Kevin Press
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Last night’s Lee Scratch Perry gig at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall was always going to be an event. The 81-year-old is that rare thing in music, an actual living legend. When the man who invented reggae steps to the microphone, he builds a kind of tension few octogenarians can muster. The last thing we needed…
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Enjoy. Haircuts For Men – Solo Works Discography 1982-2016. Released Friday. Rich ambient beats with a nice jazz/hip hop feel. Fifteen gorgeous tracks on Tiger Blood Tapes. Cvd – Elsewhere Nowhere. Killer debut from Charles Dollé, an impressive young talent “drawn to 70s jazz and sci-fi movies.” On Paris-based Cascade Records. VVV x Holly –…
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If you’ve been lucky enough to enjoy Benjamin Finger’s work as a DJ or electronic music producer, you already know that he is an accomplished, imaginative artist. The Oslo, Norway-based composer has been recording music since 2005. That’s alongside his work as photographer and film maker. This new album – his 11th – is a kind of…
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At the risk of judging a book by its cover, British duo Pausal’s latest disc comes very nicely wrapped. It features an opulent, abstract piece that sets high expectations for the music inside. You won’t be disappointed. Alex Smalley and Simon Bainton describe Pausal as an “audio and visual art project.” There’s no pretense here.…
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Hanoi’s Nhung Nguyen says this new EP is based on two lengthy piano improvisations she recorded in 2015 and 2016. If that makes you crave a ticket to see this prodigious young artist perform an improv set live, you’re not alone. The five pieces on this new recording are mesmerizing. Nguyen is a modern classical…
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In 1985, right about this time of year, my friends and I navigated our way downtown to Toronto’s Concert Hall to see Cabaret Voltaire. I was two months shy of my high school graduation. But that was nothing compared to the excitement of finally getting to see the great trio from Sheffield. The Cabs…
