The “Inside…” series is as simple as it is flexible. Since 2020 it has allowed an “outstanding artist from the Berlin avant-garde / progressive / experimental jazz scene” to select and present a project. For its second series of “Inside…” [...]
Punjab means ‘five rivers’. In early 2020 bass player and composer Shez Raja travelled with his father to the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent to explore his roots, personally and musically. He went into the studio with some of [...]
Icelandic guitarist Mikael Máni’s second album Nostalgia Machine is a crossover work of confidently understated melodic refinement. The text accompanying Mikael Máni’s new album says that in his music the young guitarist “aims to portray how the emotions felt while [...]
The Jazz Sanctuary is a monthly music event in South West London which brings together established and emerging artists from the UK jazz scene. Promoter/organiser Sarah Meyer talked to AJ Dehany about a club that’s now making surprising and confident [...]
I used to switch the lights off and listen to the Velvet Underground in the pitch black darkness, as teenagers must. The dark sound world of improvising trio Ill-Considered makes me want to do the same. With characteristic intensity, the [...]
Mercury is the planet that is said to rule communication, and Mercury presides over trumpeter and composer Emma-Jean Thackray’s first full-length album Yellow as one of a pantheon of planets, gods and influences that formulate its central theme, that of [...]
Over a century since Tristan Tzara stuck his mitt in a dictionary and pulled out the word Dada, the absurdist artistic movement originating in Zürich has brought nonsense and the freedom from sense to a world suffering from too much [...]
AJ Dehany remembers the 2019 edition and looks forward to dipping a toe back in the water of music festivals: Styling itself as a Scottish Supernormal, the delayed third edition of the Jupiter Rising mini-festival is coming on 28-29 August. [...]
