…none of this would have been possible. Have preparations for the live launch begun or do those come later? Everything’s coming together for the live launch. We’re going to be…
…Spoke are a highly renowned innovative spoken word collective that include some high profile and extremely talented young people. The Young Company is The Royal Exchange’s residential company for young…
…you make fifty, you can put your bat up’ he once prudently observed. He is a thoughtful, compassionate and inspirational artist – as wise to music’s remedial powers as he…
…and accomplished drummer and bandleader: he is also a professor of Communication, Political Science and Psychology at California’s Stanford University. He lectures on such topics as public opinion on climate…
…comes to trying to meld the jazz and club worlds. I think that’s something that’s going to catch on there nicely in coming years.’ Your set at SFTOC was a…
…on it prior to releasing it. Over that year we compiled everything, spent time in the studio recording, as well as having our life experiences and all of that. A…
…was created by Karl John. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lYYcY5Lwdk J has invited a variety of Manchester-based artists to join him for the pre-release party. Dane is a 21 years old, alternative hip hop…
…production and a sonic leap forward for Wignall. Mando Diao – Come on come on (Give Me Fire!, 2009) Mando Diao’s fifth studio album, which is certified platinum in Germany,…
…in Bambara” she states, referring to the language in which she most comfortable composes, “but to me, it’s more the purity: the first thing that I’m fighting for is how…
…way of orchestrating common instruments and his compositional ideas, I really saw a lot of possibilities in arranging and started thinking more as an all round musician rather than just…
…of contemporary jazz styles, electronic textures and sampled artefacts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM0wiaUXnLs Sarathy Korwar joins Yussef Kamaal for a live show at Islington Mill on 10th November. Ahead of the show, he…
…began a journey into contemporary classical composition, eventually learning with the composer himself many years later and culminating in a commission for the London Symphony Orchestra premiering my piece, ‘Incentive’…
…more in the future.” McCaslin’s comfort with large ensembles and richly orchestrated music owes a lot to the work of Gil Evans, the late pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader famous…
…on the face of it, the same. So kind of driving home that point that it’s a very very nuanced, complex community… if it is a community at all. You…
…left with a durge of noise. I like to compare it to a painter with his pallete, in that if he were to mix all of his colours together, he’d…
Last week, the Japanese composer and master synthesist Isao Tomita sadly passed away at the age of 84. He was known worldwide for his electronic arrangements of classical compositions, with…