We discovered Guillaume Poncelet on YouTube, totally randomly. He is a composer, trumpet and piano player, born in 1978 in Grenoble, France. Music media characterize him as a minimalist neoclassical musician. His music videos blow us away. Simple melodies played softly on upright piano with its...
This week’s theme: Sonny Rollins on the Impulse label. Featured artists include Sonny Rollins, Tommy Flanagan, Bob Cranshaw, Billy Higgins, Mickey Roker, Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison, Oliver Nelson, Kenny Burrell, Roger Kellaway, Ray Bryant, Walter Booker, Mickey RokerThe post Podcast: Sonny Rollins on Impulse first appeared on jazzcollector.com.
Thanks so much to Julie for the interview! I’ve always been very curious about The Crimson Mints. I have heard one of their songs, “Makes Me Want To”, that appeared on the compilation “Positively Teenage” that came with the This Almighty Pop! fanzine back in the day. I thought it was brilliant. So I wrote about the band, the few details I knew at the time, on the blog. During the years I’ve tried to interview the band members and find more information. Happily Julie, the band main songwriter…
Sun in the treetops as the tanager revisits his hit song, no longer in heavy rotation. A firefly sails past with his light off.
Day Three in Nagoya. No new kyujo to report. Maezumo kicked off today. Eisei, the Minato-beya recruit from Leeds and on the left in the video below, looked solid with a force out win over Yamaguchi. The NHK coverage on JME.tv included clips from Maezumo, so you will see it in the replays today on … Continue reading Nagoya 2026: Day Three
Not counting last year’s cracking, and comprehensive Lapsus boxset compilation “Where Things Are Hollow: No Tomorrow”, I think this is Pye Corner Audio’s first long-player, and first physical release, since 2022’s essential “Let’s Emerge!” “More Songs About The Sun” sort of picks up where its predecessor left off. That set was a kosmische, kinda ambient journey, building and peaking with the final driving number “Warmth Of The Sun”. It surfed arpeggios and pulses but was beatless. Here, now,…
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all your heroes die deaths of over exposure or scattered obscurity, even the ones who made crossroad deals with the devil in the pale moonlight; they die doing what they love, their fans old & sad & grasping too hard at past straws, the groupies now throwing support bras & popping arthritis pills, riding home on mobility scooters soon to be abandoned in empty parking lots & yes, sometimes the singer forgets to move his lips to the lyrics but that's a small price to pay for glimpsing a memory…
Here’s the setlist for my Inhailer.com show yesterday. Channel Tres – Black Techno Guy Genesis Owusu – LIFE KEEPS GOING The Cure – A Forrest Dinosaur Jr. – Several Got Away Kim Gordon – DIRTY TECH Bush Tetras – Can’t...
Released in 2000 by Universal Music France in collaboration with ECM Records, Horizons was conceived as a promotional introduction to a catalogue that had long resisted easy classification. Rather than assembling familiar peaks, it traces a quieter borderland where jazz, folk traditions, chamber music, and improvisation exchange passports without surrendering their origins. The collection leans toward ECM’s acoustic and global currents, yet its real subject is passage between cultures and…
NYC, June 2026 It has been a looooong time since I wrote in my blog. Maybe it's time to give my blog some music. Check out the jazz that the bustling NYC metropolitan public transportation makes here: www.trainjazz.com I rode on a subway for the first time ever last June, and I am fascinated by the coordination that happens behind the scene. This is a perfect visualization to it. Cheers to NYC MTA, and to free bus! Khoa. Reply to this post
Tokyo’s musbime are relative newcomers, having been active only since 2024, but have already made an impression with their debut EP 煌めきを凌いで (Brave The Blinding), which came out in late April. Like most of their peers, shoegaze is only one of the genres they’ve absorbed into their sound – there’s math in the guitar lines, […] The post musbime -『流星群のあと』 appeared first on Space Echo.
