Last night Chris Abrahams, Tony Buck and Lloyd Swanton lulled me into a trance, teased me into a kind of delirium and stole a cherry I didn’t know I had. They took me into a room – it was a spectacular room. High ceilings, bulging walls that swelled at the peak of the throb of […]
Category Archives: Music Reviews
Roil – Frost Frost: Jazz Improv and beauty alive and well in Sydney
posted by lisathatcher
I’m off to see The Necks tonight – lucky lucky me – so there will be a review of that concert tomorrow. Today I thought I would review Roil Frost Frost, as they are another Sydney Jazz improv band – an off shoot project of The Necks Pianist Chris Abrahams in fact. Roil is: a […]
Marshall McLuhan – The Medium is the Me(a)ssage: Art is anything you can get away with
posted by lisathatcher
I wouldn’t be seen dead with a living work of art. According to Marshall McLuhan any anxiety experienced with the complexities of ‘being’ is mostly related to the redundancy of the outdated mental and psychological abilities we are using to make sense of the world. In many ways, certain philosophers and most artists (worth their […]
David Dunn | Patrick Farmer and Sarah Hughes – Bees and Ducks and Sound
posted by lisathatcher
I can’t give you sound bites to these two amazing (amazing amazing amazing) pieces of music but the downloads are very cheap and well worth the investment. The Compost and Height Split Series are a group of recordings coupled in with another recording. Compost and height carry a lot of interesting sound music. This series […]
The Chap: We are nobody
posted by lisathatcher
The Chap are an experimental pop band from North London. Their music is a mix of rock and pop. In early 2006 they toured Europe to support their second album Ham which gained much critical acclaim including an album of the month in The Wire. On 19 April 2008 (26 April in the UK) they released a third album, Mega Breakfast . During 2008 and […]
Chamberpot – S/T – rare rare rare jazz.
posted by lisathatcher
A little tiny music post today, because I wanted to feature this brilliant album that i have been listening to, that is unfortunately so rare I can hardly find any decent research info on it. But Oh my god – its STUNNING! It is extremely hard to get your hands on this brilliant album that came to […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 46 – 50
posted by lisathatcher
This post is part of a series. For the previous post, click here. We’re well and truly into the mid seventies with this series of five incredible albums that changed the world while no one was listening. Not all of these albums drive me nuts with pleasure, but they are all the best of the […]
Vijay Iyer Trio – Accelerando
posted by lisathatcher
I don’t usually buy ‘hot new albums’ – it’s not that I’m against anything new, and I am most certainly not against anything ‘hot’ – it’s just that there is so much music available that can’t fall into the category of ‘hot and new’ that I get distracted by the beauty that is easily available. […]
CATHERINE RIBEIRO+ALPES— PAIX
posted by lisathatcher
The strength of Catherine Ribeiro+Alpes’ exceptional debut album, “No. 2” caught the attention of Philips Records, who quickly signed the group in 1971. For the next nine years Catherine Ribeiro+Alpes would wind up producing a total seven albums for the label, with an additional two solo albums by Ribeiro essaying the songs of Edith Piaf […]
Brainstorm – Smile a while! Add a little Jazz fusion to your day.
posted by lisathatcher
So, this is a nice and snazzy little number to start your weekend with. Sure, its Jazz fusion, but it adds some Prog with a dash of Zappa for spice. We start this album with the gettin-ready-to-hit-the-town fun of Das Schwein Trugt (above), and then track two Zwick Zwick eases us into the rest of the […]
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