So far I don't like it as much as The New Breed, but I think it will be a slow burner. "3 for L" is fantastic.
― fetter, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link
Digging the Makaya McCraven / Gil Scott Heron thing at the moment.
― fetter, Thursday, 12 March 2020 11:31 (four years ago) link
It's really good! I actually really like that Alabaster Deplume album too.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 March 2020 14:29 (four years ago) link
otm! big up calzino for mentioning the DePlume on the rolling jazz thread: it is achingly beautiful
― rob, Thursday, 12 March 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
Agreed!
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 12 March 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
i could use some achingly beautiful today; queuing up now.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 12 March 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
Oh, the dePlume is really nice!
― Sund4r, Saturday, 14 March 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
Yes enjoyed it on a short flight yesterday
― Heez, Saturday, 14 March 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
Another vote for the deplume here finished it and immediately restarted it for a second listen thru critical and kind music at this moment
― Mordy, Saturday, 14 March 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
yeah, it's great.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 14 March 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
Good god damn this DePlume record is absolutely beautiful.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 16 March 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the reminder -- I checked out the DePlume today, and it is wonderful. It has a slight Getatchew Mekurya vibe.
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Monday, 16 March 2020 23:53 (four years ago) link
yah, that is right. really a great album, thanks for hipping me to it.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 02:05 (four years ago) link
That Alabaster DePlume record is exactly what I needed right now, thank you
― city worker, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
"Not My Ask" brings me to tears
― Mordy, Thursday, 19 March 2020 03:59 (four years ago) link
Praise for Recent Non-Album Track "Homeless/Global"https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/homeless-global
this is so good rn
― j., Thursday, 19 March 2020 04:37 (four years ago) link
Alabaster DePlume = ILM record of the year 2020, calling it now
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 19 March 2020 14:06 (four years ago) link
icymi, rob made a thread for it:
thread of rapturous appreciation for Alabaster DePlume
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 19 March 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
Interview w Angel https://thequietus.com/articles/28498-angel-bat-dawid-emma-warren-interview-total-refreshment-centre-transition-east
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
I am two tracks into the new Makaya McCraven (Universal Beings E&F Sides) and it is FYAH
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 July 2020 17:22 (three years ago) link
Loving this one
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 31 July 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
posted unwatched but excited to see this short makaya bio dochttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9t86fAuz5s
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 10 August 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
okay, watched; really great and helpful in understanding his process.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 10 August 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
Interested in seeing that. New album is decent but I don't think it's as good as Universal Beings. Some good grooves, though; I can see why it would appeal to Jordan.
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 02:45 (three years ago) link
Universal Beings continues to be my most reliably enjoyable album of quarantine. Works for anything. I know it gets a lot of love but if anything I think it's underrated. Like, why isn't this guy on tv?
I wonder if the Jaimie Branch agnostics itt have heard the Anteloper stuff with Jason Nazary. It definitely converted me. Great stuff
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 28 August 2020 12:55 (three years ago) link
i do feel like the crossover with makaya and say, the herbie hancock/robert glasper/kamasi washington crowd seems natural and it's either a matter of time for him to break bigger or it's just a sign that he's not interested in pursuing a broader audience.
Again, that doc is great; anyone even a little into makaya should watch it. Turns out his mother is a lead member of Kolinda (pictured, i think, on this youtube thumbnail on the right)!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46C4F7XmYLg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 28 August 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
Will check doc, thanks. He was featured on Jazz Night In America not too long ago, should be in their archive. Also in that good recent UK comp Kaleidoscope, which is on YouTube, also w some Brits on https://totalrefreshmentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/makaya-mccraven-where-we-come-from-chicagoxlondon-mixtape A bunch of other stuff on bandcamp I haven't listened to yet, but digging this: https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/universal-beings-e-f-sides. And def. Gil Scott-Heron's We're New Here: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven, as I carried on about over on What Are You Listening To? 2020:Still haven't heard the original album, or Jamie xx's reworking, but the unmistakable sound and sensibility of classic Gil come through: sharp, reflective glints in the dark, rough-edged a fluid, lyrical and realist, searching and on point, thematic and grooving---jazzwise, yet "blues is a feeling" the overall. Only thing is, some of the originals are really short, like down to 37 seconds: golden kernels of potential and realization---McCraven is def. not showboating, but I wish he extended these--maybe he was required to stick to the original track times? I'd like a bit more---Laswell redoing Marley and Miles? Anyway, it's all good, though faves are mostly because they have longer to make an impression: "New York is Killing Me," "I'll Take Care of You," "Me and the Devil"--yes, Scott-Heron and Robert Johnson and Mr. D. on the Greyhound, seems natural. Speaking voice is worn but clear, singing voice not that different from 1970s.
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― dow, Friday, 28 August 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
That Where We Come From set is maybe my favorite McCraven thing; you can get it on IA's Bandcamp page (I have the CD):
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/where-we-come-from-chicagoxlondon-mixtape
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 28 August 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
Can’t wait to hear the new Angel & the Brothahood live album, the backstory is grim but I loved the part about how she sat down at the hotel piano and went off on the guy who told her not to play. https://pitchfork.com/news/angel-bat-dawid-and-tha-brothahood-release-new-live-album-listen/
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 31 October 2020 23:37 (three years ago) link
^I still haven't gotten to that, but I just listened to Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra's "Dimensional Stardust" and really loved it: https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/dimensional-stardust
― rob, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 21:47 (three years ago) link
Her live album is REALLY good, would recommend with the caveat that it's pretty heavy!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 26 November 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
It's emotionally a lot to take - not something you're gonna want to listen to every day. But yeah, it's great stuff.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 26 November 2020 01:50 (three years ago) link
I'm on track 5 of the Mazurek now and am really liking it so far.
