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“HOT HORNS + HEAVY PERCUSSION“, thats what it says on the Nomo Myspace site. Oh yes, do they live up to it. Minimalist keyboard loops, fuzzed-out bass, the odd soulful vocal, and then there’s the electric mbira (a Zimbabwean thumb piano also known in parts of Southern Africa as a kalimba), an electric sawblade gamelan […]

A long long time ago, in a reality that took it’s chances along with the rest of us, there was an amazing band called “Pentangle”. It consisted of a truly amazing collection of musicians; Bert Jansch and John Renbourn on guitars, vocalist Jacqui McShee and talented jazz rhythm section Danny Thompson on acoustic bass and […]

Allison Crowe is from Canada and has recently released her sixth album “Little Light”, now I will be honest and say I hadn’t heard of her until a friend mentioned her song “Disease” that is at http://www.myspace.com/allisoncrowe. We were discussing how dissonance can really add to a songs emotional impact. I championed Juliana Barwick […]

I don’t know about you but I am pretty sure that the first jazz I heard was in the old Looney Tunes cartoons that I watched after school. No big surprise there, everyone did. And it appears that today’s artist, Jeff Sanford obviously had a similar childood and still has a great affection for the […]

These guys are just a hoot. You don’t walk down the street so much as slip, slide, strut and saunter when The Gumbo Brothers pop up in the MP3 player. The grooves on this bands music are just deadly and there is a wonderful mix of jazz, funk, soul and reggae. When you hear these […]

The first time I heard Milk they were guests on a 3RRR live to air. They were charming. If you like “old time” folk/roots, you know banjo’s, ukuleles and tunes that swing so hard you wish you were a kid again… you are in for a treat. If the banjo’s gives you the odd cold […]

I spotted the name Sasha Dobson in a recent New York Times article and was intrigued by the combination of Folk and Jazz. A quick rummage through http://www.myspace.com/sashadobson turned up a killer track called “Modern Romance“. A gentle and almost whimsical piece, the vocal treatments remind me of “1234″ by Leslie Feist. Really nice guitars […]