27th ANNUAL VISION FESTIVAL 2023 – June 12th – June 18th, 2023
By Bruce Lee Gallanter (Down Town Music Gallery)
Festival Report: 27th ANNUAL VISION FESTIVAL 2023
Category Archives: Reviews
Review: Live Skull “Party Zero”…every punk is a legend!
“Getting in a room and being really noisy is just a natural response to what’s going on right now, because otherwise you’ll just go crazy. That gave Live Skull a reason to exist again.” – Mark C
Artist: Live Skull
Title: Party Zero
Formats: CD/LP/digital
Label: Bronson Records
Genre: No Wave, Experimental, Noise Rock, Alternative Rock
Stream and buy here: https://liveskull.bandcamp.com/album/party-zero
Review by Dawoud Kringle
LP + Digital Album Review: Sylvain Leroux “Qromatica” – the Evolution of the Fula Flute
Artist: Sylvain Leroux
Title: Qromatica
Formats: Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Labels: Fula Flute & Meta Dash
Genre: African Jazz
Release date: May 4, 2023
Buy and stream here: https://sylvainleroux.bandcamp.com/album/qromatica
Album Review by Dawoud Kringle
Sylvain Leroux is a unique musician. He devoted years to the study and mastery of the Fula flute, the traditional flute from Guinea, West Africa. He founded a music school, L’ecole Fula Flute; a music literacy project that teaches this endangered flute tradition. He is one of those people who successfully – and respectfully – adapts a foreign musical tradition, and then expands upon it.
2LP Review: Christina Vantzou, Michael Harrison and John Also Bennett “S/T”
Artist: Christina Vantzou, Michael Harrison and John Also Bennett
Title: Self-Titled
Label: Séance Centre
Format: 2LP (45 RPM) / Digital
Release Date: September 2, 2022
Review by Dawoud Kringle
Trio photo credit Francesco Donadello
Festival Review: Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival (EJBF) July 2022
Text and photos by Fiona Mactaggart
This year’s lavish, multi-venue, ten-day juggernaut of an Edinburgh Jazz and
Blues Festival (EJBF) opened with a bang, with a ‘Mardi Gras’ in Edinburgh old
town’s Grassmarket and an Edinburgh Festival Carnival along the beautiful,
new town Princes Street getting the party started over the first few days. EJBF
has now screeched to a halt while some other festivals Edinburgh is famous for
have taken off, and it feels timely to reflect on some of this year’s jazz festival
offerings.
Bigger than ever this year, EJBF encompassed a wide range of jazz and blues
and prompted the feeling that there may have almost been as many bands
coming from overseas as from within Scotland itself.
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