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Thursday, 26 November 2020 06:40 (three years ago) link
It took a few listens to absorb, but I'm now quite taken with the shimmery Chicago Waves by Carlos Niño and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. It's much much more new age/ambient than jazz, probably closest to the De Plume record than anything else on the label that I've heard, though it doesn't pierce your heart with melodies like AdP. Maybe some day I can listen to it while strolling through an aquarium (perhaps Shedd...sigh).
As that recommendation maybe implies, I still haven't gotten into the mental space to try the new Dawid
― rob, Saturday, 5 December 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
I worked yesterday afternoon in front of a fire with the Exploding Star Orchestra album on and it was very nice.
― Joe Biden Shot My Dog - Vols. I-XL (PBKR), Sunday, 6 December 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
There's a new Damon Locks/Black Monument Ensemble album coming in April: https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/now
the first track is really beautiful (recorded live & outside last summer -- you can hear the cicadas)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQLGNOCb6ZM
― rob, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 14:01 (three years ago) link
I love that. The video is very cool as well.
― perhaps I myself was the object of my search (PBKR), Friday, 26 February 2021 19:03 (three years ago) link
The whole album is amazing. I said on Twitter that it's like a combination of SAULT, an Adam Curtis documentary, and Archie Shepp's Attica Blues.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 26 February 2021 19:12 (three years ago) link
Will be pre-ordering this for sure. A little surprised the physical edition isn't out until July though, shit must really be getting backed up.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 February 2021 19:16 (three years ago) link
I've only seen like 10 mins of a Curtis doc but I am intrigued by that description
― rob, Saturday, 27 February 2021 00:21 (three years ago) link
Well this totally rules—deserves its own thread really, but I'm annoyingly busy today
― rob, Friday, 9 April 2021 14:56 (three years ago) link
fyi Sons of Kemet fans should get on this immediately
― rob, Friday, 9 April 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
This = Damon Locks and Black Monument Ensemble? It's great. Wish there was a little less spoken parts, but I get that's an essential part of what their doing.
― guillotines aren't just for royalty anymore (PBKR), Friday, 9 April 2021 19:16 (three years ago) link
was a little less = were fewer, jesus
yes that's the one!
Since we have some deathly allergic-to-spoken-word jazz fans around here, I think it's fair to note that, aiui, most of the "spoken parts" are samples not slam poetry, giving the whole thing something of Madlib/sound collage quality (I assume this is what unperson meant by referencing Adam Curtis). Still might not be your cup of tea, but it's a different vibe from some of the declamatory contemporary jazz that I know rubs some the wrong way
― rob, Saturday, 10 April 2021 13:24 (three years ago) link
Yeah I like the Damon Locks album a lot. The first and last tracks in particular.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 10 April 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link
Been enjoying it
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Sunday, 11 April 2021 04:35 (three years ago) link
Went to see Jaimie Branch & her fantastic band blow the roof off last night -- it was my first show post-pandemic and I may have been primed to enjoy it regardless but I LOVED IT. I loved everything about the performance -- the band's chemistry, the energy, the music itself, interaction with audience, guest players!, her performance style. If you have a chance to see her, don't miss it. I think the band is on tour?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 4 July 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I've been getting that experience, as much as possible online, from listening to their live album:https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/fly-or-die-live
― dow, Sunday, 4 July 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
I am not super familiar with Angel Bat Dawid's work, does she always use autotuned vocals so extensively, like on this?
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/hush-harbor-mixtape-vol-1-doxology
― sleeve, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 19:05 (two years ago) link
She uses a lot of different vocal techniques/ways of singing and/or vocalizing -- that's just one thing she does ime. Not broadly representative of her vocal style.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link
thanks!
― sleeve, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
PERFORMING AT BASILICA SOUNDSCAPE 2021
“Like a blossom emerging from between the floorboards of a slaughterhouse, Moor Mother’s music is an act of transcending a violent, intolerable present.” - The Fader
Today Moor Mother – aka Camae Ayewa – is announcing her new album ‘Black Encylcopedia Of The Air’, thirteen mesmerizing tracks about memory and imprinting and the future, all of them wafting through untouched space like the ghostly cinders of a world on fire, unbound and uncharted, vast and stretching across the universe.
On the new single “Obsidian”, Moor Mother says the song is about present danger - “thinking about one's proximity to violence. Thinking about violence in the home. Violence in communities." Featuring rapper Pink Siifu, listen and watch the song’s new video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fovnxpu10EA.
― dow, Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
from Rolling Jazz:
More Energy Fields, Currentby Carlos Niño & FriendsTagged in label notes as 10 pristine gems of collaborative communication helmed by the Southern Californian sage, elegantly presented in his unique “Spiritual, Improvisational, Space Collage” style. And sounds like the improvisational part might feed and respond to the Space Collage: it's more jazz than set piece, like the tracks, never too long, might be scooping up something along the way, lighting in the bottle and vice-versa. Wonder if they play live, with loops, maybe? (I imme
Listening on headphones, I keep getting aerial glimpses of the Pacific Coast Highway, interspersed w more time in little caves and coves: an intimate, though airy, small group sound, always incl. Niño (percussion, sound design, editing, mixing) and I think always Jamael Dean on keys, with others sometims on drums, tenor and/or flute, synths, and voices (on one track: wordless ones, don't worry, of Laraaji and Sharada). Shabaka Hutchings, Dntel, Adam Rudolph, Aaron Shaw, a bunch of others, coming in and moving on, at least for a while, never too many at once.
