Daniel Spicer

2 weeks ago | thewire.co.uk | Daniel Spicer

May 2025 To accompany his report on Colorfield Records in The Wire 496, Daniel Spicer explores a playlist co-curated with label boss Pete Min Colorfield Records is the brainchild of recording engineer and producer Pete Min, operating out of Lucy’s Meat Market, the studio he owns and runs in Northeast Los Angeles.

1 month ago | thewire.co.uk | Claire Biddles |Emily Pothast |Daniel Spicer |Stewart Smith

June 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 496. Inside our brand new issue: Cosey Fanni Tutti: The industrial music icon has been to Hull and back with her new album 2t2. By Claire Biddles Quinton Barnes: The Montreal rapper and producer flips the script in a new project with free musicians. By Emily Pothast David Van Tieghem: The New York percussionist who has played with everyone on the Downtown scene receives a dedicated collection of his own work.

1 month ago | thewire.co.uk | Daniel Spicer

From his earliest days as a player, Brötzmann was compared to Albert Ayler. And it’s certainly true that there are many similarities between Brötzmann’s and Ayler’s sound. Both were influenced early on by Sidney Bechet, and particularly his strong, controlled vibrato. Both imbued their playing with a sense of raw, yearning – almost vulnerable – emotion.

1 month ago | thewire.co.uk | Daniel Spicer

Charles Tolliver’s Music Inc Live At Slugs’ Vols I & II Mack Avenue/Strata-East CD/DL/2xLP Stanley Cowell Musa: Ancestral Streams Mack Avenue/Strata-East CD/DL/LP Pharoah Sanders Izipho Zam (My Gifts) Mack Avenue/Strata-East CD/DL/LP Charlie Rouse Two Is One Mack Avenue/Strata-East CD/DL/LP Strata-East: The Legacy Begins Various Mack Avenue/Strata-East DL Strata-East Records was founded in New York in 1971 by trumpeter Charles Tolliver and pianist Stanley Cowell, drawing inspiration from...

1 month ago | thequietus.com | John Doran |Daniel Spicer

A half-hour taxi ride inland from Nice on the Côte d’Azur, in the southeast of France, brings you to La Fondation Maeght, an art gallery and museum of modern art perched on a hill overlooking the town of Saint-Paul de Vence. Its interior is spacious and cool. Outside, you can wander among the silent sentinels in the sculpture garden or get lost in a marble, bronze and concrete labyrinth designed by Joan Miró.