Bought the Maisha and Kamaal Williams albums yesterday. Both very very fine.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 14 February 2019 22:24 (five years ago) link
Rye Lane Shuffle is fantastic - reminds me of MRA by Brotherhood of Breath. Theon Cross is also on the new Seed Ensemble album along with a lot of other members of the scene.
― fetter, Friday, 15 February 2019 11:28 (five years ago) link
new s/t Kokoroko (afro-beat 8-piece led by London trumpet player Sheila Maurice-Grey) ep is really good.
― calzino, Sunday, 24 February 2019 12:29 (five years ago) link
xps
yeah that tuba-tastic Theon Cross album is excellent as well.
― calzino, Monday, 25 February 2019 11:07 (five years ago) link
I love this scene so much. It is so great to have jazz that is alive, culturally grounded and in dialog with the music around it.
Kokoroko album is tremendous.
I really need to get to some gigs next time I'm in London.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 04:20 (five years ago) link
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/binker-golding-elliot-galvin-ex-nihilo/716654-01/
fantastic improv album with Binker Golding/Elliot Galvin that seems to have gone under the radar, it's hard to keep up with this lot.
― calzino, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 09:01 (five years ago) link
The Theon Cross and Moses Boyd albums are both excellent. I think I prefer the Theon record aesthetically in general but Moses definitely has higher highs.
Also the N171 was my teenage night bus so I'm feeling mad affinity for that particularly Moses Boyd track. This scene in general could use more singers.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 09:16 (five years ago) link
The local references are unsurprisingly appealing to me too - Rye Lane itself is closed to through traffic for the whole of 2019 so it is unusually shuffle-y at the moment, though the diversion on the number 63 is irritating.
Also "Marooned in SE6" made me laugh - you can always walk through Nunhead, dude, it's not so tricky.
― Tim, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 09:40 (five years ago) link
Moses Boyd is from Catford so going through Nunhead might not help matters. He's probably just stuck living with his parents or something.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 09:45 (five years ago) link
there can never be enough twin drum/bass/tuba combos for my liking.
― calzino, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 09:46 (five years ago) link
or is the tuba the bass, my ears deceive me!
― calzino, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 09:47 (five years ago) link
It seems the BBC radio documentary from last year on the London jazz scene didn’t get posted to this thread.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000t6b
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 10:12 (five years ago) link
going off-topic here - but on a similarish tip to the Theon Cross alb is the excellent Portuguese Tuba/Guitar/Drum trio TGB whose ace TGB III album has just dropped on Clean Feed.
― calzino, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 10:56 (five years ago) link
I think he's running his tuba through a load of effects pedals to get some of those sounds, it's insane.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 11:05 (five years ago) link
Listening to 'Drum Dance' on the Moses Boyd album now and just texturally it's incredible. Weirdly what it reminds me most of Henrik Schwarz which I'm sure is a complete coincidence and a matter of shared source material.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 11:36 (five years ago) link
I'll have to be the contrarian here; Theon Cross's tuba annoys me on both his album, and on the Sons Of Kemet. Perhaps I just don't like tubas.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 14:27 (five years ago) link
http://cdn5.coloringcrew.com/coloring-book/painted/201048/297b6e6f8d9a94e648c9f8dace1dffd6.png
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 14:31 (five years ago) link
I guess you’re not gonna fly to New Orleans and catch a brass band with a tuba in a second line parade either. Oh well.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
I'll have to be the contrarian here; Theon Cross's tuba annoys me on both his album, and on the Sons Of Kemet. Perhaps I just don't like tubas.― mike t-diva
― mike t-diva
― enochroot, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 17:13 (five years ago) link
xp - oh God, don't get me started on Hot 8!
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
utter savagery!
