Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
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Melissa Aldana Quartet, Pizza Express Soho
Chilean tribute to Mexican icon
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
AT THIS gig, Chilean tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana, playing tunes dedicated to Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, is accompanied by Norwegian guitarist Lage Lund and an all-American rhythm section in drummer Kush Abadey and bassist Josh Ginsburg.
The drums and saxophone colloquy which opens the title number from Adana’s album Visions is unified by Abadey’s splattering, polyrhythmic drums and Aldana’s vertiginous Andean ascents and tumbling cadences.
Small in stature, she rises and bends with the forceful and buoyant sounds of her horn.
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