ACL 2024 ~ Music for Stained Glass

In our very first year (2012), ACL ran a year-end list called Music for Synagogues and Cathedrals.  Since then, the boundaries of spiritual music have greatly expanded.  From haunted organ to repurposed hymn, spoken meditation to abraded choir, these artists have experimented

Szun Waves ~ New Hymn to Freedom

The concept of the ‘super-group’ is one that, thankfully, remains confined to rock-centric circles; it is, in a nutshell, a loose partnership of musicians from other bands who aren’t quite able to scratch the itch where they are at the

Laurence Pike ~ Distant Early Warning

The name may be only vaguely familiar but there is a good chance you will have an album (or at least a song) in your collection on which Laurence Pike plays. His regular gig as one-third of PVT (previously Pivot)

Matthew Bourne ~ Montauk Variations

Normally, when a work has ‘Variations’ in its title, there is usually a theme in existence for the variations to stem from. That doesn’t appear to be the case on jazz pianist Matthew Bourne’s debut solo album; rather the pieces