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Jasper H?iby: Fellow Creatures: We Must Fight

by Andrew Hunter
Fellow Creatures is the band that bassist Jasper Høiby has assembled around himself and they are clearly a talented bunch. They would have to be, to revisit material from H?iby's previous band, Phronesis. That trio of H?iby, Anton Eger and Ivo Neame were almost hyperbolically highly regarded. A quick internet search will show how well reviewed they were, not only amongst the jazz cognoscenti, but also in the mainstream media. Much of the material on this record was ...
Continue ReadingLīva Dumpe: Tālskatis

by Troy Dostert
Sometimes things are seen more clearly from a distance. That is the underlying conviction animating Tālskatis, the debut release from Latvian vocalist Līva Dumpe. Tālskatis" is the Latvian term for a monocular, and the quest for vision, whether personal or political, permeates the album. Dumpe's own creative perspective was shaped in part by a move to the Netherlands and her studies at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, which has allowed her to bring a thoroughly modern musical sensibility to her art, ...
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