International Anthem: S/D

New Irreversible Entanglements is sounding pretty sick!

Waiting for my CD to get here in a couple of days, stoked to hear it. This label.

it's ridiculous how many extremely good albums from the last few years feature Luke Stewart as a bass player.

Yeah, the Irreversible Entanglements album is great, maybe my favorite IA release of the year.

Kicking myself for missing them at Big Ears. I saw Moor Mother's solo set, which was fiery, but not with the band.

Another huge thumbs up for Irreversible Entanglements.

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.

late pass on angel bat dawid, this is liquid fire
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/black-family-2

Jeff Parker's new one is a solo acoustic folky thing, by the look of it. New Ben Lamar Gay is wonderful.

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!

solo acoustic folky thing
it's solo but it's not acoustic or really folky

Very excited about solo Parker, love the preview track (very patient and loop-based, duetting with himself)

Truly a miraculous year for this label. I just listened to the Jamire Williams album; naturally, it's excellent. The Parker is up next

incredible run in '21.

Yes the Jamire Williams is great!

Every album a must buy

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

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.

i should say motorik -- krautrock is too vague

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

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

I am interested and that looks amazing, thank you!

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")

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.

enjoying "recordings from the åland islands"

Same, very lovely. Would have been a big lockdown record.

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.

Speaking of new age knob twiddle, have you heard this, forks? Pasted way upthread from Rolling Jazz 2021:
More Energy Fields, Current
by Carlos Niño & Friends
Tagged 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.

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

Also now I see Carlos has his own Bandcamp page, with lots more to check out.

new to me but will add to the playlist!

LOVING THIS https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/panam-77

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.

yeah this is fannnnnntastic

This album is so freaking good. It reminds me of George Braith's Musart, which is one of my favorite albums of all time.

Which for some reason is not on streaming afaik.

yeah I dig the Panama 77 album! thx for the rec, LL

absolute bliss listening to this outside yesterday as the sun set

I love Jeff Parker's contributions to this

In/On is soooo good

wow the hits just keep coming, psyched for this:

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/extra-presence

And the Charles Stepney archival collection is now fully up for preorder

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/step-on-step

new Carlos Nino album "Extra Presence" is fantastic FYI

astonishing list of collaborators including Iasos, Laraaji, Shabazz Palaces, and a bunch of other folks

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/extra-presence

Carlos Niño & Friends

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.

Premiere of a new Angel Bat Dawid composition streaming here tonight (Saturday 8/20):

https://m.twitch.tv/elasticartschicago

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 🥲

I kinda can't believe this. Shocked. What a loss.

just terrible news

what the hell

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.

this sucks so much