By Sidsel Endresen and Bugge Wesseltoft, two Norweigan musicians. If you like Portishead, shades of Massive Attack, the trippy side of life, then take a listen. It’s too good not to share.
Chanced upon it on a compilation of Nordic jazz. If you’re subscribed to eMusic the whole album is currently free.
Plenty of crackers and good for the summer:
Lemon Jelly – Page One (lemonjelly.ky)
Felix Laband – Whistling in Tongues (Dark Days Exit)
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra – Sister (Who is This America?)
Acoustic Ladyland – Iggy (Last Chance Disco)
Jaga Jazzist – I Could Have Killed Him in the Sauna (The Stix)
Jimmy Smith – The Cat (The Cat)
Rodrigo y Gabriela [...]
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
I was going to write something about friends in Portsmouth and Gloucester and how my last week was awesome, but then I ran most of the way home from the pub and my chest decided to hate me. THEN I turned on Masada’s Live in Sevilla and was completely caught out by the utter [...]
Lovely little collection of jazz quotes at photomatt.net .. some of my favourites being:
Playing bop is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
(.. implying that you need to get rhythm down to score well?)
Those songs to me don’t exist, you know? “So What” or Kind of Blue, I’m not going to play that shit, [...]
I sit in my room and read books for nerdy children (apparently the walls of the Taj Mahal are filled with rubble, the marble is just a facade), look at a few hundred CDs and have to pinch my mum’s cheap player as I’ve none of my own, play Mortal Kombat’s puzzle mode over-and-over and [...]
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Saw the Esbjörn Svensson Trio on Sunday night at the Usher Hall, I hadn’t been quite so excited about a gig in a long time! After the brilliance of the show at the Barbican in 2005 I knew what to expect and I had that strange nervous chill that only gets you when you [...]
The one event you’ve spent the last few weeks waiting for sells out, the one person you’d like to talk to leaves without saying goodbye. Try to type and the words won’t form. Turn the bass up a bit, let bleeps take you away.