Peep Show

  Having peered through windows of New York, Gail Albert Halaban turns his peepers to the apartments of Paris with much the same result. As previously there is the same illicit feeling of haven stolen someone’s privacy and the same wonderfully composed images depicting the lives of our unknown neighbors. In a way it’s street …

Katherine Carlyle

I first came across Rupert Thomson many years ago when I brought book called ‘30 under 35’, which purported to contain the best 30 young writers in Britain. He was among them and on the strength of this I brought his first novel ‘Dreams of leaving’ encouraged further by the knowledge that he like me, …

The Ties that Blind

With the arrival at my residence of fine high speed internet the watching of Netflix on my Apple TV is now a happy reality. I’ve wasted no time in binge watching the excellent ‘Narcos’ and now ‘Bloodline’ both of which would make it on to my top ten TV shows of the year list. Bloodline …

Wildheart

  Miguel is one of the relatively recent crop of new r’n’b artists that have caused a revival of interest in the genre. Frank Ocean twisted it into territory unlikely to be visited by Teddy Pendergrass anytime soon on his ‘Channel Orange’ album, Miguel by contrast seemed to be more straight ahead in the mold …

Real Blues

Back when it was fashionable in the late 90’s early noughties, Saint Germain produced a blues sampling house album ‘Tourist’ that found it’s way into many a CD player and ITunes library. Saint Germain aka Ludovic Navarre then disappeared completely from sight not long after that but with the revival of interest in house through …

Invite the Light (and the Funk)

  Dam Funk has perhaps the most descriptive name in music because there is no doubt that funk is what he does. A massive endless amount of funk. So much funk in fact that funk-sampling fan Snoop Dogg nee Snoop Lion, collaborated with him on an album. Now he is back with a vast 18-track …

Thundercat is go

When a musician is good at what they do it’s a pleasure to hear but when they’re good at one they do and dress in an animal costume, well they are sublime Multi-instrumentalist and singer Thundercat is such a dude. He and his band supported Flying Lotus at a gig in New York I was …