
Prezident Markon’s New Year’s Honours List
I note with interest that in my New Year’s Honours List of January 2020 I described 2019 as “dire”. So... Read Article
Mark Sampson - or Prezident Markon as he is known to a discerning minority of listeners in France - is a writer, journalist, intermittent radio DJ and straw-bale builder (once featured on Channel 4's Grand Designs Abroad). He lives in SW France with a tolerant wife, an affectionate dog, 'two cats in the yard' and more music than you can shake a baguette at.
Website: mtsampson.com
I note with interest that in my New Year’s Honours List of January 2020 I described 2019 as “dire”. So... Read Article
On a casual first listening, this band from Birmingham (that’s England, not Alabama) sounds like Hot Club of Cowtown might... Read Article
Season’s greetings, pop-pickers! There are few more gratifying ways of bringing this annus horribilis to a close than savouring some... Read Article
If you want the synth, the whole synth and nothing but the synth, then this “mini-LP” is for you. It’s... Read Article
One man’s passion became the same man’s label. Now based in Barcelona, El Palmas is described as “an intertropical South... Read Article
Aníbal Rojas is a Chilean jazz saxophonist from Santiago who emigrated to the US 20 years ago. Since then he... Read Article
Around this time two years ago, I reviewed on this site an ambitious musical project on the UK’s Far Out... Read Article
“Hey, James! Who’s this Bosq cat, then?” “Bobby, I don’t know, but whoever he is, he’s got to be FONKY!”... Read Article
I’ve dipped my hand into the lucky-bag and picked out some variegated singles and other items for you in keeping... Read Article
Regular visitors to this site may remember Ellen Gordon’s interview with Raúl Monsalve prior to the band’s appearance at the... Read Article
Mexican jazz doesn’t pop up on the jukebox of life that often. So, when it does, it’s gratifying that it’s... Read Article
What a strange and intriguing album the new Berlin-based Litoral Records has chosen to inaugurate its exploration of “the intersection... Read Article