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... Talented guitarist Otto Fischer is the only musician Hawkins has kept from the Ensemble's previous line up - now joined by rising saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings (Of Sons Of Kemet) plus a trio of artists with whom Hawkins already has shared history: bassist Neil Charles and drummer Tom Skinner are both fellow [...]1. Step Wide, Step Deep/ Space Of Time Danced Thru 2. Forgiven Only Words Once 3. Mo / (-Ittoqqortoormiit) 4. Listen/Glow 5. Advice 6. Assemble/ Melancholy / Baobab Constellation | | | | |
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1. On A Brule La Tarte 2. Du Poil De La Bete 3. Les Flics De La Police 4. Ho Chi Minh 5. Chauve Et Courtois
| | 1. Tourmaline 2. Gold 3. Star Line Was What He Said! 4. Diasporic Liaisons In Dalston 5. Ivory, Uvory & We Very 6. Ebony Speaks Like A Drum 7. Afronauts Ra Black Fore Moor [...] | | |
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... There's also plenty here that confirms and underlines the two musicians' diamond-bright avant-garde credentials. Hear how, on the title track, Crispell's abrasive rubbing of the guts of the piano and [...]1. Longing 2. Town & City Halls 3. Conversation 4. A Subtle Freedom 5. Notes In The Sky 6. Illumination 7. Flame 8. Sun Song 9. Parallel Moments 10. Distant Voices | | ... It's an ensemble that makes full use of the breathtaking cultural breadth of London's rich musical landscape, employing a truly cosmopolitan line-up of cutting-edge players with deep international connections. Call it World Jazz, if you like. Alongside outstanding young jazz-rock guitarist Chris Montague, and firebrand drummer Dave Hamblett, the group also includes London-Bangladeshi pianist [...]1. Tower Casa 2. Kind Folk 3. Todi Or Not Todi 4. Candela 5. Round The Round It All 6. Everybody Elseó's Song 7. Motilda | | ... It's the sound of an adventurous composer and musical magpie, revealing the influences and ideas he has absorbed and synthesised throughout his travels. But here, more than ever before, we can also hear just how much of an influence jazz has begun to exert on his writing. "Halt the Busterman" hangs on a laid-back funk groove, with lazily meandering [...]1. Isthmus 2. Waiting For Javier 3. Luzern 4. Hallucigenia 5. Lullaby Of The Limpet / (For Ella) 6. Azalpho 7. Halt The Busterman 8. Wiwaxia 9. Double File [...] |
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