New music
Spring Quartet, BarbicanTuesday, 08 April 2014
In the 1960s and early 70s drummer Jack DeJohnette, now 71, was learning his craft with nearly everyone who was anyone, including Coltrane, Monk, Keith Jarrett and Miles Davis. Last night at the Barbican, he was the presiding spirit (if not,... Read more... |
Listed: Hauschka's Abandoned CitiesMonday, 07 April 2014
Hauschka is a musician and composer from Düsseldorf, performing in what has been dubbed a "post-classical" vein, although he also has many fans in the electronica scene. His new album Abandoned City, written and performed almost entirely on a... Read more... |
CD: EMA - The Future's VoidMonday, 07 April 2014
Erika M Anderson’s dystopian follow-up to 2011’s critically acclaimed Past Life Martyred Saints was always going to be prescient, but in the end even she was taken by surprise. “Facebook just bought the company that makes … the VR headset I am... Read more... |
Evan Parker: 70th-Birthday Celebration, Kings PlaceSunday, 06 April 2014
John Coltrane’s extravagant, trance-like saxophone-playing is often considered the pinnacle of jazz technique, but for Evan Parker, who celebrated his 70th birthday with a concert at Kings Place last night, it was only the starting point. In an... Read more... |
Interview: Karol Conka - a shiny new rap star from BrazilSunday, 06 April 2014
Three years ago Karol Conka was a receptionist. Since then she had made a living from her music and, with the launch of her first international album Batukfreak, (“Beat-freak”, more or less) is making waves internationally. But that doesn’t tell you... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Estonia: Freedom and Music Thrive in the Shadow of Putin’s RussiaSunday, 06 April 2014
“Art, real art, is a denial of the status quo. A tradition that values the role of the individual.” Speaking in Estonia’s capital for the opening of Tallinn Music Week, the Baltic country’s President Toomas Hendrik Ilves is referring to what’s just... Read more... |
Reissue CDs Weekly: Gram ParsonsSunday, 06 April 2014
Gram Parsons: The Early Years Vol 1 & 2Without Gram Parsons, The Rolling Stones could not have transformed themselves into what they became in the late Sixties and early Seventies. The bond between the South Carolina-born walking... Read more... |
CD: SOHN - TremorsSunday, 06 April 2014
It’s kind of a shame that for whatever reason (presumably SEO), Vienna-based producer and singer SOHN (formerly known as S O H N) had to drop the spaces in between the letters of his name. As well as a self-conscious aesthetic flourish, it was after... Read more... |
Celebrating Jon Lord, Royal Albert HallSaturday, 05 April 2014
Jon Lord may have tickled his last ivory in 2012, but last night his spirit lived defiantly on. The great and the good from both heavy and contemporary music gathered in his memory. It was for a serious purpose - to raise funds for pancreatic cancer... Read more... |
The New Arts Desk Radio Show 3Friday, 04 April 2014
Yes, Peter and Joe are back, with a humdinger of a show this time, once again recorded in the insalubrious but highly conducive surrounds of Hoxton's MeatMISSION burger bar.Their continued explorations of the past, present and future of cross-... Read more... |
CD: Aloe Blacc - Lift Your SpiritFriday, 04 April 2014
Aloe Blacc is at a crossroads. The 35-year-old Californian soul singer arrived slowly via the hip hop underground and Peanut Butter Wolf’s smart Stones Throw label, then blew up with the monster hit “I Need A Dollar”, which will surely be used as a... Read more... |
CD: Afghan Whigs - Do to the BeastThursday, 03 April 2014
About 25 years ago, the Cult decided that they were going to turn the punk/alternative crowd onto “classic rock”. While they were widely derided by most of the music press of the time, they did manage to increase their record sales immeasurably. The... Read more... |
