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Pure loveliness. Proper music-making,
DIY Classical, but nothing slapdash or self-aggrandising. Intimate and tentative, seamed with risk, occasional mis-steps, dodgy tuning, minor technical fuck-ups; but with a gripping, stilled dedication and deep musical understanding.
Double bass, electric guitar, flute, melodica, singing; recorded at home in NYC, on dodgy gear, with a snug, woody, shhshh-ing, analogue-style ambience.
The trio hovers between cheerful relish — who’s that giggling at the back —and hushed, humble reverence, basking in the processes of musical communion and learning. They play like they are gingerly passing on a precious, fragile gift; but without conceit.
Luminous selections from the last six hundred years — John of Dunstable meets Friedrich Nietzsche — lovingly arranged by the group, with a bent for stripped-to-the-bone, emotionally restrained sublimity, steady as she blows.
Soul food.
The triumphant revival of this humdinger, forty years after the original version, released on JA/UK label One Love.
Expertly recorded at Tuff Gong, and just around the corner from us in Ladbroke Grove, this is Black-Atlantic, one-drop majesty, with Rasta drumming, resplendent horns, and thunderous dub. Queen Sharon is so nice she nails it twice.
Painfully timely. Mash up creation and look what happens.
Now on vinyl. Click through for the new LP artwork.
Irresistible tropical psych-funk by Colombian sisters Elia and Elizabeth Fleta.
Drawn from just a handful of recordings, between 1972 and 1973, accompanied by Jimmy Salcedo and his group La Onda Tres.