The Friendly Rasta lives near me. He sometimes makes music out of other people’s music and he plays records to smiling friendly people in my community. He also makes a good cup of coffee. I like the Friendly Rasta. Yesterday, he gave me a copy of his new 12″, which contains four superb tracks, including [...]
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Over the past year, I’ve made ‘online friends’ with Chris Chinchilla (bachelor number 3 above), formerly guitarist of Art Brut, now centrepiece for Macaca Mulatta. The band was first formed from the ashes of London punks Rhesus, then re-formed in Australia after Chris toured there and almost immediately decided to settle in Melbourne. Art Brut [...]
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I’ve been talking about Albert Ayler quite a bit this past week with Prof. Tim Wall, who’s been writing about David Murray on his blog Wall of Sound — partly in response to the post I wrote about Murray’s take on Sonny Rollins here on The Wireless back in March. Tim and I went to [...]
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Broken-beat & nu-soul pioneer, perennial Gilles Peterson favourite and my old record label partner, Mark de Clive-Lowe has some new material out. Sadly, some of it’s a little hard to come by for us Westerners. Mark’s half Japanese, and does business with labels that don’t always release outside those borders. But the good news is [...]
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