First one to command my attention was "Nightswimming," then so many of the others that I gave up on linking a favorite in addition to the whole thing:https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/more-energy-fields-current
― dow, Monday, May 31, 2021 4:57 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
Niño’s previous album on IA, Chicago Waves, is live if you’re curious! I think I described it as more like ambient/new age than jazz on the IA thread but I liked it a lot
― rob, Monday, May 31, 2021 5:08 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
Will check, thanks! Ambient/New Age usually puts me right to sleep, but this got me more awake.Also, this one has *kind* of a DePlume vibe, or related appeal,anyway, but maybe earlier in the day or evening, and a little more spare?https://alabasterdeplume.bandcamp.com/- dow
― dow, Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:29 (two years ago) link
also from RJ:omg Dedicated to Saint Escrava Anastacia.creditsreleased June 19, 2021
All instruments, vocalz, and synths performed, produced, recorded, arranged & mixed By Angel Bat Dawid.https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/hush-harbor-mixtape-vol-1-doxologyFirst encounter w this, and don't know of course if it will seem as amazing now that I know what to expect (nothing like what I did expect from several titles, which is prob the point), but so far it's immediately compelling, often beguiling, with an eerie, tranquil intensity, and some shifting surfaces and perimeters (for inst, what's happening to the vocals going around the room---"I know I should be grateful"---in " 'Goree,' or Slave - Stick"---we also get the improbably redemption of overt Auto Tune sometimes, or maybe keys, emphasizing the inflection (of male group vocals? Or herself treated?) that suggests a African-Hebraic-Isalmic chain, rattling a little (the clarinet encourages this). One of the most affecting tracks is her untreated, a capella , "Bet"--followed, in a plausible way, by a calmly killer finale trilogy. None of this is an onslaught of sounds though; each room is only as full as need be. Seems like a rec to fans of adventurously historical clarinetists John Carter and Matana Roberts (her Coin Coin series, and maybe all of his Roots and Folklore: Episodes in the Development of American Folk Music, although the album from that I'm thinking of, and most familiar with, is Fields).
― dow,
― dow, Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:33 (two years ago) link
^^ I'm really enjoying that one
― sleeve, Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
Hush Harbor Mixtape is amazing, too bad I'm too late to pick up the tapeQuite an amazing label, starting to feel I can basically buy anything I happen to see out there
― willem, Friday, 16 July 2021 08:12 (two years ago) link
Hush Harbor is great, been listening alot (and did order the tape!). Just saw this one dropped with very little info: https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/jps-myspace-beats
Not much info to go on as there's no digital release, only the 2xlp. It sounds like it's beats and tracks Jeff Parker has worked on over the years. I can't find internet documentation of much, but did find one of the tracks on his Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeff-parker/supernat
― city worker, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
Has anyone received their Damon Locks vinyl? I think it was supposed to ship in July but there has been a delay?
― Taliban! (PBKR), Monday, 23 August 2021 22:46 (two years ago) link
Bought it in a shop last weekend so it's out there!
― willem, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 06:20 (two years ago) link
IA tweeted about pressing & shipping of LP's recently:To Whom It May Concern: an update on vinyl pre-orders (Damon Locks, jaimie branch), pressing/shipping woes, challenges, commitments, ideals and other musings...
To Whom It May Concern: an update on vinyl pre-orders (Damon Locks, jaimie branch), pressing/shipping woes, challenges, commitments, ideals and other musings... pic.twitter.com/Q1VZkF0f7y— International Anthem (@intlanthem) July 22, 2021
(1) Damon Locks NOW LP's have been stuck customs in the US for the last couple of weeks.. So if you're waiting on this LP which we said would ship July 9th... The albums are out of jail soon. We’ll start shipping them as soon as they arrive in Chicago. Hopefully in 2-3 weeks max
― willem, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 06:30 (two years ago) link
They just announced a new Irreversible Entanglements album, Open the Gates, out in November.
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/open-the-gates
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 24 August 2021 10:40 (two years ago) link
Thanks, willem. I found something indicating a September 16 date so just a little longer.
― Taliban! (PBKR), Tuesday, 24 August 2021 11:59 (two years ago) link
I think this record is just incredible, so gorgeous, almost ambient:
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/chicago-waves
― sleeve, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link
yep, that's my favorite IA release that I've heard. I have yet to buy the new Carlos Niño album but I plan to.
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
New Irreversible Entanglements out in Nov, on Don Giovanni/IA
― dow, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
This label is just absolutely incredible, I don't know that I can pick just one favorite. The new Carlos Niño & Friends album is even better, to my ears anyway.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link
I think this record is just incredible, so gorgeous, almost ambient:https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/chicago-waves
I'd not heard this one. Wow, it's beautiful. First track reminds me of The Lark Ascending, somehow.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 9 September 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link
These guys have all of my money. Those ambient records are really nice, and I dig all of the projects Jaimie Branch is involved in (like the anteloper/tour beats record). But the Makaya McCraven records are still tops for me, especially Highly Rare.
― three of the doctor's valuable bats are now dead (broom air), Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:07 (two years ago) link
xp willem or others who wanted that Angel Bat Dawid cassette: I noticed there are 25 copies in the bandcamp store as of today.
― city worker, Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
Thanks cw! IA's IG account recently mentioned extra copies were to be brought to a live event and remaining copies would be sold through bandcamp. Sadly, the shipping costs to the EU are insane since there's only shipped from Chicago. Too bad. Still enjoy it through spotify though
― willem, Thursday, 9 September 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
So happy to finally get my hands on a physical copy of the Alabaster DePlume album today.
