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Yumi Zouma: No Indulge in Lost to Kindness review – Current Zealand dream-poppers’ reinvention doesn’t chase a ways adequate

by musicsoundwizard@gmail.com   ·  2 months ago  

Yumi Zouma are breaking up with dream pop. After a decade collectively, the Current Zealand four-portion have honed an airy, lush, evenly melancholic sound – but now they need replace. “Extra low the entirety, more boldness,” guitarist Charlie Ryder has acknowledged of fifth document No Indulge in Lost to Kindness, written true by the band’s ...

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Leonkoro Quartet: Out of Vienna album review – a blazing exploration of Viennese modernism

by musicsoundwizard@gmail.com   ·  2 months ago  

Founded in Berlin in 2019, the Leonkoro Quartet is no stranger to the UK having received first prize and 9 particular awards on the 2022 Wigmore Hall global string quartet competition. In their unique disc they explore three composers who embody the musical cutting-edge that can need been encountered within the Austrian capital both side ...

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Julie Campiche: Unstated evaluate | John Fordham’s jazz album of the month

by musicsoundwizard@gmail.com   ·  2 months ago  

Wbird the London jazz festival ran on-line ultimate in 2020, a tantalizing livestreamed efficiency by Swiss harpist Julie Campiche’s avant-jazz ensemble was a startling spotlight, introducing UK audiences to a virtuoso instrumentalist and composer who was already turning heads in Europe. Campiche plucked guitar, zither and east Asian-style sounds from the harp, mingled with vocal ...

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Strozzi: Virtuosissima Sirena album evaluate – Laura Catrani enchants with song from a accurate Venetian innovative

by musicsoundwizard@gmail.com   ·  2 months ago  

Barbara Strozzi used to be a accurate 17th-century innovative. The adopted and slightly presumably the natural daughter of poet and librettist Giulio Strozzi, she grew up in the bosom of the Venetian intelligentsia, taking segment in debates from the age of 15. Her tally of 120 revealed works for solo exclaim used to be unequalled ...