Double Rainbow
Richard Foster
, February 22nd, 2021 09:27
In Fukuoka native Kumio Kurachi, Glasgow s Howie Reeve may finally have found his soul mate, suggest Richard Foster
Double Rainbow, a split LP between Japanese singer and guitarist Kumio Kurachi and Glasgow-based “acoustic bass troubadour”, Howie Reeve, announces itself with a volley of atonal rasps from the saxophone. It’s a playful start that normally would be balanced with something more reflective. What we get instead is an ever-changing segue of acoustic reflections with short sharp shocks of noise, administered like some wild psychic booster jab, courtesy of NoMeansNo guitarist Andy Kerr and French saxophonist, Cathy Heyden.
ABC Radio National s The Music Show clocks up 30 years on air
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You ll have to imagine the anticipation.
It s a Saturday morning in May 2008, and as usual The Music Show is live in the studio.
I m quite used to speaking to famous musicians, but this morning it s one of the great jazz musicians of all time.
Sonny Rollins has played with Bud Powell and Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Max Roach.
His tunes some of them now standards include Oleo and The Bridge, the latter named after New York s Williamsburg Bridge on which Rollins used to practice so as not to disturb his neighbours.
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It’s become a cliché, even for post-Baby Boomers, to look back wistfully on the early ’70s as some kind of untouchable golden age for popular music. But when you survey all the era’s best albums in list form, it’s hard not to trust that instinct.
I mean…
holy shit.
In 1971, the psychedelic era hadn’t completely wilted; prog was nearing its popularity apex; Motown was still a revolutionizing soul music; the folk-rock movement was in full flight. The possibilities were limitless.
You know it’s a banner year when 50 albums don’t begin to scratch the surface when both John Lennon and Paul McCartney release definitive LPs and neither make the top 10. Was 1971 the greatest album year ever? We’ll save that debate for another time (or maybe another list).