Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with John Haycock
Greg Fenton reviews John Haycock – Resonance – Before I Die I couldn’t let summer pass me by without talking up this record. When music is long for a reason, as is the case here with Reasonance, it can say a thousand words. John Haycock’s drifting, movable landscapes of sound signify change and possibility –…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Sasha
Greg Fenton reviews Sasha – How To Wear Raybans Well – Last Night On Earth Apart from the blazingly obvious, brilliant title How To Wear Raybans Well captures the fizz of urgency and that probing excitement of contemporary art realized as sonic release. An instrumental that speaks for itself, driven by keys lifting and falling…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Loleatta Holloway
Greg Fenton reviews Loleatta Holloway – We’re Getting Stronger – SoulMusic Records (SMR) Catching up on some summer releases not to be missed. Let’s begin with this brilliant compilation from the singer who needs little or no introduction. Her soul-saving voice has graced a string-filled array of classic numbers across the Disco cannon featured on…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with GAS
Greg Fenton reviews GAS – GAS – Kompakt 491 Time travels fast and lose these days and this welcome reissue of GAS from 1996 is timely and significantly provides enough reason to revisit and relive the experience in full. Wolfgang Voigt’s alias sounds as impactful now as then with each piece of music exposing deep-felt…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with SOYUZ featuring Asha Puthli & Sven Wunder
Greg fenton reviews SOYUZ featuring Asha Puthli & Sven Wunder – Spring Has Sprung – Mr Bongo What a wonderful piece of music weaving spells while causally casting emotions across landscapes of maybes. It may not really matter if the title refers to the delicate vibrancy of spring or the blast of summer heat as…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Heaven Sent: The Rise Of New Pop 1979-1983
Greg Fenton reviews Heaven Sent: The Rise Of New Pop 1979-1983 – Cherry Red Records Coined by Paul Morley the term New Pop is not one I cherish sounding a little too contrived, too smooth to taste. Although, as with all these things labels stick with a certain accuracy. Words aside I love a lot…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Ramin Rezaie
Greg fenton reviews Ramin Rezaie – Folks Get Down – NAIMA This is an easy fit when the shining sun feels perfect and the sky is crystal blue. Although I guess the immortal words, Everybody Loves The Sunshine could feel right anytime as this classic vocal line and hot keys seal the deal. Ramin Rezaie’s…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Ujin
Greg Fenton reviews Ujin – A Story Behind – Zapped Records A Story Behind is first and foremost about the connection and interplay between heavy-duty drums and bass as they punch out vigorous rhythms together in unison. But scratch below the surface and there is also a wealth of more subtle information going on like…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Other Light Ensemble
Greg Fenton reviews Other Light Ensemble – Body of Ritual Tapestry – Blue Tapes If you feel that this kind of improvised, free-flowing wealth of sound bouncing crazily off atoms might tempt you into an altogether more adventurous state of mind then please, press play. After all, what have you got to lose? Apart from…