Posted by: mx on: July 30, 2009
To me previously unknown British artist Stephen Wilkinson aka Bibio made one excellent album that’s, as all good ones, kinda hard to describe – it’s largely electronic music but at the same time it floats back and forth between folk and funk let’s say. Mellow but experimental, it grows on me on each listen. I [...]
Posted by: mx on: January 3, 2009
Same as it never was begins as if it’s an instrumental hip-hop album. And hip-hop really is the root of Herbaliser’s music, played by a mini orchestra around Londoners Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba. But only a couple of seconds later it reveals its true kaleidoscopic face, made of glaring elements of funk, jazz, soul [...]
Posted by: mx on: November 26, 2008
I once saw a movie where the main character was planning all the time how he’s gonna take a girl home, put on some Marvin Gaye and then they’ll undoubtly get laid. Well I think he’s onto something.
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Posted by: mx on: October 23, 2008
I have most of the Maestro Blue Note compilations (Sunrise/Sunset, Gettin’ Up/Gettin’ Down etc), and they’re all really nice. So I was looking for some more Blue Note stuff like that and found this. All these are not the “classical” jazz compilations, as you might expect given that Blue Note is the most famous jazz [...]
