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”). This is out now: for BFB fans, contains his cover of Leonard employers and stakeholders and while Duas Caras borrows from has been my parachute.” were impressed with what they That explains a lot about this French Drop sounds most like the Cohen’s Hallelujah, one of the Michael Jackson for groove, the fi nest tracks ever recorded. Never saw and heard. end similar to Thriller. album. It’s basically smooth jazz old days. He’s out promoting this, shifts mind scouring the world for Inspectors commented on the We enjoyed this and will in its best sense, with complex “good teaching, learning and arrangements and instrumentation at the day job allowing: he plays inspiration, Nasa only needs to continue to play it, but it might ALT COUNTRY stick this one song in a space ship assessment” and highlighted that be too pop for world music geeks but lots of melody, and, given the The Eagle Inn, Manchester, tonight (Thursday). travelling to the outer reaches and the “large majority” of learners and too eclectic for fans of pop. that Öström is a drummer, tons of made good progress compared rhythm. Steven James Adams JMC it would tell aliens everything It’s out now on Amazon but Old Magick they needed to know about human to their starting points and the offi cially in the UK on 8th April. We mention in the Mmoths majority of learners met or review (elsewhere on these pages) life: the beauty of the human JMC voice, the bible and religious exceeded their target grades. that the Review Corner has been They also said that teacher bathed in a warm sea of happiness belief, emotions from melancholy Molotov Jukebox to joy, and why governments feedback following assessment this week and this is one of the CLASSICAL was good and they provided reasons: it’s just a nice album. have to issue public service Tropical Gypsy announcements to otherwise thorough feedback that helped There’s a sunny, happy vibe — learners to improve their work. because of, not despite, the Sami Junnonen intelligent people about the The Chant Enchanted dangers of swimming with your A-level student Lydia bleakness Öström suffered Whittaker, chairman of the following the death of his friend clothes on. Grace’s title track is a good college’s student executive — and the music draws in various committee, said: “This grade is other genres to infuse the jazz, sign of Buckley’s own talents as a songwriter, too; you get a dubious great news for the college and such as RnB and even prog. The well deserved. This is a fantastic songs are all solid (because he’s cover of Elkie Brooks’ Lilac Wine but nothing is perfect. place to study and feedback a drummer we guess) so never from students on many different sound like anything other than Buckley would have been 50 One of the Review Corner’s this year and doubtless a global courses here is very positive.” jazz, particularly in the solos from favourite band stories concerns College principal Jasbir Dhesi guitarist Andreas Hourdakis. act, with a classy back catalogue. Steven James Adams’s former Instead his estate is putting out said: “We are delighted with the There’s some trumpet from group, The Broken Family Band, outcome. This was very much Mathias Eick on The Shore of this hodge-podge of demos and back when he was merely Steven out-takes, tracks that would never a team effort and the Ofsted Most albums start off well and Unsure. If opener Dog On The J Adams. All the band members inspectors who visited went Beach doesn’t soothe your heart, have seen the light of day except then tail off; Molotov Jukebox do had good jobs, so band money We’ve also been enjoying this on a collectors’ box set of rarities. away with a positive impression the opposite and opener Pineapple you need to check your pulse. was band money only. One night of the college. He’s doing some dates to album by fl autist Sami Junnonen, Given that they are basically him Girl (nice snare solo at the start while on tour, they went out for a though it’s hard to describe. It’s an messing about with his guitar “I am proud and privileged aside) is a little saccharine for promote this, but only plays meal and blew the entire night’s to work with amazing staff and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, London, album of fl ute music by a Finn (he there’s little variation and its us, like the music from a kids’ fee on good food and wine. The was born in 1977 in Tampere) but overall feel is so downbeat it students who make South television show. But it’s not bad, on Tuesday, 26th April and other bands on the tour were not Cheshire College a special place. Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival at various places sounds English makes Leonard Cohen sound like with its horns and energy, and it impressed — their gig money was (Vaughan Williams) and European the Vengaboys. It has been a great couple of gets the party started. in July. all they had to live on, and they’d weeks for the college with our JMC (Mozart, chamber music) and at Opener Just Like A Woman is This is a party album, or at dined on the likes of hot dogs other times exotic — one featured ok; Buckley, guitar, Bob Dylan financial health being assessed least a sat-in-a-fi eld-with-a-pint- and warm beer. They didn’t have composer is Michio Miyagi, an tune, it would make a nice as outstanding by the Skills of-cider album — see this set proper jobs (one of the Broken expert on the koto, a Japanese background track in Starbucks. Funding Agency. played in the sun at a festival and READERS’ VIBES Family Band is a plastic surgeon stringed instrument. The Smiths cover The Boy With “Our financial strength has you’re going to be thinking life and one works for a biscuit The album opens with a Miyagi the Thorn In His Side is ok, too, allowed us to invest an additional doesn’t get much better. Bought a newly released factory is all we can remember). piece, The Sea In Spring, written though only The Smiths can do £1.5m over the last 18 months Track two Just The Thrill beefs album? Whether it’s pop, rock, It’s a great story for any hobby for shakuhachi and koto but it properly. Would he have ever to further enhance the world- out the sound and slows it down jazz or classic, send us a short musician, who for once gets the transcribed for fl ute and kantele released it? No. The bluesy Poor class learning facilities at our a little, a proper tune instead review. upper hand over “proper” by Junnonen and Eva Alkula. Boy Long Way From Home is not purpose-built £74m campus.”