Hanspeter Kuenzler – Sublime

The Music Machine

Hanspeter Kuenzler — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:33:40 +0000

The success of Florence + the Machine’s debut album Lungs on both sides of the Atlantic has shown yet again that a singular vision and commercial success do not need to be mutually exclusive – even when the band prominently features a harp, an instrument as unwieldy and seemingly old-fashioned as they come … Florence’s...

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Coming into the Land

Hanspeter Kuenzler — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:12:20 +0000

For eight years, Leslie Feist, alongside cheeky multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Chilli Gonzalez, maverick producer Mocky and the singing, sexual-role-defying conceptualist electro star Peaches, made up a group of expat Canadian artists living in Paris and Berlin called – no more than semi-seriously – the Canadian Crew. Feist made her own records, too, but mostly she earned...

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Music Review 29

Hanspeter Kuenzler — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:07:56 +0000

St Vincent, Strange Mercy (4AD) St Vincent is the nom de plume of 29-year-old multi- instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Annie Clark from Dallas, Texas. Recording music in her bedroom from the age of 13, she acted as tour manager for her uncle’s group Tuck & Patti at age 17 before entering the famed Berklee College of...

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The Fairest Of Them All

Hanspeter Kuenzler — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:54:14 +0000

For a man as famously private as Bob Dylan, a remarkable number of Bob Dylan sightings have been recorded in Britain alone. There’s the time, for instance, when Bob turned up to view a house in Muswell Hill and was treated to a cuppa by the absent occupant’s mother. Then there’s the story – borne...

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Music Review 28

Hanspeter Kuenzler — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:56:39 +0000

Hollie Cook, Hollie Cook (Mr Bongo)Of late, reggae hasn’t had much success in reaching an audience outside the long-established centres of fandom. While the more abstract dub experiments from the 1970s onwards continue to attract interest from all corners of the avant-garde world, vocalists of a more traditional bent have lost a large part of...

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What Goes Around

Hanspeter Kuenzler — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:17:55 +0000

Sublime: Your new album is called Long Player Late Bloomer. You’re anything but a late bloomer, though, aren’t you? Ron Sexsmith: In some ways, I feel I am. Even with my singing I feel I’ve gotten better. I know what I’m doing, more so than when I started out. When I wrote that song, I wasn’t...

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Music Review 27

Hanspeter Kuenzler — Thu, 19 May 2011 14:49:43 +0000

Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi, Rome (EMI)There cannot be many people around with a musical mind as open as Danger Mouse, aka Brian Burton, the New York-born producer and erstwhile London resident who first came to the news pages’ attention with The Grey Album, a deeply illicit melding of The Beatles’ White Album and Jay-Z’s Black Album....

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Music Review 26

Hanspeter Kuenzler — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:45:19 +0000

The Kills, Blood Pressures (Domino)The Kills – aka Floridian singer Alison Mosshart (freshly returned from her excursion with Jack White, Dead Weather) and British multi-instrumentalist Jamie Hince – have been around for over a decade, following their own peculiar musical instincts with scant regard for the dictates of the trend police. At times, their refusal...

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Rythm Kings

Hanspeter Kuenzler — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:57:34 +0000

After The Super Rail Band (Mali), Orchestra Baobab (Senegal), Mulatu Astatke (Ethiopia) and Bembeya Jazz (Guinea), among others, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo from Benin are the latest to receive a new lease of life. A veritable ‘big band’ with plenty of brass, Poly- Rythmo were formed in the late 1960s, swiftly becoming popular throughout West Africa. Their...

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Raw Emotion

Hanspeter Kuenzler — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:44:50 +0000

Undoubtedly it’s her voice that will strike the listener first: like Edith Piaf, whom she admires, Calvi’s voice is as tiny as her physique when she – reticently – speaks, but is vast and capable of remarkable acts of athleticism when she sings. Hardly less remarkable, however, is her guitar-playing which, in a beat, can...

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