Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
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DJ Counselling – Inside a Blue Cube EP – Shall Not Fade
When pain subsides and the drug finishes its intended use Tramadol finds a whole host of other games to play. Given it’s an opiate that’s probably not surprising. That was my experience anyway, which I only mention as the side effects produced by the drug likewise fuelled the imagination of DJ Counselling who remarkably manged…
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Tibi Dabo – Vista – Crosstown Rebels
The playful sense of being rebellious neatly criss-crosses this album from Tibi Dabo adding sounds where you wouldn’t always expect them, while combining an exciting array of influences, then transforming them all into his own unique way of thinking. So much so that every track may, or may not, suit your taste. If little else…
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Afterlife – Timeframes – Subatomic UK
The inescapable difference between the music produced by Afterlife and that of so many others in this field is simply depth of musical vision. Found in places and locations where you can truly lose yourself in. Plus enquiry, such is the obvious thirst for knowledge. You can feel it as each layer unfolds, each weaving…
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Pheek – Dummu – Archipel Musique Canada
A world of words to get lost in. Dummn is hard to describe simply because its unique nature of sounds connect more directly with your subconscious, diving into the surreal, rather that the obvious world right before your eyes. Like a private conversation, albeit one in a profoundly unsettling, shaking your foundations, kind of way.…
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Loraine James – Gentle Confrontation – Hyperdub
Loraine James translates life into five broken pieces, reconfigures the blame, then reassembles fragments of hope and despair in an equal, yet uneven order. If I was a typical music journalist it might well say that Gentle Confrontation is an album of significant importance, both as part of being human and that of living somewhere…
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Joao Paulo Esteves da Silva Trio – The River – Arjunamusic Records
Joāo Paulo Esteves da Silva’s sublime sprinkle of piano keys sing out like an enchanting evenings chorus on the album’s beginning The House Behind, sounding all at once inspired, eloquent and most gently persuasive. Accompanied notably by both the cool twang of Mário Franco’s hot, double-bass alongside the punctuating language of Samuel Rohrer’s free flowing…
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Simon McCorry – I the Storm – See Blue Audio
Entering Simon McCorry’s world of sound is much like entering a series of different rooms where each contains its own suggestion. This latest collection of works for the esteemed See Blue Audio has the artist explore the aftereffects of serious challenges which life can so easily throw in your direction, knocking you off-center, lending each…
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Vince Watson – Another Moment In Time – Everysoul
Like reconnecting with an old friend Another Moment In Time follows up on the promise given by Moments In Time some twenty years previous to this latest continuation of the concept. I guess what immediately strikes you here is the sheer depth of emotion the music touches upon throughout each consecutive number, so much so…
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Chogori – Minor Green – Modularfield
One, begins this long player by Minor Green fizzing via a series of gentle shocks softening the blows of turbulent lifetimes in its wake. Serene yet driven by an unquiet, uneasy underbelly the music continues probing within, while suggesting a lively escape into an unknown pleasure, always charged by the passion for what could be…