Bendik Giske - Cracks

Bendik Giske - CracksBendik Giske (NO DE) is an artist and saxophonist whose expressive use of physicality, vulnerability and endurance have already won him much critical acclaim. You can hear all of this in his debut album Surrender, released at the start of 2019 on Smalltown Supersound, which can be described as Giske stripped to the core: no overdubs, looping, or effects. Just his body, breath, the saxophone and a resonant physical space, plus lots of microphones. The

I've largely neglected other skills except when necessary to pay bills

The double vinyl LP pressing ensures a high-quality audio experience

This is the Marie Pierre of UK soul masterpiece 'Love affair' originally released in 1979

at the border with Mali

It was their last album before their 12-year hiatus

and it is surprising they hadn't recorded more together

3 Feet High and Rising is often viewed as the stylistic beginning of 1990s alternative hip hop (and especially jazz rap)

The lightly-reverbed

Align the Tide

The focus on the singer's bewitching vocals is further underlined by a subtle and nearly minimalistic instrumentation by her long-time collaborator Andris

Get ready to dance on tables (or at least think about it)

Although his electronic music is inspired in his own words by such ground-breaking acts as PORTISHEAD and ULVER