Presente negli ultimi anni più sul fronte delle attività performative e laboratoriali che su quello discografico, Shelley Hirsch torna con una delle sue acrobatiche (e inconfondibili) narrazioni istantanee in Vanish, documentata in forma di album digitale dall'austriaca Boomslang Records. Con lei sono Christian Weber e Alfred Vogel: "Hirsch’s unmistakable vocal world - shifting effortlessly between song, spoken word, noise, character shifts, and pure sonic exploration - meets the razor-sharp intuition of Weber and Vogel, two musicians celebrated for their adventurous interplay and dynamic versatility. Together, they create an electrifying trio that navigates between improvised music, experimental soundscapes, and unexpected lyricism, resulting in a performance that is as daring as it is deeply human - unpredictable, humorous, raw, and always alive. A meeting of three uncompromising voices in contemporary improvised music - unmissable for anyone drawn to bold, forward-thinking sound."

https://boomslangrecords.bandcamp.com/vanish

Torna allo splendore - beh, quasi - di The Camera Loves Me: intanto su Skep Wax Records con l'album Tears Before Bedtime, poi dal vivo a Londra al Water Rats sabato prossimo, e a seguire Coventry, Ramsgate, Cardiff, Gateshead, Glasgow... Jessica Griffin, cioè Would-Be-Goods: Say hello to Dr Love again...

Jessica Griffin returns with a marvelous new album as Would-Be-Goods who some él Records-heads may know from her cult classic 1988 debut The Camera Loves Me, a work of jangly ‘80s does twee ‘60s. Tears Before Bedtime is a page out of Griffin’s own book, a pleasantly galloping carousel of melody-driven guitar pop vignettes helmed by her idiosyncratic soprano that can recall at one moment Françoise Hardy, another Astrud Gilberto, and the next, Yoko Ono. Adrift in literary references, Greek mythology, and homages to Europe’s great artists, Griffin is ever the playful bard. Tears Before Bedtime takes the listener from Belle Époque Paris to a 1960s London biker cafe, telling tales of doomed love in the sultry American South and the price of a visit to see the sinister Dr. Love...

https://would-be-goods.bandcamp.com/tears-before-bedtime
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E tra chi supera ogni record personale - senza allusione alcuna all'agonismo olimpionico - c'è il grande Chris Searle, che porta a compimento in questi giorni il più voluminoso dei suoi volumi (oltre cinquanta): Global Groove: Words of a Jazz Cosmos, per Jazz in Britain.

Chris Searle is a British educator, poet, anti-racist activist, and socialist. He has written widely on cricket, language, jazz, race, and social justice, and has taught in Canada, England, Tobago, Mozambique, and Grenada. He has been associated with the Institute of Race Relations since the 1970s, and is on the editorial board of Race & Class. He writes a weekly column on jazz for the left-wing newspaper Morning Star.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/author/chris-searle