Wild & Frantic Official CD (Denmark, 1995) Wild & Frantic, as the title suggests; on Official Records contrary to the name suggests
A few weeks ago I joined Jared to record a new episode of his Dead Code podcast, and now it’s out — go have a listen! Jared’s titles never disappoint, and I feel it’s only appropriate that “Bloom of the Undying” take the place of honour as the title for these weeknotes. After all the effort to get Hanami 3.0 out the door, this week I’m having a break. I’ve travelled to Adelaide with my wife and kids to spend some time with my parents. It’s a rainy winter week here, but we’ve all been having a…
Resavoir - Themes for DreamsThis one slipped out with little fanfare (at least as far as I could tell!) earlier this spring, but don’t let it slip on by. I’ve loved all of Will Miller’s Resavoir LPs; Themes for Dreams might be my favorite so far. As its title suggests, dreamy sounds abound, heading into a kind of undiscovered soul/chamber jazz territory, intimate and intricate, mixing warm keys with ravishing strings, modular synths with pedal steel. Even though Miller calls Themes “a…
Good morning! Saturday, I talked a little bit about two music “hot takes” I have. At the risk of sounding like a broken record (sorrynotsorry), there’s a third: I’m not especially fond of Nirvana’s In Utero. Writing about the record in 2023, I noted: Part of that incuriosity was down to my insufferable gatekeeping mindset back then, but the reality was this: I had first heard the songs from Bleach live before I heard them on cassette. I can remember how “Negative Creep” was introduced as…
The last couple of weeks have been hectic, but afforded me a few good opportunities to listen. There’s nothing like long flights, restless jet lagged afternoons, and protracted editing sessions to free up time to listen to music. I’ll generally listen to anything that William Parker and Matthew Shipp dream up and their most recent album, Synesthesia (2026), with Ivo Perelman on sax and Bobby Kapp on drums is a good one and a provocative follow up to their 2019 album Ineffable Joy. Perelman…
Day Two in Nagoya. A wild boar is on the loose, attacking salarymen. However, no new kyujo to report. In Makushita, Asahifuji defeated Kaiseijo with a kotenage, video below courtesy of Abema’s Twitter feed. Calm and collected. His competition is getting stiff but Asahifuji is still racking up solid wins. He will face Otsuji tomorrow. … Continue reading Nagoya 2026: Day Two
In this Monday Pressing Concerns, we’re looking at new albums from Hurry and William Matheny as well as new EPs from TIFFY and Twin Bloom. This also would’ve more or less been last Thursday’s Pressing Concerns if I’d been able to post a “normal” one (I’ve been experiencing computer difficulties lately, which has impacted the blog schedule a little bit). I’m hoping to get things back on track this week, though. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what…
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Che bello, che fatica, che caldo, che tuoni! Bellissimo concertone, bellissimo goderselo con Efi e Zel e beh, dopo qualche mese ho rivisto Michele e soci quindi non posso che essere contento!
"Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song makes you feel nostalgic for a time you never lived through? - Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and His Comets The first few seasons of Happy Days, a must watch TV show about a family in the 1950s, this tune was the theme song (until the producers got tired of paying for it and wrote their own.) I'm pretty sure it was also used in American Graffiti. View Lou…
Music is my safe space. It always has been. No matter what life had in store for me, there was always an album that made everything feel a little better. And that hasn’t changed.
On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all. ▰ There’s upstream, and then there’s up upstream. As you find your curiosity pulling you deeper into the making of music, you take pleasures in demos of new functionality for pre-existing gear. A “no-talking” (YouTube category of demo) performance for a couple minutes on an instrument…
Hey people! Can you imagine that I’ve just slept through almost two entire days?! :O I’m not entirely sure how it happened myself. I was just not feeling too great, physically I mean; I went to bed Friday night, and I woke up on Saturday at 5 PM, with a migraine. So then I fell asleep again, until 8 AM today, at which point the migraine was gone but instead I was having hypoglycaemia from not having eaten for two days (I get that sometimes because of having septo-optic dysplasia). But my family…
Dinner Jazz With ECM is a fascinating anomaly in the label’s history. Released in 2011, the compilation did not emerge from a conventional studio project or from Manfred Eicher’s austere curatorial imagination. It was assembled through a partnership between ECM, Universal Music Canada, and the Canadian radio station JAZZ.FM91, where host and music director Brad Barker had cultivated a popular evening program under the same title. Barker selected some of the catalog’s most accessible and…
Wonderful words by the ever erudite Adam Turner. Konformer come from Nuremberg, a city steeped in all kinds of history. The three piece band – synths, bass and drums – make music that recalls the culture of West Germany in the late 1960s and 70s, the motorik and kosmische sounds of Neu!, La Dusselfdorf, Harmonia and Cluster. The fun of the autobahn. Their second album, Konformer II, is 6 tracks long and has a geography / travel theme with numbers named after Mont Ventoux, Marseille, Todmorden,…
I am teaching two new NYU classes this fall. One of them is History of 20th Century American Popular Music, which I wrote about recently. The other is Pop Music Analysis for Non-Majors. I enjoy teaching new classes, even though they require a lot more work than teaching an existing class. The history class takes significant prep on my part, but it isn’t difficult work, because I know why people are taking the class and what we’re expected to teach them: in addition to factual information about…
Today at Crucial Tracks: Sabotage, by Beastie Boys What’s your go-to song for getting ready in the morning? This is more of a gotta go, gotta go now kind of song, but it’s definitely right for some kind of mornings.
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 22nd May 2006 When I wrote about Swedish blackened death metallers Necrophobic back in 2023 for the anniversary of their classic debut record ‘The Nocturnal Silence’ in 1993, I mentioned that I first got into them on their 2006 record, ‘Hrimthursum’, a record that appeared at the perfect time for my expanding music taste of that era, with its fluid songwriting, serpentine riffs and insatiably memorable songs. Well, thankfully the time has come to revisit…
