Derk Richardson

Jan 24, 2025 | acousticguitar.com | Derk Richardson |Greg Cahill |Adam Perlmutter |Kenny Berkowitz

Fingerstyle guitarist Dylan Fowler straddles multiple worlds, collaborating closely with musicians from Finland, India, Turkey, and across the Celtic diaspora. On this solo album, his first in more than a decade, he brings it all back home, finding his inspiration in American jazz (Keith Jarrett’s “My Song”), Brazilian pop (“Joy”), Bulgarian folk (“Erghen Diado”), and Indian classical (“Six Thaal”) while remaining close to his folk-trad roots in Wales, where he’s lived most of his life.

Sep 20, 2024 | theabsolutesound.com | Derk Richardson |Alice Coltrane

A A A On February 21, 1971, a week after the release of her iconic Journey in Satchidananda, pianist/harpist/composer Alice Coltrane appeared at Carnegie Hall. Coltrane (aka Turiya) put together a band of 60s avant-garde masters: Pharoah Sanders (saxophones, flute, fife, percussion), Archie Shepp (saxophones, percussion), Cecil McBee and Jimmy Garrison (basses), and Ed Blackwell and Clifford Jarvis (drums), plus Tulsi Reynolds (tamboura) and Kumar Kramer (harmonium).

Sep 15, 2024 | acousticguitar.com | Adam Perlmutter |Greg Cahill |Derk Richardson

Near the beginning of the video to her recent song “Act Natural,” singer and songwriter Margaret Glaspy appears to pull off the impossible feat of changing instruments as often as every beat, cycling through a Danocaster, Rickenbacker, Teisco, National, and others in dizzying sequence. It feels like a celebration of the electric guitar, and, come to think of it, so too does Glaspy’s work in general.

Aug 22, 2024 | theabsolutesound.com | Derk Richardson

Before he died in September 2022 at 81, tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders was top of mind thanks to his final album, Promises, made with Sam Shepherd (aka Floating Points). Luaka Bop then decided to reissue the coveted 1977 album Pharoah. The new LP is packaged with a second vinyl disc of two previously unreleased live versions of the signature piece “Harvest Time,” a selection of artifact reproductions, and a 24-page booklet.

May 3, 2024 | theabsolutesound.com | Derk Richardson

A A A A multifaceted percussionist who came to prominence in multicultural settings alongside Don Cherry, Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Jon Hassell, and others, Adam Rudolph has been recording as a leader since 1992, and with his Go: Organic Orchestra and Hu Vibrational projects since 2002. Rudolph is a master of time and space, which he makes pulsate hypnotically through canny orchestrations of acoustic and electric instruments and elegant electronic processing.