Category: Album Reviews – Archive

February 26, 2014 / Album Reviews - Archive

Yo (Montuno) The lack of a local distributor resulted in this one slipping under the radar until its Grammy nomination and the announcement of virtuoso pianist Roberto Fonseca’s return tour of Australia. It certainly can’t slip under any radars once you press “play”. The opening 80’s comes blasting from the…

February 19, 2014 / Album Reviews - Archive

Book of Omens (Nine Winds)  If you like your art as dark as a gallery at midnight this is the album for you. If you like your art to stir visions of doom, of the apocalypse or of a very, very bad-hair day, this is the album for you. If…

February 2, 2014 / Album Reviews - Archive

No End (ECM)  So you think you have a pretty fair idea of what a new Keith Jarrett album will sound like. Perhaps you assume the only relevant question is whether it is a solo piano or a trio one. What if I told you it is solo, but it…