Articles by Nilan Perera

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  Dur-Dur Band

  Dur Dur of Somalia

  PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2018

  When you listen to this release, and most other African modern music from the '80s and '90s, the question that seems to keep cropping up is...

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  The Brodie West Quintet

  Clips

  PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2018

  First and foremost: this is a jazz album, the way jazz was intended: "the sound of surprise." What we don't have here is a byzantine theore...

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  The Cluttertones

  Leeways

  PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2018

  Bassist/composer Rob Clutton's emergence as a bandleader is an example of the singular visions that have been blooming in Toronto over the...

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  The Residents

  Mod Club, Toronto ON, April 19

  PUBLISHED Apr 20, 2018

  The Residents wasted no time bringing their dadaist menace to the Mod Club on Thursday night. From the moment the four members walked on to...

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  Roscoe Mitchell and the Montreal-Toronto Art Orchestra

  Ride the Wind

  PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2018

  Much has been made of the level of harmonic and melodic density and sophistication present in jazz solos. Since the advent of bebop, when t...

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  Robbie Basho

  Live in Forli, Italy, 1982

  PUBLISHED Feb 18, 2018

  Robbie Basho's world encompassed the whole school of American Primitive guitar (John Fahey, Leo Kottke, et al). His fingerstyle technique w...

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  Tal National

  Tantabara

  PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2018

  Tal National don't waste time trying to convince you. The opening title track roars out of the speakers with all the ferocity of a Black Fl...

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  Hamad Kalkaba

  Hamad Kalkaba and the Golden Sounds 1974-1975

  PUBLISHED Jan 15, 2018

  Analog Africa, once again, digs in the dusty crates and bar jukeboxes and comes up with another jewel of African music. Hamad Kalkaba is fr...