Dorothy Bird’s debut album is here…. Let’s do this. Galaxy This is a short instrumental, you could almost call this the prelude to the project, it’s lovely piano piece with what I am assuming is a cello, it’s gorgeous and just whisks you away… and just like that we are …
Blog interview: Alex Roberts
Hello Alex how are you? Great thanks, it’s a beautiful crisp Autumnal day. My favourite season. Love seeing the colours turn. Congratulations on the release of “Love And Supernatural” how does it feel? Like a mighty strong wind in the sails. I’m proud of this collection of songs and very happy that they’re reaching new …
Blog interview: Monique DeBose. Words: Sammy Stein
Revealing Monique DeBose American award-winning singer Monique DeBose’s album ‘You Are The Sovereign One,’ released in September 2022, has received much attention and stellar reviews. Well, it might, for Monique has a unique voice. She studied under Rhiannon and Joey Blake who worked with the renowned Bobby McFerrin. Her work stems and blossoms from a …
Blog interview: Rilo Wye
Congratulations on the release of “Better For Whatever Reason”, how does it feel? Thank you! It honestly feels really great. I’ve been doing music for a long time and mostly collaborating with other artists. I’ve had the idea of a solo project for some time now but it always felt elusive. It’s hard to believe …
Blog interview: Tania Smith
Hello Tania, how are you? Hi Del, I’m wonderful, Thanks so much for having me. Congratulations on the release of “Jungleflower” how does it feel? It always feels great to release new music. It has been a while between albums, and they were released under the artist names SpaceJunky and Crystal Gypsy. This will be …
Single Review: “Another Life Goes By” – Christone Kingfish Ingram and Big K.R.I.T.
Kingfish is back with another track, a remix of a song from his album “662” – and what a song! Over a sparse beat Kingfish wonders where does the hate come from, along with his signature guitar playing giving the real blues flavour. He sounds fantastic here and he doesn’t let up. The first verse …
Blog interview: Fascination Curve
Congratulations on the release of Corona Time In Amerika, how does it feel? It is a culmination of a lot of different musical genre interests, a lot of different social and political circumstances here in the US and it is the ultimate pandemic production….an album which brought the musicians in the band together at a …
Album Review: “Everything Left Unsaid” Triple O
Inheritance This track is so soulful, it’s got all the right ingredients of a gospel hip hop track and so much more… I love the piano progression on this. Triple O’s voice is a London accent, and he enunciates carefully like a preacher should, he speaks over the beat carefully so that every …
Review: The Comet Is Coming “Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam. Words: Sammy Stein
The Comet Is Coming, Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam ( Impulse 23 Sept 2022) The Comet is Coming comprises Danalogue on Rolands, Betamax on drums and percussion, and Shabaka Hutchins ( King Shabaka) on tenor saxophone. Since their entry into what was sometimes a disingenuous jazz scene, The Comet Is Coming has brought a reality, a street-centered, squarely-planted …
Single Review: “Rain” – BaggE
Oh wow. The first thing that kicks this off is a glissando down a piano, transporting you back in time with some retro funky flavours… It’s like I ran down a giant piano to be plonked into to the late 1970s…. First off this sounds a bit like EWF without the horns, very much a …