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Daniel Spicer

Organic Intelligence

Organic Intelligence XXIX: Dope-fiend Greek Rebetika

In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Daniel Spicer boils up a pot of ironwort and heads back a century for a wonderful guide to the drug-blasted music of urban Greece in the 1920s and 30s

Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Albert Ayler’s Revelations

Daniel Spicer gets to grips with the newly minted five LP set, Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings, and finds the crowning triumph of Albert Ayler's career as a live performer
Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Ahmed Abdul-Malik

Daniel Spicer casts an eye over the career of pioneering jazz bassist and oud player Ahmed Abdul-Malik and suggests ten tracks that confirm his status as a crucial, if undersung, cross-cultural innovator
Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Doug Carn & Black Jazz Records

With the Real Gone reissue of the excellent Adam's Apple released today, Daniel Spicer takes a look at the history of artist-run, independent label Black Jazz Records
Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme Live In Seattle

Daniel Spicer listens to an essential live document of an artist who, for one glorious year, was producing completely timeless, utterly experimental, irresistibly accessible music
Strange World Of...

The Strange (Parallel) World Of… Miles Davis

Daniel Spicer investigates one of the greatest musical legacies of the 20th century and presents ten of his lesser-known records that paint an alternative history of jazz
Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Alice Coltrane & Spiritual Jazz

"What in the name of Lester Young's pork pie hat is spiritual about most music currently labelled spiritual jazz?" asks Daniel Spicer in this week's reissue feature

Low Culture Essay

Death, Angels & Magic: Daniel Spicer On Elvis Presley’s Way Down

In our monthly subscriber-only essay Daniel Spicer has a Proustian rush listening to Elvis Presley's career concluding single Way Down, is reminded of the fragility of existence and is catapulted back into a childhood of ageing teds, biker gangs and wyrd Cornish magic...

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