― willem, Thursday, 9 September 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link
New Irreversible Entanglements out in Nov, on Don Giovanni/IA While we're waiting, the aforementioned Moor Mother alb is just out:https://moormother.bandcamp.com/album/black-encyclopedia-of-the-air (This bandcamp also has her Brass collab w billy woods from Dec., which I just now noticed, d'oh!)
― dow, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 02:52 (two years ago) link
BEN LAMAR GAY ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUMOPEN ARMS TO OPEN US
OUT NOVEMBER 19 VIA INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM / NONESUCH
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “SOMETIMES I FORGET HOW SUMMER LOOKS ON YOU”https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/open-arms-to-open-us
― dow, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
it is the best thing i listened to this week. so good!
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
psyyyyyched to hear the rest of this dos santos albumhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n23rl_6gdXM
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 7 October 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
New Irreversible Entanglements is sounding pretty sick!
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:30 (two years ago) link
Waiting for my CD to get here in a couple of days, stoked to hear it. This label.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:31 (two years ago) link
it's ridiculous how many extremely good albums from the last few years feature Luke Stewart as a bass player.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
Yeah, the Irreversible Entanglements album is great, maybe my favorite IA release of the year.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 16:08 (two years ago) link
Kicking myself for missing them at Big Ears. I saw Moor Mother's solo set, which was fiery, but not with the band.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
Another huge thumbs up for Irreversible Entanglements.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
Also stoked for the new solo guitar Jeff Parker record and the new Ben Lamar Gay, basically everything they put out is instant purchase imo.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 16:39 (two years ago) link
late pass on angel bat dawid, this is liquid firehttps://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/black-family-2
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 November 2021 14:05 (two years ago) link
Jeff Parker's new one is a solo acoustic folky thing, by the look of it. New Ben Lamar Gay is wonderful.
― fetter, Friday, 19 November 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link
Still superenjoying City of Mirrors. Alma Cósmica is my fave track still but it has a very enjoyable vibe throughout. I’m making seeing them live a priority!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 22 November 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
solo acoustic folky thingit's solo but it's not acoustic or really folky
― tylerw, Monday, 22 November 2021 20:33 (two years ago) link
Very excited about solo Parker, love the preview track (very patient and loop-based, duetting with himself)
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 22 November 2021 20:48 (two years ago) link
Truly a miraculous year for this label. I just listened to the Jamire Williams album; naturally, it's excellent. The Parker is up next
― rob, Thursday, 16 December 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
incredible run in '21.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 16 December 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
Yes the Jamire Williams is great!
― three of the doctor's valuable bats are now dead (broom air), Thursday, 16 December 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
Every album a must buy
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 December 2021 15:33 (two years ago) link
It's pretty wild! For ex, the Dos Santos album isn't really my usual thing genre-wise, but it's super well made and sounds great
― rob, Thursday, 16 December 2021 15:35 (two years ago) link
hello it is fantastic -- the more you listen to it, the better it gets. if you have ever wondered about the intersection of cumbia & krautrock (I have) it really hits the spot.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 16 December 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
i should say motorik -- krautrock is too vague
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 16 December 2021 15:42 (two years ago) link
my problem is I only have a vague idea of what cumbia is :/
but I did like it a lot on two listens, just got overwhelmed by IA releasing 4 more albums I had to hear
― rob, Thursday, 16 December 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link
Soundway Records (another no-miss label imo) has some great comps if you're interested. this was released in 2011 and continues to deliver! https://soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-original-sound-of-cumbia
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 16 December 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
I am interested and that looks amazing, thank you!
― rob, Thursday, 16 December 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
cosign on that Soundways cumbia comp, it's fantastic
there's two great LP comps via the Mississippi label as well ("A Orillas De Magdelena" and "Remolino De Oro")
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Thursday, 16 December 2021 16:16 (two years ago) link
saw nicole mitchell performing the xenogenesis suite and angel bat dawid doing the music of yusef lateef. that shit was fucking great but the carnegie audience was extremely square.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 26 February 2022 06:15 (two years ago) link
enjoying "recordings from the åland islands"
― Qamon (||||||||), Friday, 11 March 2022 22:12 (two years ago) link
Same, very lovely. Would have been a big lockdown record.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 11 March 2022 23:00 (two years ago) link
Honer and Chiu opened for Alabaster dePlume when I saw him last night; it was a pleasant new age knob twiddle. I will put the album on now.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 20 March 2022 20:59 (two years ago) link
Speaking of new age knob twiddle, have you heard this, forks? Pasted way upthread from Rolling Jazz 2021:More Energy Fields, Currentby Carlos Niño & FriendsTagged in label notes as 10 pristine gems of collaborative communication helmed by the Southern Californian sage, elegantly presented in his unique “Spiritual, Improvisational, Space Collage” style. And sounds like the improvisational part might feed and respond to the Space Collage: it's more jazz than set piece, like the tracks, never too long, might be scooping up something along the way, lighting in the bottle and vice-versa. Wonder if they play live, with loops, maybe? While mixing on the fly---?
Listening on headphones, I keep getting aerial glimpses of the Pacific Coast Highway, interspersed w more time in little caves and coves: an intimate, though airy, small group sound, always incl. Niño (percussion, sound design, editing, mixing) and I think always Jamael Dean on keys, with others sometimes on drums, tenor and/or flute, synths, and voices (on one track: wordless ones, don't worry, of Laraaji and Sharada). Shabaka Hutchings, Dntel, Adam Rudolph, Aaron Shaw, a bunch of others, coming in and moving on, at least for a while, never too many at once.
