Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with SOYUZ featuring Asha Puthli & Sven Wunder
Greg fenton reviews SOYUZ featuring Asha Puthli & Sven Wunder – Spring Has Sprung – Mr Bongo What a wonderful piece of music weaving spells while causally casting emotions across landscapes of maybes. It may not really matter if the title refers to the delicate vibrancy of spring or the blast of summer heat as…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Heaven Sent: The Rise Of New Pop 1979-1983
Greg Fenton reviews Heaven Sent: The Rise Of New Pop 1979-1983 – Cherry Red Records Coined by Paul Morley the term New Pop is not one I cherish sounding a little too contrived, too smooth to taste. Although, as with all these things labels stick with a certain accuracy. Words aside I love a lot…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Ramin Rezaie
Greg fenton reviews Ramin Rezaie – Folks Get Down – NAIMA This is an easy fit when the shining sun feels perfect and the sky is crystal blue. Although I guess the immortal words, Everybody Loves The Sunshine could feel right anytime as this classic vocal line and hot keys seal the deal. Ramin Rezaie’s…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Ujin
Greg Fenton reviews Ujin – A Story Behind – Zapped Records A Story Behind is first and foremost about the connection and interplay between heavy-duty drums and bass as they punch out vigorous rhythms together in unison. But scratch below the surface and there is also a wealth of more subtle information going on like…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Other Light Ensemble
Greg Fenton reviews Other Light Ensemble – Body of Ritual Tapestry – Blue Tapes If you feel that this kind of improvised, free-flowing wealth of sound bouncing crazily off atoms might tempt you into an altogether more adventurous state of mind then please, press play. After all, what have you got to lose? Apart from…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Roots Rock Rebels – When Punk Met Reggae 1975-1982
Greg Fenton reviews Roots Rock Rebels – When Punk Met Reggae 1975-1982 – Cherry Red Records Another brilliantly realised compilation from the team at Cherry Red readily captures that sense of creative excitement, as if anything could happen – and it did – in the highly charged atmospheres surrounding the late seventies to the early…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Joep Beving & Maarten Vos
Greg Fenton reviews Review with Joep Beving & Maarten Vos – vision of contentment – LEITER Pianist Joep Beving and cellist Maarten Vos have created awe-inspiring pieces of music carved out in emotional brilliance, resounding across styles and genre definitions, each cutting straight to the heart of the matter. In the end, it’s simply how…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with WAPO Jije
Greg Fenton reviews WAPO Jije – Motionless – Stay True Sounds Stay True Sounds has that rare ability to capture the qualities of tradition while infusing their music with contemporary zeal. This gorgeous, exceptional slice of sound fuses a deep reflection of gospel-inspired chords, an unhurried pace of shuffling drums, plus a heady celebration of…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Auguste Safar & Raphael Graham
Greg Fenton reviews Auguste Safar & Raphael Graham – ZA RIA EP – 366 DAYS If music is worth more than endless snare rolls and tired old disco samples then it must say something of note by connecting to synergy that is proactive and contemporary. Auguste Safar and Raphael Graham’s inaugural 366 DAYS record has…