International Anthem: S/D

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

Oh no that is awful and shocking news

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.

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.

What the fuck

only 39, fucking hell

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2WTLKvbhWA

an absolute and gutting loss; she should've had decades of great albums ahead.

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..."

No!

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

just heard. so sad. so young!

Sweet post by Alabaster dePlume (saw them play together at Big Ears too): https://www.facebook.com/100057753771232/posts/pfbid0E1D2NzQpXReurcDBryXvTSY9Bje7febpxNN9tEdEbtLv2Mn9khbTf2Zdu8tRk2cul/?d=n

https://chicagoreader.com/music/jaimie-branch-has-flown-away-too-soon

Written by someone who knows everyone, worth a read

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.

"they think they run this shit" is the quote that keeps sticking with me

(from the live album)

https://aquilesnavarro.bandcamp.com/track/el-amor-que-ella-te-dio-para-jaimie-branch

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/

personnel (and colored vinyl) are on the International Anthem page for the album ():

Tom Skinner – Drums
Kareem Dayes – Cello
Nubya Garcia – Tenor saxophone and flute
Tom Herbert – Acoustic bass
Shabaka Hutchings – Tenor saxophone and bass clarinet

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/voices-of-bishara?

Ah, I didn't see I'd defaulted back to the main artist page. Well, the preview track is good!