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Author: Neil Hobkirk

Music Reviews, Recordings

Norwegian Night Moves: Yelena Eckemoff’s “Nocturnal Animals” (L & H Production, 2020)

2020/01/31

Album review by Neil Hobkirk Reviewing Yelena Eckemoff’s exquisite Everblue (2015) for Wall of Sound a few years ago, I considered it a compelling answer […]

Music Reviews, Recordings

Make It a Double: “I Long to See You” by Charles Lloyd & the Marvels (Blue Note, 2016)

2016/06/12

Album review by Neil Hobkirk Remember those Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups TV ads from the ‘70s? Varied in their particulars, they shared one premise: a […]

Music Reviews, Recordings

Double Rainbow: Yelena Eckemoff Quartet, “Everblue” (L&H, 2015); Mike Nock/Laurence Pike, “Beginning and End of Knowing” (FWM, 2015)

2016/02/15

Album review by Neil Hobkirk When is an ECM album not an ECM album? Two new releases from, respectively, Yelena Eckemoff and Mike Nock/Laurence Pike […]

Music Reviews, Recordings

Haunting the Metropolis: “Hand. Cannot. Erase.” by Steven Wilson (Kscope, 2015)

2015/08/31

Album review by Neil Hobkirk The drama unfolds in Metropolis, a major Montreal venue. After ninety minutes’ worth of scene-setting recorded ambient music, the five […]

Music Reviews, Recordings

Science Fiction Double Feature: “Black Noise” (reissue) and “Transformation” by FM (2014, 2015; Convexe)

2015/06/02

Album review by Neil Hobkirk Part One: Maple Leaf Escape Craft For me, Part One of the FM story unfolded over FM radio. In 1980 […]

Films, Music Reviews, Recordings

Marco Polo’s Film Music Discoveries

2015/04/09

Album review by Neil Hobkirk We all have favourite film music. Whether absorbed during a movie or savoured separately as an isolated score, the music […]

Music Reviews, Recordings

New Tricks Revisited: Deep Purple’s “Purpendicular” (reissue; HNE, 2014)

2015/02/28

Album review by Neil Hobkirk Purpendicular opens with a sound unfamiliar from previous Deep Purple albums: a buzzing, harmonics-drunk note frenzy lasting just a few […]

Music Reviews, Recordings

Serene Footfalls: “La vie commence ici” by Marianne Trudel (Justin Time, 2014)

2014/12/31

Album review by Neil Hobkirk The three times I’ve seen Marianne Trudel perform in person, she’s radiated rapture. Alert at the piano, she looked possessed […]

Music Reviews, Recordings

Ongoing Adventure: Ranee Lee’s “What’s Going On” (Justin Time, 2014)

2014/11/17

Album review by Neil Hobkirk Just a few seconds in, the strings are what strike you. They’re in fact the masterstroke that invests Ranee Lee’s […]

Music Reviews, Recordings

Kingston Kong: “Bite My Blues” by Peter van Huffel’s Gorilla Mask (Clean Feed, 2014)

2014/10/11

Album review by Neil Hobkirk Raised in a city readily stigmatized as an alternate take—an other London (Ontario), as opposed to the London (England)—I’m heartened […]

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