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PETER SKELLERN – The Complete Island & Mercury Recordings

July 8, 2021

Mint Audio 2021 Best years of one of Blighty’s best, if often forgotten, singers anthologized, contextualized and prepared for guilty-pleasure scrutiny. England may have had its fair crop of crooners, yet none of them made any splash beyond the United … Continue reading →

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TOMMY CECIL & NATE NAJAR – American Melodies

May 20, 2021

Blue Line Music 2020 Classic tunes accessed afresh by two masters of jazz who escape fusion and find new meanings in familiar setting. Raiding the Great American Songbook has been quite a commonplace lately – to an extent where the … Continue reading →

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KALI TRIO – Loom

May 5, 2021

Ronin Rhythm 2021 Little band from Zürich outline the reach of their horizons and add silver lining to black clouds out there. Applying the “avant-garde” tag to this Swiss collective’s oeuvre would be a disservice to what they do, but … Continue reading →

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ANDREW COLYER – Mists Of Time

April 28, 2021

Inner Nova Music 2020 Art-rock ivories maven goes beyond the horizon in search of his innermost essence and brings it back for the public to marvel at. Although Andrew Colyer has been busy lately – his was one of Frank … Continue reading →

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SZYMON KLIMA, DOMINIK WANIA – Fantastico

April 10, 2021

Hevhetia 2020 Polish fantasy-fliers find solid rapport in the field of ultimate unpredictability. More than adept in entangling themselves in various ensembles, clarinet player Szymon Klima and pianist Dominik Wania have never recorded together, though, and the duo’s debut may … Continue reading →

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