Also now I see Carlos has his own Bandcamp page, with lots more to check out.
― dow, Sunday, 20 March 2022 21:44 (two years ago) link
new to me but will add to the playlist!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 21 March 2022 00:25 (two years ago) link
LOVING THIS https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/panam-77
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 20 May 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
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, 20 May 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
yeah this is fannnnnntastic
― tylerw, Friday, 20 May 2022 22:13 (one year ago) link
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, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
Which for some reason is not on streaming afaik.
― PBKR, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
yeah I dig the Panama 77 album! thx for the rec, LL
― jaymc, Saturday, 21 May 2022 04:37 (one year ago) link
absolute bliss listening to this outside yesterday as the sun set
― rob, Saturday, 21 May 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
I love Jeff Parker's contributions to this
― fetter, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
In/On is soooo good
― rob, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
wow the hits just keep coming, psyched for this:
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/extra-presence
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Saturday, 28 May 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
And the Charles Stepney archival collection is now fully up for preorder
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/step-on-step
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
new Carlos Nino album "Extra Presence" is fantastic FYI
astonishing list of collaborators including Iasos, Laraaji, Shabazz Palaces, and a bunch of other folks
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 01:45 (one year ago) link
Carlos Niño & Friends
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 01:46 (one year ago) link
Thanks for the reminder! Like I carried on about way upthread, CN & Friends' More Energy Fields, Current was one of my toppermost picks of '21.
― dow, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 02:15 (one year ago) link
Premiere of a new Angel Bat Dawid composition streaming here tonight (Saturday 8/20):
https://m.twitch.tv/elasticartschicago
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Sunday, 21 August 2022 01:22 (one year ago) link
Literally can’t believe we will never hear new music or see the exuberant performance of Jaimie Branch again — the realest of the real, will pour one out for her tonight 🥲
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
I kinda can't believe this. Shocked. What a loss.
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link
just terrible news
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 22:08 (one year ago) link
what the hell
― tylerw, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 22:12 (one year ago) link
Well shit. For real one of my favorite new artists of recent years. So lucky I got to see her at Big Ears. Really sad to hear it.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
this sucks so much
― sleeve, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 22:46 (one year ago) link
Oh no that is awful and shocking news
― rob, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
― Mar - a - Lago, or 120 Days of Sodom (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
What the fuck
― zacata, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 23:44 (one year ago) link
only 39, fucking hell
― sleeve, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 01:00 (one year ago) link
RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2WTLKvbhWA
― sleeve, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 01:01 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
No!
― brimstead, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 01:27 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
just heard. so sad. so young!
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 11:41 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
"they think they run this shit" is the quote that keeps sticking with me
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 August 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
(from the live album)
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 August 2022 00:19 (one year ago) link
https://aquilesnavarro.bandcamp.com/track/el-amor-que-ella-te-dio-para-jaimie-branch
― dow, Sunday, 28 August 2022 01:53 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/voices-of-bishara?
― bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 16:27 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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
― tylerw, Friday, May 20, 2022 5:13 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― 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 (ten months ago) link
Pre-ordered my copy already.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 14:17 (ten months ago) link
amazing cover imo, can't wait to hear it!!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 14:25 (ten months ago) link
Surprised not to be seeing much about the new Asher Gamedze, Turbulence and Pulse. I know it's not as forward looking as some of the other stuff these guys put out, but I think it sounds great!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 10 July 2023 21:21 (nine months ago) link
it's really good
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 00:18 (nine months ago) link
finally getting around to the Gamedze today, and, yeah, it's excellent
― rob, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 13:03 (nine months ago) link
Not IA, but of related interest:
Hi everyone,Infrequent Seams keeps at it, releasing an astounding amount of astoundingly creative music. I wrote to y'all about this last week, but today's the day we announce the debut recording from Chicago's Mad Myth Science, to be released 8/25.It's been four years since Elaine Mitchener put together her brilliant Vocal Classics of the Black Avant Garde playlist for The Wire* and if she reprised it today, I have to believe Mad Myth Science would be a top contender for inclusion. Julian Otis's beautiful, fragmented, passionate poetry and vocalizations thread together these shimmering and forward-thinking improvisations, helping to elevate what was already exceptional to something beyond.Texture and timbre are central to this work. Mad Myth Science finds power in nuance, in sensitive and subtle –– if not always gentle –– interplay between the idiosyncratic mix of instruments: flute, saxophone, cello, harmonica, vibraphone ... the pre-Don Moye era Art Ensemble of Chicago might come to mind here, with good reason. For years I used to attend Umbrella Music's jazz night at the Hungry Brain in Chicago every Sunday and frequently visited Fred Anderson's Velvet Lounge. Mad Myth Science reminds me of the very best of these evenings; it feels like a distillation of many things memorable and powerful about avant garde jazz and creative music, definitely recommended for fans of Angel Bat Dawid, Matana Roberts, Jeanne Lee, Irreversible Entanglements, and the aforementioned Vocal Classics of the Black Avant Garde playlist. Please share news of this forthcoming release and share "We Instruments."
Infrequent Seams keeps at it, releasing an astounding amount of astoundingly creative music. I wrote to y'all about this last week, but today's the day we announce the debut recording from Chicago's Mad Myth Science, to be released 8/25.
It's been four years since Elaine Mitchener put together her brilliant Vocal Classics of the Black Avant Garde playlist for The Wire* and if she reprised it today, I have to believe Mad Myth Science would be a top contender for inclusion. Julian Otis's beautiful, fragmented, passionate poetry and vocalizations thread together these shimmering and forward-thinking improvisations, helping to elevate what was already exceptional to something beyond.
