Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Eddy Romero
Greg Fenton reviews Eddy Romero – Busy Monday – Expmental Records Feeling like you are taking a deep plunge into the cool blue of unchartered waters Busy Monday is resplendent with calming atmospheres yet underpinned by a pounding series of beats alongside crisp hats. This is a fine, immersive production by Eddy Romero to find…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Cher
Greg Fenton reviews Cher – C1M3R4_Analog cut_v3 – Arthouse Traian Chereches aka Cher tackles future scenarios amid the prospect of ecological disaster via the first release of his new imprint across six bold pieces of significant music. As much experimental as it is charged with the radical influence of jazz and the heavy use of…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Dennis Bovell and Friends
Greg Fenton reviews Dennis Bovell & Friends: Different – The Singles Collection 1977 -1981 – Doctor Bird Engaging with the music of Dennis Bovell is like breathing in the sound of romance. To extend the metaphor further into the embrace of music translated as ripples of deep emotion. There’s something unique about the tone and…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Middle Earth The Soundtrack
Greg Fenton reviews Music Review with Middle Earth The Soundtrack of London’s Legendary Psychedelic Club 1967-1969 – Cherry Red Records Opening in Covent Garden in August 1967 seems like aeons ago but the brilliant palette splashed across the feast of music played there still reverberates in the here and now. If it doesn’t this compilation…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Fluxion
Greg Fenton reviews Fluxion – Haze – Vibrant Music Fluxion’s musical passages wander through a landscape filled with wide open spaces touching depth at the point of relief. Influences are important to inform your interpretation of what you seek to capture. So the touches of wavy jazz, cool ambience and Detroit’s classic techno all breathe…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Whatever The Weather
Greg Fenton reviews Whatever The Weather – Whatever The Weather II – Ghostly International Listening to the second album from Whatever The Weather is like reading a book where words are translated as sounds and electronic discourse plugs directly into your soul. Soul, meaning the human experience with all that entails from low to high…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Grand River
Greg Fenton reviews Grand River – Tuning The Wind – Umor Rex Complex yet bold beauty in simplicity is the key here as accumulating samples of the wind blow hot and cold across an expansive 36-plus minutes and have been accompanying a series of live installations that are now released as music in its own…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Sulk Rooms
Greg Fenton reviews Sulk Rooms – Take A Look At God’s Face – SUBEXOTIC This is the soundtrack to 2022’s Take A Look At God’s Face written and directed by Jack Laurance, featuring a composition of sounds by Thomas Ragsdale aka Sulk Rooms. You could say the music scores a simmering, malcontent etched out by…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Adrian Younge
Greg Fenton reviews Adrian Younge – Ainda Preciso do Sol – Linear Labs The complimenting bassline is as crisp as the snare drum pushing through the dew of winter grey while the effortless piano talks up a world of cinema swinging across a series of black and white keys. Then there are the vocals in…