Jarrod Lawson - Be The Change / 2020 Dome / US CD / DOMECD349
Favourite vocal album released last year - great Soul/Jazz up to the high standards of his debut.
Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
The first four tracks strike me as a bit grungy and dreary. Thank heavens for the fifth, the lilting Overtime
Edit: the sixth, Those Three Days is sublime
Obviously I disagree
The first of two new releases for me this week; first up Nitin Sawhney, Immigrants. I picked this up from Qobuz/Tidal new releases and am suitably impressed with the musical mixture and sound on the first couple of listens. Started with my usual ‘skimming’ and then diving deeper.
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and the second, a new release from Devin Townsend; Live from Leeds which is an acoustic album that sounds so sharp and there is some great banter with the crowd across the album.
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A friend, a pro bass session player himself, has demanded I give this a try out.
It’s quite a soundscape. Slightly avant-chamber jazz that doesn’t seem to stay in one place very long.
Pino and Blake Mills, as my friend and Wiki are informing me, have played with the whole world seemingly. Not just on No Parlez, as I liked to think.
I’m nearing the end of the A’s in my quixotic quest to play all my vinyl alphabetically. This is, of course, Knife by Aztec Camera. It’s not nearly as bad as the 1984 reviews claimed, although, no, it’s not as good as the extraordinary High Land, Hard Rain. But few albums are. And Side 2 is sublime.
Manicure by Bhoyo’s Nail Salon
