Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
-
Magazine Sixty Music Review with Roots Rock Rebels – When Punk Met Reggae 1975-1982
Greg Fenton reviews Roots Rock Rebels – When Punk Met Reggae 1975-1982 – Cherry Red Records Another brilliantly realised compilation from the team at Cherry Red readily captures that sense of creative excitement, as if anything could happen – and it did – in the highly charged atmospheres surrounding the late seventies to the early…
-
Magazine Sixty Music Review with Joep Beving & Maarten Vos
Greg Fenton reviews Review with Joep Beving & Maarten Vos – vision of contentment – LEITER Pianist Joep Beving and cellist Maarten Vos have created awe-inspiring pieces of music carved out in emotional brilliance, resounding across styles and genre definitions, each cutting straight to the heart of the matter. In the end, it’s simply how…
-
Magazine Sixty Music Review with WAPO Jije
Greg Fenton reviews WAPO Jije – Motionless – Stay True Sounds Stay True Sounds has that rare ability to capture the qualities of tradition while infusing their music with contemporary zeal. This gorgeous, exceptional slice of sound fuses a deep reflection of gospel-inspired chords, an unhurried pace of shuffling drums, plus a heady celebration of…
-
Magazine Sixty Music Review with Auguste Safar & Raphael Graham
Greg Fenton reviews Auguste Safar & Raphael Graham – ZA RIA EP – 366 DAYS If music is worth more than endless snare rolls and tired old disco samples then it must say something of note by connecting to synergy that is proactive and contemporary. Auguste Safar and Raphael Graham’s inaugural 366 DAYS record has…
-
Magazine Sixty Music Review with Jeff Mills
Greg Fenton reviews Jeff Mills – The Eyewitness – Axis Records Lost in worlds. Found in sound. We are surrounded incessantly by so much music that it’s perfectly reasonable to lose your grounding. To forget where you are. Maybe even to be certain of what remains important within the art of listening. In evaluating. Writing…
-
Magazine Sixty Music Review with Scanner & Neil Leonard
Greg Fenton reviews Scanner & Neil Leonard – The Berklee Sessions – Alltagsmusik Why resist the temptation to state the obvious? Especially given that it involves the word Jazz. If any excuse is needed to provoke a reaction then this articulate genre is forever ready. Indeed, Jazz is a most beautiful word for a myriad…
-
Magazine Sixty Music Review with Ricardo Pinto
Greg Fenton reviews Ricardo Pinto – Peça para um Wesker This elegantly played piece of piano by Portuguese composer Ricardo Pinto appears almost as if out of nowhere, surprises of this quality are often timeless denoting moments as they drift endlessly past. Set to accompany a play by Arnold Wesker, it’s a seemingly uncomplicated yet…
-
Magazine Sixty Music Review with Matthew Oh
Greg Fenton reviews Matthew Oh – Unseen EP – Outlaw Matthew Oh reappears on his own Outlaw imprint and as you can see from the cover art messages are also inherent in the label’s nonglossy outsider print. Musically each of the four numbers espouses depth and meaning transmitting sounds to get lost in yet provoking…
-
Magazine Sixty Music Review with f5point6
Greg Fenton reviews f5point6 – A World Within Our World – See Blue Audio Scratching beneath the surface are the words that occur upon engaging with the fractured elements gathering pace on Konis_. Cracked, suggesting something needs fixing like a vital requirement is amiss requiring urgent attention. The piece is an amalgamation of overlapping sounds…