Month: January 2015

• Music Recorded music

  Monkey Puzzle Trio – The Pattern Familiar (avant-jazz)

  

  The musicians that make up Monkey Puzzle Trio are all confirmed experimentalists, all situated on the peripheries of, or the boundaries between, socially validated zones of practice, where the population is sparse and the musical meanings hard-won. The press release for this album situates the ensemble’s work on ‘a tightrope…

  January 25, 2015
• Music Recorded music

  Various Artists – Album Roundup

  

  I wonder whether this band really wanted to call itself Leveret, but couldn’t recall the word. It’s more likely that they’re named after the 1502 watercolour by Albrecht Dürer, an early masterpiece of observational art; I’m not precisely sure why, but an air of mystery never goes amiss. The music…

  January 22, 2015