Mattias De Craene | Black Koyo – Mattias De Craene | Black Koyo https://freq.org.uk/reviews/mattias-de-craene-black-koyo-mattias-de-craene-black-koyo/ Mattias brings his trademark textural sax and synth backdrops while Black Koyo bring the ritual chants […]
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Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band – The New Atomic https://freq.org.uk/reviews/fergs-atomic/ With getting on for forty people lined up to play covering trumpets, trombones and horns as well as reeds, viola, percussion and keyboards, their first album, The New Atomic […]
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Meatshell – The Elevator Child https://freq.org.uk/reviews/meatshell-elevator/ ..at about twenty-three minutes is over before you know it; but the ride is well worth the effort. Meatshell's ideas are varied and their vision limitless, and the fun they appear […]
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Linden Pomeroy – The Cat Sang Out https://freq.org.uk/reviews/linden-pomeroy-cat/ ...couches his clear, upbeat style over seven varying pieces that range from two to nine minutes and encompass blues, slide and Spanish inflections within a landscape of wide-open desert spaces. #guitar #musicreview
Jan Bang and Arve Henriksen – After The Wildfire https://freq.org.uk/reviews/bang-henriksen-wildfire/ ..takes the familiar drifting folklore-influenced #soundscapes and merges them with strings and voices for an unexpected journey. The album uses the live […]
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The Loft – Badges https://freq.org.uk/reviews/the-loft-badges/ The last forty years seem to have treated the members of the Loft well and with their musical history put through a prism of those years, the quality of the song-writing and playing shines through […]
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YHWH Nailgun – Magazine https://freq.org.uk/reviews/yhwh-nailgun-magazine/ A raucous revelry that burns solidly throughout, pokes the post-punk corpse, churns wildly industrial, sounds that hold well to that roughly-hued head of the cover that scars darkly […]
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Is This Thing On? https://freq.org.uk/reviews/is-this-thing-on/ ..operates on a smaller scale than previously, dealing with #standup comedians as opposed to rock stars (A Star Is Born) or master conductors (Maestro). Thus it feels like a return to the roots […]
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Hilary Jeffery – Green Prism: Music By Keith Tippett https://freq.org.uk/reviews/hilary-jeffery-green/ The initial impetus for Green Prism came from composer Hilary Jeffery asking the late Keith Tippett to compose some music for Berlin-based group Zinc & […]
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Masters Of The Universe https://freq.org.uk/reviews/masters-of-the-universe/ To their credit, the film-makers at least try to build a more interesting arc for its central character than the simplistic 1980s cartoon ever bothered with; then it blows up his […]
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