Carla dal Forno resurfaces with the news of plans to release her third album, Come Around, via her own Kallista Records imprint on November 4, 2022. With the album’s announcement comes the perfectly hazy, red-hued video for the album’s dreamy, inviting title track, edited by Ludovic Sauvage. Dal Forno shares about the track: “’Come Around’ […]
“I love the idea of something being so romantic that it almost hurts,” says C (for Chris) Duncan of the music he adores. Glasgows classically trained multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter honours that idea with tremendous reserves of panache and feeling on his fifth album, Its Only a Love Song, released through Bella Union on 24th January […]
Antidawn reduces Burials music to just the vapours. The record explores an interzone between dislocated, patchwork songwriting and eerie, open-world game-space ambience. In the resulting no man’s land, lyrics take precedence over song, lonely phrases colour the haze, a stark and fragmented structure makes time slow down. Antidawn seems to tell a story of a […]
Buddy Guy was a guitar legend decades before the release of ‘Damn Right Ive Got The Blues,’ (he played with Muddy Waters as a house guitarist at Chess Records in the sixties), but when this great record was released in 1990, he has been at the blues forefront ever since. The album contains a great […]
1980s Italian action adventure. British thief Rick Spear (David Warbeck) is hired to steal a fabled sceptre from the tomb of King Gilgamesh, but he is not the only one after the valuable treasure.
Legendary creator Brian Clemens writes and directs this stylish, revisionist Hammer Horror – pitting a swashbuckling hero, his hunchbacked assistant and a feisty gypsy ingenue against a cunning and malevolent vampire. Starring Horst Janson as Kronos and Hammer Glamour icon Caroline Munro as Carla, cult classic Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter makes its worldwide debut as […]
Andrew Slater writes and directs this music documentary which centres on the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles, and how it came to be a hub for influential musicians such as The Byrds, The Beach Boys and The Mamas and Papas. Among those featured in the documentary are Eric Clapton, Beck and Regina Spektor.
Much like Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet has never lost its power of fascination. More than sixty years after being made, this great album never went out of print (even though the record company that produced it was skeptical at first!). Despite the controversy it sparked when it […]
Dave Brubeck’s recording career began in the early forties. He formed an octet in 1946, which alto saxophonist Paul Desmond would first join in 1950. The first regular formation of the Dave Brubeck Quartet with Paul Desmond had Joe Dodge on drums and, alternatively, brothers Bob and Norman Bates on bass. The formation with Dodge […]
In the spring of 1954 Jazz-great Dave Brubeck did a tour of North American college campuses. Paul Desmond(alto sax), Bob Bates(bass), and Joe Dodge(drums) joined him and their support of Brubeck’s uniformly flawless, ultimately producing what many consider as the most memorable music in the artists cannon. Indeed the genre gets schooled as the quartet […]
