Andrew Taylor-Dawson

1 week ago | hhv-mag.com | Andrew Taylor-Dawson

Started in a time before streaming platforms, and when the business of putting out music was very different, founder Laurent Bizot had become tired of the approach taken by most labels. Many of them were not focusing on the artistic merits of the work, but merely on the numbers.

3 weeks ago | songlines.co.uk | Andrew Taylor-Dawson

Rating: ★★★★ View album and artist details Artist/band: Ilkka Arola Sound Tagine Label: Flame Jazz Records / Playground Music Finland June/2025 This is the fourth instalment of genre crossing ethno-jazz fusion from Finnish multi-instrumentalist Ilkka Arola and his band Sound Tagine. The main man plays striking bouzouki and trumpet parts, plus synth passages and the odd vocal across the set.

4 weeks ago | everythingjazz.com | Andrew Taylor-Dawson

Renowned for his clowning and often goofy persona on stage, the man known to his Mum as John but the rest of the world as Dizzy, seemed to do everything to live up to his name. But alongside the character and the antics was one of the greatest minds and talents in jazz history. Dizzy Gillespie’s totemic bent bell trumpet was the product of a mishap, and what became a legendary tale.

1 month ago | shortlist.com | Andrew Taylor-Dawson

Ambient music has, in its own quiet way, had a huge impact on contemporary culture. It graces soundtracks, fills Spotify playlists and all the time somehow defies the expectations many have of music. It’s been the bleary-eyed post-rave soundtrack for uncountable party goers as they coast from a hedonistic night into the following day. Ambient music has spawned numerous cult artists and performed many purposes.

1 month ago | hhv-mag.com | Andrew Taylor-Dawson

With her second album »hexed!«, Aya has switched up her sound creating tracks that are more sonically dense, abrasive and often aggressive in tone. Her 2021 debut full length effort »im hole« married synth drones and dissonance with sparse beats and Aya’s spoken and sometimes screamed vocals. It was an emotive record that saw her acting as a sort of narrator or commentator across the shifting beds of experimental sound, drawing together a cohesive and intriguing whole.