Alan Braufman: “I’m still trying to clarify that sound”
From hearing Sun Ra and Pharoah Sanders as a teenager to 501 Canal Street, the rediscovery of ‘Valley of Search’ and the new ‘Anthem for Peace’, Alan Braufman...
Jan Lankisch Interview | How Marshall Allen’s ‘New Dawn’ Came Together
There were only two afternoons. Marshall Allen had turned 100 two days earlier, the musicians were gathered in a Philadelphia studio, and Jan Lankisch still had no real...
Makara Interview | Bangkok’s Neo-Molam Trio Find Their Own Sound
Makara didn’t really become a proper band until their third album. Before that, Q had already made music under the name, often working alone and recording at home...
Fountain Return with ‘It’s Ordinary’ Following ‘Big Bag of New Nothings’ EP
Northampton duo Fountain are back with ‘It’s Ordinary,’ their first new music since the ‘Big Bag of New Nothings’ EP earlier this year, and the beginning of another...
Beth Cameron Steps Out Under Her Own Name with ‘The World. Oh No.’
Beth Cameron has spent more than twenty years making music under different names, from Fair Verona and Forget Cassettes to Eliza the Arrow and Black Bra. ‘The World....
Lewis Shiner Interview: The Author of ‘Glimpses’ on Music, Fiction and a Life in Writing
From Austin punk clubs and the first stirrings of cyberpunk to 'Glimpses', Brian Wilson and the lost music of the 1960s, Lewis Shiner looks back on more than...
Leszek Możdżer Interview: Miłość, Chopin, Komeda and the Decaphonic Piano
Ahead of his appearance at the Polish Jazz Festival in London, Leszek Możdżer looks back on Miłość and the early yass years, his encounters with Chopin and Komeda,...
EABS Interview: From Wrocław Beat Sessions to Komeda, Sun Ra and Stańko
As EABS prepare to open the Polish Jazz Festival in London, Marek 'Latarnik' Pędziwiatr talks about the beginnings of the group in Wrocław, making beats from records, Komeda,...
Denny Zeitlin: Jazz Pianist, Composer and Psychiatrist on a Life of Improvisation
Denny Zeitlin is an American pianist, composer, improviser and psychiatrist who has, for more than six decades, sustained two demanding careers in parallel. Born in Chicago in 1938,...
Sacred Buzz Share ‘Nothing to Hide’ from Upcoming Self-Titled Album
Sacred Buzz found the setting for ‘Nothing to Hide’ at the foot of one of Berlin’s stranger buildings, a huge concrete structure in Adlershof that looks a little...