Texture and timbre are central to this work. Mad Myth Science finds power in nuance, in sensitive and subtle –– if not always gentle –– interplay between the idiosyncratic mix of instruments: flute, saxophone, cello, harmonica, vibraphone ... the pre-Don Moye era Art Ensemble of Chicago might come to mind here, with good reason.
For years I used to attend Umbrella Music's jazz night at the Hungry Brain in Chicago every Sunday and frequently visited Fred Anderson's Velvet Lounge. Mad Myth Science reminds me of the very best of these evenings; it feels like a distillation of many things memorable and powerful about avant garde jazz and creative music, definitely recommended for fans of Angel Bat Dawid, Matana Roberts, Jeanne Lee, Irreversible Entanglements, and the aforementioned Vocal Classics of the Black Avant Garde playlist.
Please share news of this forthcoming release and share "We Instruments."
Peace, mark at clandestinepr dot comSINGLES & RELEASE CALENDARJULY 19 _ album announce + "We Instruments" single releaseAUG 25 _ full-length releaseLIVEAUG 11 _ Lafayette, IN at Spot Tavern AUG 13 _ Chicago, IL at The Hungry Brainwith Keefe Jackson / Julian Kirchner / Fred Lomberg-Holm trioLINKSMad Myth Science InstagramInfrequent Seams BandcampALBUM CREDITSMolly Jones: saxophone, flute, toys (Untoward Sound LLC)Julian Otis: voice, electronicsWilson Tanner Smith: cello, harmonica, bells & whistlesBen Zucker: cornet, vibraphone, percussion (ASCAP, Ben Zucker Sounds)
JULY 19 _ album announce + "We Instruments" single releaseAUG 25 _ full-length release
LIVE
AUG 11 _ Lafayette, IN at Spot Tavern
AUG 13 _ Chicago, IL at The Hungry Brainwith Keefe Jackson / Julian Kirchner / Fred Lomberg-Holm trio
LINKSMad Myth Science InstagramInfrequent Seams Bandcamp
ALBUM CREDITSMolly Jones: saxophone, flute, toys (Untoward Sound LLC)Julian Otis: voice, electronicsWilson Tanner Smith: cello, harmonica, bells & whistlesBen Zucker: cornet, vibraphone, percussion (ASCAP, Ben Zucker Sounds)
*https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/elaine-mitchener-selects-vocal-classics-of-the-black-avant-garde
― dow, Friday, 21 July 2023 19:09 (nine months ago) link
And speaking of vocals, excerpts of Clifford Jordan's previously unreleased Drink Plenty Water, recorded in 1974, incl. cosmic chorales and bent-nose spoken words in ways that suggest Sun Ra and Mingus, as reviewer Kevin Whitehead notes here:https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188651008/newly-unearthed-1974-session-by-clifford-jordan-is-a-striking-one-of-a-kind-albu
― dow, Friday, 21 July 2023 19:18 (nine months ago) link
This is exciting—a new track from Resavoir with the promise of an album in the future: https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/inside-minds
― rob, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 13:02 (nine months ago) link
ooh yes
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 13:49 (nine months ago) link
Daniel Villarreal Announces New Album Lados BOut Oct. 6 2023Featuring Jeff Parker & Anna ButterssReleases Video for Lead Single "Sunset Cliffs"Fall US Tour DatesOn October 15th and 16th, 2020, drummer Daniel Villarreal was joined by guitarist Jeff Parker and bassist Anna Butterss for two afternoons of recording in the backyard of Chicali Outpost in Los Angeles. For all three musicians, it was the first ensemble recording session they’d done in-person since the pandemic locked the world down just seven months prior. Some choice moments from these sessions made it onto Villarreal’s critically-acclaimed 2022 album Panamá 77, but most of the music remained unreleased.Lados B is a deep dive into the high-level spontaneous music made by Villarreal, Parker, and Butterss across those two days in 2020. Villarreal is heard leading the group through various rhythmic modes and structures for improvisation – flow as informed by the Latin funk of Fania Records as it is by the otherworldly humanity trance of Brain Records – while Parker and Butterss draw on their extensive experience playing free together (as heard on Parker's recently-released Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy, and the LA side of Makaya McCraven's 2018 LP Universal Beings) to build harmonic buoys for their spontaneous melodicism. The result is a beautifully vivid illustration of context, creativity, and collective composition from a particularly rich moment in history.DANIEL VILLARREAL ON "SUNSET CLIFFS"This song brings me back to when I used to visit my daughters down in Ocean Beach, San Diego. It has a total cruiser vibe as we used to drive up and down the shore as a family and go to these lookout points at the cliffs and enjoy magnificent sunsets colors by the ocean and watching the waves crashing into the rocks.
On October 15th and 16th, 2020, drummer Daniel Villarreal was joined by guitarist Jeff Parker and bassist Anna Butterss for two afternoons of recording in the backyard of Chicali Outpost in Los Angeles. For all three musicians, it was the first ensemble recording session they’d done in-person since the pandemic locked the world down just seven months prior. Some choice moments from these sessions made it onto Villarreal’s critically-acclaimed 2022 album Panamá 77, but most of the music remained unreleased.
