is challenging music that requires, and rewards, close listening and careful attention. While it may seem intimidating and relentless, multiple listens open up a…
Album review: Dhafer Youssef – Birds Requiem
Album review: Dhafer Youssef – Birds Requiem Sometimes real truth can only be seen from the outside looking in. Genre: Chamber jazz/world fusion/contemporary classical Country:…
Album review: Eberhard Weber – The Colours of Chloë
Romantic, wistful, and melancholic—the definitive ECM record Genre: Jazz fusion with classical influences Country: Germany Release date: 1974 Label: ECM Format: 12” vinyl Catalog…