‘Ookii Gekkou’ (Japanese for Big Moonlight) is the sound of ordinary life under a different set of rules
Blue Note founder Alfred Lion considered pianist Herbie Nichols to be a composer who was as original and important as Thelonious Monk
With a cover inspired by John Williams' incredible soundtrack album “Raiders Of The Lost Ark” you couldn't go wrong
we're treated to the driving disco of Livy Ekemezie
This marks the second project Van Tulleken and Herring have worked on together — the two collaborated on Apple TV's The Changeling
Ellen Arkbro - Sounds While Waiting Available On:LP ‘Ookii Gekkou’ (Japanese for BigSounds While Waiting documents the latest organ works by composer and musician Ellen Arkbro following her phenomenal debut, 2017's For Organ And Brass, and the more recent CHORDS for organ. Recorded at a centuries old church in Unnaryd, Sweden in June 2020, these pieces reveal the enchanting qualities of sustained harmonic sound, how patterns of listening dissolve and emerge as textured space. On opening track "Changes," long radiant tones ebb and