Lados B is a deep dive into the high-level spontaneous music made by Villarreal, Parker, and Butterss across those two days in 2020. Villarreal is heard leading the group through various rhythmic modes and structures for improvisation – flow as informed by the Latin funk of Fania Records as it is by the otherworldly humanity trance of Brain Records – while Parker and Butterss draw on their extensive experience playing free together (as heard on Parker's recently-released Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy, and the LA side of Makaya McCraven's 2018 LP Universal Beings) to build harmonic buoys for their spontaneous melodicism. The result is a beautifully vivid illustration of context, creativity, and collective composition from a particularly rich moment in history.
DANIEL VILLARREAL ON "SUNSET CLIFFS"
This song brings me back to when I used to visit my daughters down in Ocean Beach, San Diego. It has a total cruiser vibe as we used to drive up and down the shore as a family and go to these lookout points at the cliffs and enjoy magnificent sunsets colors by the ocean and watching the waves crashing into the rocks.
US TOUR DATESWednesday, October 18th - Public Records - Brooklyn NY - Friday, October 20th - Solar Myth - Philadelphia PA - Saturday, October 21st - Solar Myth - Philadelphia PA -Friday, October 27th - Jack London Revue - Portland OR - Saturday, October 28th - Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts - Beverly Hills CA - Monday, October 30th - Yoshi's - Oakland CA -
Wednesday, October 18th - Public Records - Brooklyn NY - Friday, October 20th - Solar Myth - Philadelphia PA - Saturday, October 21st - Solar Myth - Philadelphia PA -Friday, October 27th - Jack London Revue - Portland OR - Saturday, October 28th - Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts - Beverly Hills CA - Monday, October 30th - Yoshi's - Oakland CA -
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/lados-b
― dow, Friday, 11 August 2023 23:47 (eight months ago) link
Yeeeeessssss I saw him play recently at my workplace and it was fantastic!! I love his whole vibe and the folks he plays with are also all top notch.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Saturday, 12 August 2023 03:15 (eight months ago) link
Finally got around to hearing the Mazurek/Locks thing and, I hate to say it, but man that is disappointing. If there were more of "Twilight Shimmer" type moments it would have been great, but this was kind of a letdown.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 August 2023 20:53 (eight months ago) link
got a promo of that Villareal album, it is fannnnnnntastic
― tylerw, Friday, 18 August 2023 20:58 (eight months ago) link
super stoked for that and the new Fly or Die
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 August 2023 21:03 (eight months ago) link
i just saw DV perform recently and -- as usual -- he was great! i extra enjoyed the extended solo. his band was absolutely smokin too.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 18 August 2023 21:13 (eight months ago) link
the bass player in particular but all of them were really fun to watch. he played two shows at the venue attached to my workplace and they were not esp well attended but that's everyone else's loss. lots of people don't know what they're missing.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 18 August 2023 21:15 (eight months ago) link
this Jaimie Branch record, wowwwww
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 27 August 2023 01:11 (seven months ago) link
Listening now, sounds great. I was so bummed out by her death. This must have been recorded just like a month after I saw her play.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 27 August 2023 01:46 (seven months ago) link
Finished listening and immediately started it again. Hot damn. I realize I'm in the buzz of first listen, but serious AOTY contender. All the parts of it work. She was so great, and what a band.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 27 August 2023 02:39 (seven months ago) link
sleeve and tipsy otm, listened to this loud in the car on a long ride home yesterday, what a blast!
― willem, Monday, 28 August 2023 20:29 (seven months ago) link
I love the way that Meat Puppets song is folded in there. I'd have to think a bit to articulate exactly why it fits, but it really does.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 28 August 2023 20:42 (seven months ago) link
yes indeed! Take Over The World!!
IA alumni, Irreversible Entanglements new album on Impulse! is also getting a lot of plays this week.
― stirmonster, Friday, 8 September 2023 18:52 (seven months ago) link
The new Alabaster DePlume record is really lovely, much better than the 'main' companion album the sessions came from imo
― 50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Friday, 8 September 2023 18:54 (seven months ago) link
very much looking forward to the Bex Burch album
― fetter, Friday, 8 September 2023 18:58 (seven months ago) link
I’m ok admitting I’m in love with the Jaimie Branch record — so great to hear her vocal and trumpet voice, hear body music with an improvisational bent, and I just love the whole thing. Finding myself wondering who tf is Bex Burch?
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 8 September 2023 19:31 (seven months ago) link
Looking forward to that one as well, not familiar but the preview tracks sound great
― 50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Friday, 8 September 2023 19:34 (seven months ago) link
IE are great and anything with Moor Mother rules, I forgot this group had been on International Anthem. Also love to see DC guy Luke Stewart get recognition and acclaim.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 8 September 2023 19:52 (seven months ago) link
Open the Gates might be my favorite IE release I've heard.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 8 September 2023 20:58 (seven months ago) link
My first encounter with Moor Mother was Art Ensemble of Chicago's We Are On The Edge: a cast of thousands, but she stood out among the standouts. Fave IE is still Who Sent You?, but haven't heard the latest yet.
― dow, Saturday, 9 September 2023 00:01 (seven months ago) link
Speaking of Bex Burch, got this today:
oday, composer, percussionist, producer and instrument maker Bex Burch (Flock, Vula Viel, Boing!) shares the second single “Don't go back to sleep” from her forthcoming LP, There is only love and fear, along with a music video she made herself.A twinkling piece of arcadian minimalism, “Don’t go back to sleep” eavesdrops on an electro-acoustic conversation with the avian world. Pulsing and playful, Burch and Dan Bitney (Tortoise) merge the organic qualities of synthesis with the synthetic qualities of the organic to create an intuitive tone poem that takes the rhythms and melodies of birdsong as its natural cue. Recorded at the Center of Search & Research where Burch was based while in Chicago, its homely feel bathes the track in dappled sunlight. Deceptively simple in its construction, “Don’t go back to sleep” is an invitation to wake up and listen to what is already out there.The music video for “Don’t go back to sleep,” created by Bex Burch, demonstrates the unspeakable beauty of nature’s synchrony and how it reflects in Bex’s and Dan’s interplay.
