Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Melchior Productions Ltd – The Thomas Stieler Edits -MY KING IS LIGHT
Greg Fenton review Melchior Productions Ltd – The Thomas Stieler Edits – MY KING IS LIGHT This series of edits by Thomas Stieler are driven by a force of nature. Opening with the Spiritual Ways Edit of In The Spirit the primacy of the pounding drums is the thing commanding the landscape at first, then…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Joram Feitsma
Greg Fenton reviews Joram Feitsma – Binne All of the words you think of to describe the experience of music come crashing into your head when listening to this new album by Joram Feitsma. Continuing the theme of meaningful discourse sounds and atmospheres are delved into with typical depth across each of the pieces. Often…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Echoes Of Spain – From Segovia and Sabicas to Miles Davis and John Coltrane – él Records
Greg Fenton reviews Echoes Of Spain I love this rich series of albums that Cherry Red and friends do so well. In part because of the wealth of music I get introduced to through the experience, especially when it comes to vintage music I’m not always familiar with. But also because it lets my mind…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Afterlife
Greg Fenton reviews Afterlife – Timbuktu – Subatomic UK Timbuktu scrambles the impulsive aural intensity of the modern world twisting the signs into meaningful discourse by charging headfirst into the face of adversity. Propelled by an endless stream of tantalising electronic waveforms questions about meaning arise throughout the journey just like they do by watching…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Doubtingthomas
Greg Fenton reviews Doubtingthomas – Clockwork – Suleiman Records The music on Clockwork is about the rhythm of movement amidst the creative molecules surrounding and exciting the process. Starting with Stop for a Minute exploring that concept with clever interplay between melodic keys and percussion twirling around the grooves. The title track comes next feeling…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Made By Pete
Greg Fenton reviews Made By Pete – Fires – Crosstown Rebels Fires is an incredibly stunning creation combining the dark heart of soul with grainy electronic, incendiary thinking. At various points, it feels like each note has been carefully crafted for maximum effect teasing out every drop of possibility. You can hear it as the…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Tommy Veanud
Greg Fenton reviews Tommy Veanud – All Or Nothing – Hathōr Imagine you have one hundred new pieces of music to listen through in one go. I wonder what it is that primarily catches your ear in that process. For me, I’m not always interested after all this time (35 years of reviewing music) in…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Dave Clarkson
Greg Fenton reviews Dave Clarkson – Dreamadelica (Music for Dreamachine) – Waxing Crescent Records A story waiting to be told turns the page between celestial choral harmonies, guitar, and synthesized strings as Prelude to The Subconscious introduces the thought process into your consciousness. Given the album title, it’s perhaps not too surprising that this collection…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Hot Sync
Greg Fenton reviews Hot Sync – Whego Flow EP – Witty Tunes Whego Flow is an irresistible production. Full of the stimulating, funky spark igniting life and the seasoned excitement of seeking night-time highs. It’s also all about the fizzy energy of hot rhythm plugged into driving bass and a chorus of voices twisting into…