Although Jimi Tenor is renowned as a solo artist, he is also a serial collaborator; but for the first time, during the pandemic, he drew a band around him of local musicians to bring to life some of his delightful paeans to positivity that must have bubbled up over the lockdown period.
Yearly Archives: 2026
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Park Chan-wook cooks up another idiosyncratic blend of thrills and satirical dark comedy with this sublimely ridiculous tale of a newly redundant paper manufacturer so intent on getting his next job that he’s prepared to terminate the other applicants… with extreme prejudice.
...there is a surprising variety in the styles and delivery. He pays particular attention to the vocals, which are nearly all effected in some way and they range from the sweet tone of his unmolested voice right through to gurgling robotic entreaties.
...as the album progresses, so more facets are revealed, the incessant rhythms coated with twangy guitar, subterranean bass and synth embellishments adding fuel before the inevitable explosion into the stratosphere.
Her first release for OLI, A Requiem, came out back in the spring of 2025, but there was more material left over from the sessions that demanded release; so Æternum gathers together those leftover pieces that were too good to overlook.
Long trailing notes are peeled over the sway of the rhythm section. The other three carefully assemble sounds around the sax, delivering a statement of intent that is gradually dissected over the remaining run-time.
Supergroups as a mainstream proposition appear seem to have largely become a thing of the past, in part due to the music industry’s latter-day solo performer-centric focus and brute economics. Therefore, it has fallen to veterans operating in more independent imprint spheres to keep such convergences alive.
It has been seven years since the last Concept album and although the line-up remains the same, with Trygve Fiske on bass, Hans Hulbækmo on drums and Oscar Grönberg on piano and Hanna Paulsberg herself on sax, they have decided after fifteen years of playing together to see how it sounds with a vocalist.
Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher trilogy, recently released in a handsome blu-ray slipcase set by Second Sight films, not only offer a hectic thug’s eye view of Copenhagen low-life, they also ask two very important questions. One, who is the titular pusher, and two, what does any of this have to do with a Japanese video game auteur (OK, maybe that one’s just me).
Here, with a quintet that includes regular friends Omri Mor on piano, Tal Yahalom on guitar and Yoed Nir on cello, it takes a further heartfelt look at some more of the nigunim that have arisen during Yosef's spiritual wanderings along with a few pieces of a more personal bent.
All four members are part of the fertile Copenhagen jazz scene and regular collaborators with other artists but here, Erik Kimestad, Mads Hyhne, Richard Andersson and Jakob Høyer have convened to bring their years of experience to bear on some of trumpeter Erik's compositions along with some group improvisation.
The film articulates the emotion of grief in all its slings and arrows, with a dedicated and sometimes painful sense of reality. It reminds us that, while Shakespeare’s work may be immortal, in his life mortality lay all around him.
...heavyweight collaboration between bassist Guy Segers, percussionist Charles Hayward and guitarist Kawabata Makoto. Recorded live in Brighton back in 2013, the album consists of three extended improvisations...
After a relentlessly prolific and steadily diversifying 2025, it’s perhaps not surprising that Precious Recordings is one of the first independent labels out of the release gates at the dawning of 2026. With respectively refreshing twists, the below pair of near-back-to-back vinyl and digital outings confirm that the core business of digging up the BBC’s buried treasure chests – with consent - remains undiminished: LP-length anthology of The Twinsets’ triptych of vintage John Peel sessions & Jetstream Pony’s recorded live-on-air appearance for 6Music, Riley & Coe Session 09.04.25 EP.