Until We Meet Again Avin Ahmadi & Lorenz Widauer Release: 28. November 2025 | Hideout Records   We don’t include many new releases on this site. But this one seemed […]

“Music is a legal performance-enhancing drug.” Thus wrote Professor Daisy Fancourt recently in the Guardian. Perhaps this is a reason why attending live music at the Vortex can be so […]

“Unselfing” is, according to author and philosopher Iris Murdoch, an important way to keep sane and be energised:  it is achieved by immersing oneself in a work of art, music […]

A version of this also appeared on UK Jazz News Hans Falb, founder and director for 45 years of Nickelsdorf Konfrontationen festival in Austria, died at the age of 71 […]

Chris Pugh   The Vortex is a community.  So our regulars such as audience or volunteers are as important to us as musicians. So, when a regular like Chris sadly […]