Saw her twice — once with a trio (Luke Stewart on bass, Mike Pride on drums) and once as part of an expanded version of Harriet Tubman (HT + the James Brandon Lewis trio + Branch + Darius Jones) performing a re-interpretation of Ornette Coleman's "Free Jazz". Fantastic both times. And all three of the Fly Or Die albums are just stunning.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 23:28 (two years ago) link
What the fuck
― zacata, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 23:44 (two years ago) link
only 39, fucking hell
― sleeve, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 01:00 (two years ago) link
RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2WTLKvbhWA
― sleeve, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 01:01 (two years ago) link
an absolute and gutting loss; she should've had decades of great albums ahead.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 01:16 (two years ago) link
xxxpost Pour one out on my behalf as well, LL.Rough x mellow like no other.Fly or Die Live audience singing along with"Thi-i-s, is, a lo-o-ve song, for ass-holes, and clowns..."
― dow, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 01:24 (two years ago) link
No!
― brimstead, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 01:27 (two years ago) link
Hadn't see this interview before
My first AD interview was with Jaimie Branch. What an artist. https://t.co/FF4If0i3kr— Jennifer Kelly (@jkellyfinwriter) August 23, 2022
― dow, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 03:23 (two years ago) link
just heard. so sad. so young!
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 11:41 (two years ago) link
Sweet post by Alabaster dePlume (saw them play together at Big Ears too): https://www.facebook.com/100057753771232/posts/pfbid0E1D2NzQpXReurcDBryXvTSY9Bje7febpxNN9tEdEbtLv2Mn9khbTf2Zdu8tRk2cul/?d=n
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 13:15 (two years ago) link
https://chicagoreader.com/music/jaimie-branch-has-flown-away-too-soonWritten by someone who knows everyone, worth a read
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 23:19 (two years ago) link
she fell hard for punk, ska, and hip-hop; she had a feel for abstract styles, and just as firm a grasp on music that communicated directly.
she understood that people who think they’re good guys can be assholes, and that even assholes need love.
She got people, and people got her. They recognized the human complications that were as much a part of her music as her combo’s practiced rapport and exhilarating spontaneity.
― dow, Thursday, 25 August 2022 00:16 (two years ago) link
"they think they run this shit" is the quote that keeps sticking with me
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 August 2022 00:18 (two years ago) link
(from the live album)
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 August 2022 00:19 (two years ago) link
https://aquilesnavarro.bandcamp.com/track/el-amor-que-ella-te-dio-para-jaimie-branch
― dow, Sunday, 28 August 2022 01:53 (two years ago) link
Feels sad to move on from mourning Jaimie Branch itt, but ... this upcoming Tom Skinner album seems v promising. A band with Nubya Garcia and Shabaka Hutchings on saxes. (It's funny, when I first looked at the page it listed all the personnel, but now that's gone. I wonder if they're still working out contracts or something.)
https://tom-skinner.bandcamp.com/
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 15:48 (two years ago) link
personnel (and colored vinyl) are on the International Anthem page for the album ():
Tom Skinner – DrumsKareem Dayes – CelloNubya Garcia – Tenor saxophone and fluteTom Herbert – Acoustic bassShabaka Hutchings – Tenor saxophone and bass clarinet
― bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 16:26 (two years ago) link
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/voices-of-bishara?
― bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 16:27 (two years ago) link
Ah, I didn't see I'd defaulted back to the main artist page. Well, the preview track is good!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 16:32 (two years ago) link
Not what I expected from the description (ie influenced by Tony Williams Lifetime and chopped up like Makaya McCraven), but I'm looking forward to hearing the full record.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 16:44 (two years ago) link
Big fun---her other group (didn't get into their previous, but better check it again):
“We’re improvisers first and we’re bringing “moment music” into these other zones of hip hop and electronic music, drum-machine music, sound-system culture… Acoustic musicians sun-kissed by electro-magnetism, flowing out into everything. This is the shit that we want to be playing on big ass systems. Omnivorous, energy space time, mosh pit dance-music. Get it in the subwoofers so you can feel it hit, cuz the music has to begin in the body!” – jaimie branch
Jaimie branch - trumpet, electronics, percussion, vocalsJason Nazary - drums, synthsJeff Parker - guitar, bass guitar, percussion, Korg MS-20Chad Taylor - mbira (track 2)
Also, from unperson's Burning Ambulance newsletter: Hank Shteamer, a friend and colleague, conducted what is almost certainly Jaimie Branch’s final interview. It’s a tremendous piece, very much worth your time:https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/hank-shteamer-jaimie-branch?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
― dow, Saturday, 8 October 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
Also AMEN to all:
LOVING THIS https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/panam-77― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, May 20, 2022 1:52 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglinkPanamá 77 – a vibrant and verdant suite of multi-textural, jazz-laced psychedelic instrumental folk-funk – is the debut album by Panamá-born, Chicago-based drummer and DJ Daniel Villarreal.― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, May 20, 2022 1:53 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglinkyeah this is fannnnnntastic― tylerw, Friday, May 20, 2022 5:13 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglinkThis album is so freaking good. It reminds me of George Braith's Musart, which is one of my favorite albums of all time.― PBKR, Friday, May 20, 2022
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, May 20, 2022 1:52 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Panamá 77 – a vibrant and verdant suite of multi-textural, jazz-laced psychedelic instrumental folk-funk – is the debut album by Panamá-born, Chicago-based drummer and DJ Daniel Villarreal.― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, May 20, 2022 1:53 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah this is fannnnnntastic
― tylerw, Friday, May 20, 2022 5:13 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink
This album is so freaking good. It reminds me of George Braith's Musart, which is one of my favorite albums of all time.
― PBKR, Friday, May 20, 2022
― dow, Saturday, 8 October 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
this is fucking great, label is unstoppable atm
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/an-offering
― sleeve, Friday, 14 October 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
Been listening to a ton of stuff from this label. The latest one to get me was Irreversible Entanglements - Open the Gates. Are the other IE albums as good?
― sometimes you have to drink to kill the paranoia (PBKR), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 02:03 (one year ago) link
The only other one I've heard is Who Sent You?, so great. https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/who-sent-you
And---fine-wine summer '22 music by Jaimie Branch's other group, Anteloper:
― dow, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 03:24 (one year ago) link
Forgot I already posted that, sorry! But worth it.
― dow, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 03:26 (one year ago) link
Thoroughly enjoying this at the moment: https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/voices-of-bishara....Tom Skinner, Tom Herbert, Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia...
― fetter, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 09:01 (one year ago) link
Yeah, really like that Tom Skinner album.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
Just catching up on some recent releases, both the Tom Skinner and Dezron Douglas albums are really great. The latter is the most "traditional" sounding thing I've heard from this label in a long time, but it still really works.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
Agreed on the Douglas "oh! this is 'normal' jazz" reaction. I'd love to see that group live.
I've listened to the Skinner twice and would say it's very good but it also faded from memory quickly (possibly a result of my listening to too much [old] jazz lately though).
― rob, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
International Anthem musicians: They're Just Like You update:
Spotted M McCraven behind me in line at Target today!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 20:48 (one year ago) link
only time i ever saw him in public, I started approaching him to tell him how much i loved his music and he gave me a clear "please don't talk to me" looki dunno, i probably caught him at a bad moment
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 20:57 (one year ago) link
I’ve seen him 3x now — twice at the restaurant where I work and this once at Target. I didn’t say anything about being a fan any of those times but did get to make limited small talk when I delivered his drink once.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
I met him at the Green Mill once. He wasn't playing, just there for the after-hours jam the night that Anderson Paak was playing at the theater next door and so Kamasi Washington and everyone from the band was in the house. The drummer was late and I was 'joking' that he should play the first tune, but he was off the clock. Super nice though.
Saw him again at a very intimate club with a (guitar) trio, incredible show.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 21:50 (one year ago) link
Daniel Villarreal brought the house down last night at the venue attached to my workplace. I caught a tiny bit of it (I was working) and could only wish I was not working so i could see the whole show. People were raving on their way out.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 3 February 2023 14:13 (one year ago) link
Ooh very jealous!
― rob, Friday, 3 February 2023 14:39 (one year ago) link
Thanks for reminding me how much I listened to that earlier this year. Need to pull it out again.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Friday, 3 February 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link
the new / upcoming Angel Bat Dawid album is incredible.
