Panel of Proles #3: Vipertime ~ Shakedown

This decade will be remembered as the decade that jazz innovation was wrestled from the hands and brains of the crazy genius purveyors of nineties/noughties abstract electronica (Aphex Twin, Squarepusher) and reclaimed by a new tribe of instrumentalists (Sons of Kemet, Comet is Coming). This fresh wave of future primitivists blend traditional forms with new […]

Panel of Proles #2: Leafcutter John ~ Yes! Come parade with us

For the second episode of Panel of Proles, we roped in pretty much an entire band to sit on the review panel. It’s a cosmic take-over! And a great PROLE JAZZ honour to report the musings of drum beast Voidlord Gonzalez, void-koan jape fiend Captain Jack Avery and star-sword wielding songstress Celestial Broc on the […]

Panel of Proles #1: K.O.G & the Zongo Brigade ~ Wahala Wahala

Welcome dear readers to a new and extravagant feature! We present Panel of Proles, a shiny & multiplicitous take on reviewing… why have one opinion when you can have two?! In this grand Panel of Proles opening episode we invited regular PROLE JAZZ muso-hack Captain Jack Avery to form a panel of wisdom and invention […]

Natter Jack I: Folk Forest Tim Spills the Magic Beans

In this new feature (to rival PROLE JAZZ‘s dazzlingly popular, ground-breaking and mind-bending Broc On the Block column) we sent ragamuffin space-boy Captain Jack Avery into the lawless corners of bohemian Sheffield to delve into the cultural no-mans-land and collective psyche of this fine city. Jack agreed to seek out the musical kingpins of the […]

Poetics of Vast Scale & Obscure Temperament 1: Mountain Ranges that Sleep but do not Dream

Words are vehicles of great power, and their engines lie at the very depths of us. Our subconscious is a tapestry of dreams, and poets the primary translators of this arcane territory. In this new PROLE JAZZ feature journo-cad & surrealist fashionista Oliver Porpoise Firefly sought out some of the finest poets of Sheffield and […]

‘No Reunions’ – Dead Slow Hoot: Album Review

Joni Mitchell once famously lamented, ‘You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone’. This apparently ubiquitous facet of human nature is so obvious it’s actually pretty banal. That is, until whatever it is you’ve got is all of a sudden gone. For me one thing I didn’t know I got ’til it was gone […]

INDIGO: Jackson Swaby & Jackie Moonbather – EP Review

The releases are coming thick and fast this wild year from the incandescent temple of music that is contemporary Sheffield! Here at PROLE JAZZ we have such an insane backlog of reviews to complete management have purged all slackers from the team, placing Jack Avery in a semi-permanent sin bin on a moon orbiting Venus […]

Spring Releases on Planet Earth

Following on from Henrik‘s nifty round-up of the Hottest New Releases from Sheffield (read all about it HERE), we instructed noise-freak Captain Jack Avery to lend us his words summarising the musical goings on in February and March beyond the walls of the seven-hilled citadel. Jack: The releases of the past couple of months stand […]

Sheffield Spring: Glorious Noise-Jive Abounds

LADYBIRDS & GENTLEFOLK! Roll Up!! Roll Up!! February and March have passed us by in a blistering storm of music and energy. Here at PROLE JAZZ our ambition of monthly music roundups were happily thwarted by a street-food sojourn to southeast Asia which derailed any journalistic activity in February. 75% of the crew decamped to […]

Album Review: ‘Do Not Be Afraid’ – Vula Viel

Vula Viel make the kind of music that defies lazy categorisation. Legendary protopunk wildman Iggy Pop described their music as “…beautiful… dance to it, make love to it, consume it, listen to it, stare at the clouds to it!”. Which pretty much captures the multifaceted experience of listening to their spectacular sophomore album, Do Not […]