Ubuntu

While Garland’s longform settings for strings and the integration of the written and the improvised are compositionally and conceptually impeccable, Lighthouse steal the show. — Jazzwise, June 2024 More…

Congregation deftly mixes elements of rock and fusion, with some compositions echoing minimalism…On ‘Disfigured Bass’ there is more than an cursory nod to JS Bach…Whatever the springboard, the... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The legacy of the great South African generations that have included Hugh Masekela, Abdullah Ibrahim and Bheki Mseleku, as well as their European champions like Keith Tippett and Django Bates... — Jazzwise, May 2024 More…

These are musicians working together with the kind of intuition that only comes from an intensive focus on the material and a profound collective self-awareness, allowing each track to come... — BBC Music Magazine More…

Sjöstedt’s arranging style is based on a thorough understanding of contemporary arranging techniques […] but it is as both composer and arranger that he demands attention where his shrewd management... — Jazzwise, March 2024 More…

The MO is loosened here, letting the combined trio relax into musical friendship, playing covers and originals. ‘Mood Indigo’ is dismantled for inspection, in a thankfully less extreme version... — Jazzwise, March 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

...while Mattan Klein may wear his influences on his sleeve this enjoyable album shows he has the confidence to make them his own. — Jazzwise, March 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…