― calzino, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
i like tubas
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
more jazz tubas please
― adam, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
Yeah, you anti-tuba people are insane.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
tubas are great, though I can't deny that they, like harps, have accumulated some unfortunate cultural baggage
where are people hearing the Kokoroko album? doesn't seem to be out here in Canada yet
― rob, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
It comes out on Friday 3/8. I got a promo. One track is streaming on Bandcamp:
https://kokoroko.bandcamp.com/
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 18:46 (five years ago) link
yeah I've heard that track (plus Abusey Junction ofc), just seemed liked people were praising the whole ep--maybe more of you are critics than I realized
― rob, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
or nabbed it on SLSK 😈
― calzino, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
Two tracks of the EP Re on Apple Music.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 19:57 (five years ago) link
The other track I’ve really liked from this scene is Pineapple by Blue Lab Beats featuring Moses Boyd. Delightful melting pot of house, afrobeat, high life and jazz.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 23:14 (five years ago) link
I will defend the honor of tubas against all challengers
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Thursday, 28 February 2019 23:54 (five years ago) link
I won’t say that jazz bands lead by bass instrument players are always better, but they often are.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 1 March 2019 01:22 (five years ago) link
I saw Oscar Jerome live in Hackney last week; he plays guitar in Kokoroko, but mainly releases stuff under his own name (w/Joe Armon-Jones, Moses Boyd etc). Reminds me a lot of "One World" era John Martyn - that jazzy, dubby, spacey vibe. Great stuff, and he looks about 16.
― fetter, Friday, 1 March 2019 07:49 (five years ago) link
I could take or leave the tuba on Fyah, love the saxophone player
― jazzed (it's a boy!), Saturday, 2 March 2019 03:23 (five years ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/07/700510300/first-listen-the-comet-is-coming-trust-in-the-lifeforce-of-the-deep-mystery
I thought I should post this here as well for UK headz: Shabaka Hutchings "Vangelis/Spiritual Jazz" project, full album streaming on NPR.
― calzino, Saturday, 9 March 2019 13:23 (five years ago) link
N had CBeebies on the other day and it was a program called Band Jam all about music, and both the tuba players who’ve been in SoK were on! Which was unexpected but cool. N was not impressed that I have records by them and have seen them live.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 9 March 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
Full astral flying album is now on iTunes. It definitely has its moments but there is some pretty ropey drumming in places.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 15 March 2019 05:53 (five years ago) link
I interviewed all 3 members of The Comet Is Coming for Tidal:
http://read.tidal.com/article/comet-is-coming-afro-futurism-2
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 16 March 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
Some of the Comet album is kinda ragged but damn when it flies. It's a fool's game to summon Ayler but there he is and The Universe Wakes Up damn near makes the top of my head come off.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Sunday, 17 March 2019 12:19 (five years ago) link
I'm seeing them in NYC tomorrow night - looking forward to it.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 17 March 2019 12:31 (five years ago) link
I am envious. Great interview too, cheers.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Sunday, 17 March 2019 12:32 (five years ago) link
Is that show sold out do you know?
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2019 13:17 (five years ago) link
The club's website says it is, but who knows? You might get in if you just walk up. They're also playing Philadelphia on Wednesday, if that's accessible to you.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 17 March 2019 13:38 (five years ago) link
Thanks. Monday nights not usually good for me and friend who was interested in going has something else but maybe I’ll just call an audible tomorrow and walk up if I feel like it.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2019 13:47 (five years ago) link
Anyway I just went to website and it seemed to say SOLD OUT. Looking forward to your report later in the week;)
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2019 13:50 (five years ago) link
The moment when Super Zodiac peaks is incredible.
― Matt DC, Monday, 18 March 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
Love the new Comet album, even (especially?) when it is very corny.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
Nearest gig to me is in japan but too early for me to be in Japan. I would like to see them live.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link
Gig last night was great. Dan Leavers (keyboardist) took a very long, Alice Coltrane-ish (in devotional mode) unaccompanied solo at one point; by contrast, when Hutchings was playing unaccompanied, he basically repeated one phrase with more and more energy until people's heads were on the brink of exploding. Bliss vs. mania, basically.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 21:00 (five years ago) link
In DC Thursday.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 12:46 (five years ago) link