Chain Around The Spirit!!!
― stirmonster, Monday, 20 March 2023 13:04 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/L6vaN8wl.jpeg
saw tortoise in portland last night and dan bitney was wearing a fly or die shirt <3
― Clay, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 22:15 (one year ago) link
<3
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 22:24 (one year ago) link
I wish the rest of this Rob Mazurek album was less free and more like the first track, I had high hopes
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 31 March 2023 17:44 (one year ago) link
Angel Bat Dawid album felt corny as hell to me but I stopped after five tracks
― zacata, Friday, 31 March 2023 21:30 (one year ago) link
same
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 31 March 2023 21:43 (one year ago) link
She can be a bit much. I think Damon Locks does something similar to her but a whole lot better.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 31 March 2023 22:30 (one year ago) link
I like The Oracle a lot, but I couldn't get into the choral stuff on this one. Plus I still need to see The Cry of Jazz, so that reference is lost on me
― rob, Saturday, 1 April 2023 14:20 (one year ago) link
My first take, when a friend sent it to me recently (the gist: I got more into the second half on first listen)
Tue, Mar 28, 3:21 PM (4 days ago)to JohnDammmm---gonna take me a while to wrap my head around all of that---at first, was put off/distracted, in my secular way by extended, layered, ornate use of themes otherwise recalling spirituals (chorales not her specialty) as associated, in less pressing way, with Ra, and Ellington, for that matter, also somewhat distractingly, though the notes warned me, w The Cry of Jazz/Ed Bland's insistently polemical POV---but the second half pulled me in more, as often happens, maybe takes my brain that long, but also got more into reeds, strings, some electronics, perceived in more of a prominent, supportive partnership with chorale--also emerging w for inst klezmer-associated motifs, also dig the early New Orleans groove of another track, and of course Marshall Allen and Knoell Scott get into thee penultimate performance--I like how these live sections are mutable, without going on too long--will take some more listening, but some great stuff here, obviously------she pulls off a much more concise collage ov speculative fact and effects here, a trip : https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/hush-harbor-mixtape-vol-1-doxology On this latest, she incl. some fellow members of the Monuments Ensemble; they all have some bracing urban offroad excursions here: https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/now
Dammmm---gonna take me a while to wrap my head around all of that---at first, was put off/distracted, in my secular way by extended, layered, ornate use of themes otherwise recalling spirituals (chorales not her specialty) as associated, in less pressing way, with Ra, and Ellington, for that matter, also somewhat distractingly, though the notes warned me, w The Cry of Jazz/Ed Bland's insistently polemical POV---but the second half pulled me in more, as often happens, maybe takes my brain that long, but also got more into reeds, strings, some electronics, perceived in more of a prominent, supportive partnership with chorale--also emerging w for inst klezmer-associated motifs, also dig the early New Orleans groove of another track, and of course Marshall Allen and Knoell Scott get into thee penultimate performance--I like how these live sections are mutable, without going on too long--will take some more listening, but some great stuff here, obviously------she pulls off a much more concise collage ov speculative fact and effects here, a trip : https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/hush-harbor-mixtape-vol-1-doxology On this latest, she incl. some fellow members of the Monuments Ensemble; they all have some bracing urban offroad excursions here: https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/now
― dow, Sunday, 2 April 2023 02:36 (one year ago) link
I have to say the new Angel Bat Dawid is a rare miss from this label. I love her other stuff, but this really feels like an event you needed to see in person to appreciate. On the recording, it comes across as really stilted and episodic, it rarely coheres in an engaging way and I wonder if the stage spectacle would have helped with that. I don't think it's corny at all and appreciate what she was trying to do, it just doesn't hold up as an album.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 20:55 (one year ago) link
*announcing* IARC0066 jaimie branch -Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))LP, CD, Digi album out August 25th, 2023LINK: https://t.co/itzFirAMIs pic.twitter.com/9jsXJpGkR7— 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 (@intlanthem) June 20, 2023
― city worker, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 14:03 (one year ago) link
Pre-ordered my copy already.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 14:17 (one year ago) link
amazing cover imo, can't wait to hear it!!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link