A twinkling piece of arcadian minimalism, “Don’t go back to sleep” eavesdrops on an electro-acoustic conversation with the avian world. Pulsing and playful, Burch and Dan Bitney (Tortoise) merge the organic qualities of synthesis with the synthetic qualities of the organic to create an intuitive tone poem that takes the rhythms and melodies of birdsong as its natural cue. Recorded at the Center of Search & Research where Burch was based while in Chicago, its homely feel bathes the track in dappled sunlight. Deceptively simple in its construction, “Don’t go back to sleep” is an invitation to wake up and listen to what is already out there.
The music video for “Don’t go back to sleep,” created by Bex Burch, demonstrates the unspeakable beauty of nature’s synchrony and how it reflects in Bex’s and Dan’s interplay.
Read the full story of the album by Emma Warren:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZO15FMKKByTAmHF4-yVuQwzSnnnh42bFy58YgzMbYp4/edit?pli=1
TOUR DATESOctober 13 - RIAA, Hamburg, Germany (Listening session w/ Bex Burch)October 20 - Cafe Oto, London, UKOctober 27 - King Georg, Cologne, GermanyOctober 30 - Rhinoçéros, Berlin, Germany (Listening session w/ Bex Burch)November 03 - ÜBERJAZZ Festival, Hamburg, GermanyNovember 17 - Jazz Brugge, Belgium <<< for more information >>>Label: Scottie McNiece // scottie at intlanthem.com
<<< for more information >>>Label: Scottie McNiece // scottie at intlanthem.com
― dow, Saturday, 9 September 2023 01:56 (seven months ago) link
Not sure if gossip is welcome here, but I heard that Andre 3000 is working on an album for International Anthem
― bbq, Friday, 22 September 2023 06:54 (seven months ago) link
:0
― sean gramophone, Friday, 22 September 2023 12:39 (seven months ago) link
I can see it, he's already guested on an IA record (I think it was Carlos Ninos?).
― 50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2023 13:17 (seven months ago) link
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, August 26, 2023 9:11 PM (three weeks ago)
finally got around to listening to this (extremely hectic fall here) and it is so great!
― rob, Friday, 22 September 2023 13:36 (seven months ago) link
^
― Indexed, Monday, 25 September 2023 17:58 (seven months ago) link
picked up the LP over the weekend and the cover is astonishingly gorgeous
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 25 September 2023 18:20 (seven months ago) link
The Daniel Villarreal / Jeff Parker / Anna Butterss record sounds fantastic so far.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 6 October 2023 15:18 (six months ago) link
agreed!
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 6 October 2023 17:22 (six months ago) link
as does the new Jeremiah Chiu!
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/in-electric-time
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 6 October 2023 17:27 (six months ago) link
new Bex Burch also sounding great this morning, man this label!
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 20 October 2023 15:31 (six months ago) link
Really lovely, yeah.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2023 15:37 (six months ago) link
I didn't realize Bex Burch was also involved in the Flock album from last year that I really liked.
https://flock.bandcamp.com/album/flock-2
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 20 October 2023 15:47 (six months ago) link
I’m off to see Bex Burch tonight and am looking forward to it a great deal. “Messy minimalism”, yes please.
― Tim, Friday, 20 October 2023 16:05 (six months ago) link
Bex Burch was every bit as good as I’d hoped. The show was mostly solo with some interjections on violin. They encored with a version of “O Superman”, using whatever member of the xylophone family she was playing. I couldn’t believe my luck. That verse that starts “When love is gone, there’s always justice” always seemed like a punch in the guts to me- now, more than ever.
― Tim, Friday, 20 October 2023 20:55 (six months ago) link
unperson recommended the new Thandi Ntuli with Carlos Niño record on another thread. Absolutely lovely Sunday morning music and I imagine just excellent at other times. Ordered a copy.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 19 November 2023 12:47 (five months ago) link
new chiu, honer & kalma 👌🏽
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Friday, 16 February 2024 19:20 (two months ago) link
Yes, real good.
― three of the doctor's valuable bats are now dead (broom air), Friday, 16 February 2024 22:06 (two months ago) link
otm x2
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Monday, 19 February 2024 18:59 (two months ago) link
yeah, I was underwhelmed by Recordings from the Åland Islands, but this is beautifully immersive
― rob, Monday, 19 February 2024 23:08 (two months ago) link
Anyone else enjoying the new Villarreal/VV Lightbody Valebol album? I’m absolutely loving it — so springy, reminds me of Antena
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 13:06 (two weeks ago) link
It’s very accessible and I can see people well outside the IA world enjoying it.
This one (Row Row Row) is my favorite so far https://open.spotify.com/track/3UZv2dCGfVS1cllt4oVPhO?si=b592c32c71fe4934
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 13:37 (two weeks ago) link
Woops this is not released via IA — a different label called Otherly Love Records It’s still good!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:54 (two weeks ago) link
agreed, really enjoyed that one. thanks for the mixup haha
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Sunday, 14 April 2024 20:49 (one week ago) link
This is really fun, thanks LL! Her voice reminds me of someone. I want to say Liz Fraser?
― rob, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 00:38 (one week ago) link
Always I am mixing up this label with the very different but equally good Imaginational Anthem label.
― henry s, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 15:16 (one week ago) link