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Raye: This Music Can also fair Contain Hope review – a wildly ambitious account of unbridled self-expression

by musicsoundwizard@gmail.com   ·  1 day ago  

Last autumn, Raye used to be the topic of a lengthy profile in a well-known type journal. In it, the singer knowledgeable an legend that placed her in precisely the location it's seemingly you'll question following her winning debut album: ensconced within the studio with a truly huge name producer, the higher to capitalise on ...

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Tomeka Reid: Dance! Skip! Hop! overview – an early contender for jazz album of the yr

by musicsoundwizard@gmail.com   ·  3 weeks ago  

US cellist and composer Tomeka Reid and her frequent guitar soulmate Mary Halvorson bear aloof so many compliments for their jazzily vogue-free innovations throughout the last decade and a half, that they don’t must extinguish a 2nd proving anything else to someone. These two mettlesome musicians bear performed alongside the tricky, cerebral Anthony Braxton, and ...

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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 ...