The Chronicle, Thursday, 17th March, 2016. www.chronicleseries.co.uk 27 of a dance anthem from Justin’s musicians. It perhaps indicates Miyagi went blind after a sighted too bad. But a cover of Everyday House. why the BFB’s pleasing alt childhood, and this piece is doubly People is something he would ALBUMS It’s party music so lively beats AMBIENT country with witty lyrics was evocative as he remembers the sea have shoved in a box marked are to the fore, with Latino horns, never bigger. They were good but and the seeing of his childhood. “never play again”. accordion and violin and various they didn’t have to try: take or The second piece is by Finn The demo of Grace is good, dance rhythms, from samba to Luneworks Mmoths leave it, they don’t at the end of Janne Ikonen (b. 1975), Sprout but really we’re bending over the accordion-led fohó (a style the day care, as they have good For Flute And Kantele, the music backwards to fi nd praise by WWORLDORLD of music from north eastern jobs and families to worry about. fl owing freely, like a plant from singling out these highlights out. Brazil, but you knew that) and BFB is now gone but Adams seed. It’s a mystical piece, which It’s a depressing and unvarying cumbia (Latin American dance) remains and this is his second in some ways sounds more eastern album whose songs mostly should Deltino Guerreiro to Balkan. solo album and in some ways than Miyagi’s opener. have been left in the vaults. Eparaka It’s mostly upbeat and it’s similar to his former band. Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata JMC relentless cheerful, though songs Downbeat, world-weary tunes In C Major and then Carl Philipp like the reggae-infl uenced with some great one-liners but Emanuel Bach, Sonata In A minor Halfway There (reggae with as a whole the album lacks the follow, this section giving the Balkan horns and it speeds up urgency of a man whose life will music a more traditional European after a bit) offer space for a collapse round his ears if he can’t feel, and virtuosity overtaking breather. make back the advance from the atmosphere as the musical LLIVEIVE We’ve got no lyrics but record company. precedent in places. Carl Philipp’s apparently the themes of the It reminded us of our 1916 pieces veer slightly towards the human condition such as love, We’ve been bathed in a warm edition of the Chronicle: it took avant-garde, which leads nicely Simple Plan on tour lust, regret and death are featured. sea of happiness this week in a lot of work and it’s very good into the more modern sounds of If you want references (aside the Review Corner, thanks to but we want it to sell for personal works by Aki Yli-Salomäki (b. from “the Madness-inspired brass some lovely music across several satisfaction only. (Now on sale 1972), Jimmy López (b. 1978) band, we once saw in Holland”) genres. in Tesco, £1.25 for 72 pages, a and Uljas Pulkkis (b. 1975). These they’re a cross between Gogol Luneworks Mmoths, is one. bargain). take the album off into dreamer Guerreiro is from Mozambique Bordello and No Doubt. Yes, it’s ambient, which too often Anyway. The album opens with realms, though never and while you could call this The singer is Natalia Tena, a denotes hoochy Zen background Togetherness, a pleasant tune with challenging. world it’s actually pop, Guerreiro Wildling in Game of Thrones, the music sold in wacky shops that Adams’s trademark gentle vocal; This is one of those albums drawing in infl uences from a one who didn’t say: “You know believe lumps of rock can make it appears to be about someone that’s been made to play, not variety of musical cultures. It nothing, Jon Snow.” you emotionally stable. Or coming back home, possibly an analysed. It creates an atmosphere most reminded us of Moonfl ower They’re out touring this and Clannad. Ugh. errant partner (we’re guessing, that is off-kilter enough to divert vintage Santana, which combined play Gorilla, Manchester, on There are exceptions: Steve we’ve got no lyrics) “You are the listener from normal life but the energy of Brazil with tribal Saturday, 30th April. Hillage’s Rainbow Dome Musik welcome here / You’ve been taken is not so edgy that you can’t relax Legendary pop-punk fi ve-piece rhythms and western rock. JMC is fantastic or even The xx or for a ride” it says. King Of the into it. Simple Plan have released a new Guerreiro developed his sound James Blake. Jack