Karpfen From März April 2016

Sierra Hull has been recognized from age 11 as a virtuoso mandolin-player, astonishing audiences and fellow-musicians alike. Now a seasoned touring musician nearing her mid-20s, Hull has delivered her most inspired, accomplished, and mature recorded work to date; no small feat. Weighted Mind is a landmark achievement, not just in Sierra Hull's career, but in the world of folk-pop, bluegrass, and acoustic music overall. With instrumentation comprised largely of mandolin, bass, and vocals, this is genre-transcending music at its best, with production by Béla Fleck and special harmony vocal guests Alison Krauss, Abigail Washburn, and Rhiannon Giddens adding to the luster. Hull speaks eloquently, in her challenging and sensitive originals, her heartfelt vocals, and once again breaks new ground on the mandolin. Béla Fleck special guests on banjo on two tracks and duo partner, Ethan Jodziewicz, not only anchors the record on bass, but introduces us to a major new instrumental voice.

TEE is a present Japanese band, made of five musicians on keyboards, flute, guitar, bass and drums. The second opus "Trans-Europe Expression" (2011) could have been a tribute to Kraftwerk, but the music featured here is quite different. The recipe of the first album has been kept and bettered, an instrumental brand of Progressive jazz-rock fusion cooked with patience and talent. Let's just notice a new ingredient added for good measure on the track "Intersection": female voices, melodic to the bone. Here are six long pieces, to be tasted with pure enjoyment only! The title of the third album, "Tales Of Eternal Entities" (2016), remains faithful to the three letters making TEE. Faithful also to the musical style, the construction of the album (Six instrumental pieces), and of course, to the superior quality level dear to the Japanese band.

The inspiration behind Closer to the People was to get Tanita Tikaram closer to her road band: to record the singer/songwriter with a touring combo with serious blues and soul roots. Several of these players have done time with Van Morrison, a comparison that comes in handy for Closer to the People, not because her songs sound like Van's – they don't – but the record trades in jazz and soul influences while also spinning these familiar tropes into the realm of the personal. Tikaram specializes in sculpted, open-ended compositions – even when the tempo quickens her songs seem to unfold gracefully – and that means the hushed arrangements, underpinned by acoustic bass and brushed drums, seem like reflections of the song's soul.

Acclaimed Israeli born and New York based guitar virtuoso and composer Oz Noy creates intuitive, fluid sonic art suspended somewhere between blues anguish, rock power and the rich harmonic density of jazz. Noy has performed, toured and recorded with many acclaimed artists including Chris Botti, Harry Belafonte, Cyndi Lauper, Clay Aiken, Nile Rogers, Allman Brothers, Phillip Phillips, Matisyahu, Jennifer Hudson, Don Henley, Michael Buble, Josh Groban, Paul Shaffer, Steven Tyler, Sting and Allison Krauss. Noy is celebrating the release of his forthcoming album 'Who Gives A Funk.'

The whiskey-drinkin’, beer guzzlin' bros in Hammer Fight were spawned from Atlantic City, New Jersey! Showcasing a brazen approach to their sound, and therefore it hardly matters if you call it thrash`n`roll or hard rockin‘ heavy metal: positively filthy rock meets gloriously sublime classic metal, thrash, speed, punk and hardcore on debut album Profound and profane! Snotty like the Cancer Bats and Zeke, and a second later worshipping at Lemmy`s altar – Hammer Fight don`t just defy all boundaries, they set them on fire and piss on the ashes…

Huis ("home doors" in french, and "house" in dutch). This is a very appropriate name for the band that comes out of Montreal, Quebec Canada. Their beautiful atmospheres and great rhythm sections make you feel right at home with their music and compositions. Their 2016 release "Neither In Heaven" is a solid confirmation of how music can more than just move a person but make them feel at home within the album or project.
Coming off the heals of their previous album of 2014 "Despite Guardian Angels", the band has returned with a much more atmospheric and darker composition that is "Neither In Heaven". For a band that appears as neo-progressive on the surface, Huis certainly has a whole other side that is out right dark and heavy…

Insurgentes is the first full-length solo album released by Steven Wilson. The album was recorded all over the world in studios from Mexico City to Japan and Israel, between January and August 2008, and first released in November 2008 as a special deluxe multi disc mail order version. A retail release followed in February 2009. The album is named after the Avenida de los Insurgentes, the longest avenue in Mexico City near which part of it was recorded.

Stan Getz - Moments In Time (2016) {Resonance Records HCD-2020 rec 1976}
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Jazz / Post Bop / West Coast Jazz / Cool / Saxophone

Recorded the same week as Getz/Gilberto '76, Resonance Records' companion album, 2016's Moments in Time, captures saxophonist Stan Getz performing live at San Francisco's Keystone Korner in May 1976. To celebrate the release of Getz's reunion album with Brazilian singer/guitarist João Gilberto, 1976's The Best of Two Worlds, the saxophonist booked a week of shows at the Keystone backed by his quartet and featuring Gilberto. Whereas Getz/Gilberto '76 showcases the Gilberto performances, Moments in Time finds Getz appearing alone with his band, featuring pianist Joanne Brackeen, drummer Billy Hart, and bassist Clint Houston. Despite the wealth and fame he accumulated from his initial 1960s bossa nova albums, Getz remained a creatively restless, forward-thinking artist over the coming years.

The Seraphim Trio makes a welcome return to ABC Classics with an album of Beethoven's piano trios. Beethoven's trios are amongst the finest works in the chamber canon, taking the form spawned by Mozart and Haydn and developing it into a musical genre which reached symphonic proportions in its musical language and virtuosity.