
Yazz Ahmed’s Polyhymnia (Sage Gateshead livestream 14 November 2020. Review by AJ Dehany) Polyhymnia is the Greek Muse of sacred poetry, hymn and dance, a deep thinker credited with inventing the lyre, […]
Yazz Ahmed’s Polyhymnia (Sage Gateshead livestream 14 November 2020. Review by AJ Dehany) Polyhymnia is the Greek Muse of sacred poetry, hymn and dance, a deep thinker credited with inventing the lyre, […]
Last year, Sam Leak wrote a Jazz Musician’s Guide to the festival (link below) in which he played the role of ‘in-the-know’ tour guide, helping readers to navigate their way through the […]
Magpie Trio – Magpie Trio: Live (Available from Sam Jesson’s Bandcamp. Review by Graham Spry) The succinctly entitled Magpie Trio: Live is the debut album from Magpie Trio, led by Sam Jesson […]
Brigitte Beraha – Lucid Dreamers (Let Me Out Records, LMD CD001. CD review by Alison Bentley) London-based singer and composer Brigitte Beraha’s new album is the first under her own name since […]
Huw V Williams – Equidistant Between (Self-release. Album review by AJ Dehany) “I evolve,” he says, “but I don’t… revolve…” At a time when every man of a certain age has deliberately […]
For drummer Sam Jesson the road to becoming a bandleader was a slow and arduous one complicated by a debilitating condition needing a series of not always successful medical operations. But he’s […]
Melt Yourself Down (Lexington, 17 July 2019. Review by AJ Dehany) Melt Yourself Down’s eponymous 2014 debut album of abrasive party psych-punk launched them as the pioneers of a compelling new sound. […]