Tag: SCANNER

  • Magazine Sixty Music Review with Gareth Davis & Scanner

    Magazine Sixty Music Review with Gareth Davis & Scanner

    Greg Fenton reviews Gareth Davis & Scanner – Songlines – Moving Furniture Records When one door closes, another door opens. It’s the feeling of freedom that welcomes you into this seemingly infinite exercise in notation that is so liberating, not bound to any specific predefined structure other than a communication of electrical impulses and seismic…

  • Magazine Sixty Music Review with Scanner

    Magazine Sixty Music Review with Scanner

    Greg Fenton reviews Scanner – Columns – The Vinyl Factory It’s easy to throw cliques around such as journey, narrative, or immersive to describe music. All are brilliant signifiers although have a definite air of over-familiarity in the current moment. So for the sake of argument and risk of running approval let’s use the perennial…

  • Magazine Sixty Music Review with Scanner & Neil Leonard

    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…

  • Scanner – Alchemeia – Alltagsmusik

    Scanner – Alchemeia – Alltagsmusik

    Engaging 2024 via the language of machinations driven by futuristic numbers feels like a strangely appropriate place to begin the New Year. Although, in this world of upside-down nostalgia you sometimes don’t quite know in which direction music is pointing you. Is it evolving, or folding in on itself? Thankfully, this series of pieces are…

  • Kenneth James Gibson – Further Translations – Meadows Heavy Recorders

    Kenneth James Gibson – Further Translations – Meadows Heavy Recorders

    Beginning at the point that this music generates a more personal conversation between artist and listener might be a good place to start our dialogue. The wealth of music currently being generated, which talks more about atmosphere and mood is almost overwhelming but I guess it is in some way now a true reflection of…

  • SCANNER – The Great Crater – Glacial Movements

    Outstanding. But before we go employing lazy associations and cliques with regards to music that sources ambience as inspiration let’s just say that this album isn’t simply about mood creation but pushes further at the edges of existence. That might be heart-wrenching intensity or richly dark moments. Equally the rush of romance or happy possibilities…