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.
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.
― 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