After recent stereotypical banner headlines this week about it being “Grim Up North”, Tim Garland points the musical way with the rest of this 15-piece big band
Continue reading Tim Garland’s Northern Underground Orchestra – Due North
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If you asked if the Fly office to come up with some suitable remixers for Keep Reachin’ Up, most of the them would be on this superb album of remixes
Continue reading Nicole Willis And The Soul Investigators – Keep Reachin’ Up Remixed
Sonar Kollektiv have a great tradition of getting the best out of a compilation and on this forbidden pleasure series of downtempo obscurica, they have truly excelled themselves
Continue reading V/A – Secret Love 4 (Compiled by Alex Dallas & Jazzanova)
You’d never guess from the CD, but I suspect Lack Of Afro has more to do with hair than anything else. So what more can a boy do? Press on is the answer
There was only one place to be this week and I didn’t make it. But there’s no time to lament that, as ‘The Love Theme’ EP is here to raise our spirits
In the underground world of dubstep, you wonder if night follows day as the bass bombs from the dark side are the lifeblood of the genre. On this new track, two experts have perfectly caught the vibe
There was I thinking about when are we going to hear from Do Right! recently only to find this collection from our favourite lady of Canadian jazz is going to be released very soon
Out East, the Vortex swirls jazz goodness around but west London has its own pockets of perfect jazz. Our favourite is Hammersmith’s Basement Jazz Sessions. We caught up with accidental jazz entrepreneur Joel Reeves on the eve of Elan Mehler Quartet’s visit
Continue reading Basement Jazz Sessions – Out of the Lightness, into the Dark
His Royal Highness, Prince Fatty of the Fish Market and master at the Mansion of Inventions brings you a lession in obesity with a reggae rich calorie intake on the mighty debut album, Survival Of The Fattest
“So, dear Jack, don’t talk through your arse.” Gerry Hectic suggests titles for Finn Peters tunes as we belatedly review his debut album
UK jazz legend has produced a masterpiece in the form of Hoarded Dreams
Continue reading Graham Collier – Hoarded Dreams: Live at the Bracknell Jazz Festival 1983
Compiled by Tru Thoughts head honcho, Rob Luis, the CD opens marvellously with Alice Russell’s ‘Hurry on Now’ given a reggae lay-down by Boub
Continue reading V/A – Shapes 07:01 ‘All New Amazing Sounds’
The Plumstead Radical Club’s debut album came out late last year but now’s a good chance to catch up with it before a special gig at The Spitz on 27th February 2007
Continue reading The Plumstead Radical Club – The Coast Is Clear