Colleran, who Back Of The Bus laments the Junnonen, who holds a master studio album Taking One For The travelling from the north to the is Mmoths, has produced another. loss of youthful enthusiasm in a of music with distinction from the Team, which should be reviewed south of his country, from soul It’s got enough impetus to have friend: he or she was the king Sibelius Academy, performs on here next week. and RnB to the musical tradition JJAZZAZZ the appearance of rhythm so it of the back of the bus but now 24-carat and 14-carat gold fl utes, They’ve announced a UK of northern Mozambique, with moves forward and while there’s it’s “just massage music in your handcrafted by the Muramatsu headline tour. Dates include house”. The narrator, of course, Flute Co. lyrics in Portuguese, English and Magnus Öström a lot of swooshing and sighing on Wednesday at Manchester O2 Macua. the synths, it’s meaty and upbeat. sees himself differently: “I think I JMC Ritz. Opener Three Estações is the Parachute It’s deeper than deep house. move with the times / Maybe you (Submitted photograph). kind of pop you can hear blasting As soon as it came on we disagree.” out of your internet radio if you started feeling much better about It’s a gentle album and if you tune to Caribbean/African radio the world. There’s a movie about listen to the music alone it’s ARCHIVES stations. For those who don’t tune a happy but solitary spaceman a bit samey and you need the into Zoukstation Kizomba, it’s just waiting to be made around stories revealed by the lyrics close to the feel-good light pop this. to make it complete, though Jeff Buckley You And I College is tunes you might hear on holiday The downside is that you put overall the deadpan presentation in Spain but with a funky Isley it on to play and while you’re combined with Adams’s heart- Bros style guitar solo at the end. thinking of what to say about warming vocals make it praised after Sonho is the fi rst of the songs track one, it’s played to track fi ve appealing. that evoked classic Santana, a without it being really obvious Adams has in the past written good Ofsted chilled vocal over a lazy groove where one stopped and the next about black magic but we could and solid bass. started. However: You has some see little evidence on here, the grading Faith opens with acoustic kind of robotic voice toning gently title and sleeve image aside. (As guitar and ululating. We might Öström was a member of the under swooshing waves of synth, well as our favourite story, the Broken Family Band produced have suggested it closes with a famous Esbjörn Svensson Trio the crests of which have hard South Cheshire College was touch of Wham style sax — and (no, us neither, but presumably edges, giving a little bit of edge one of our favourite lyrics: “This house well the sun would come in praised by Ofsted inspectors the next song is Faith — but if you like jazz you’re all over and development. Deu is gentler following a good grading that might be reading too much them), until Mr Svensson perished but with a nice keyboard sound, nearly every day / Now the drapes and the altar and the pentagram inspection in February. into it. Faith is a chilled jazz/pop in a tragic diving accident. while Phase In has a more spaced As a result, the Crewe college song that’s almost lounge music Öström says in the Press out intro. Para Polaris almost has get in the way / And there’s blood in the kitchen, and blood in the Poor old Jeff: died too young confirmed its position as a as is Freedom, with its Santana- release: “During the years after a beat and some quite strident leading further education Esbjörn’s death I struggled to fi nd bathroom / And blood on the after rashly going swimming in style keyboard noodling. Se Eu sounds and is almost a dance a big river with his boots on, provider in the region. Te Dissesse crosses the line into my way back to life. At times it tune. sheets and black candles wherever I step … You’re a devil woman leaving us with one album and The inspection team observed bland lounge music and was the has been really dark. When I have Excellent. a range of classes and college been at my lowest, the music has / Your heart is black / But your memories of a fantastic voice. weakest song on the album. JMC That lone album Grace activities and met with students, Okinkela is more “world” always been there to save me; it body drives me crazy”).