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Some of the finest, clearest compositions for octet ensembles. From the very beginning of Spirit Splitter, I'm hooked.
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Pillars
by Tyshawn Sorey
supported by 64 fans who also own “Navigation (The Complete Firehouse 12 Recordings)”
Total mastery of patience, time, and drama create a constantly engaging journey that never gets tiresome or same-y: in fact the harder you listen the better it gets! Somehow Sorey et al. find a way to combine the deep listening and spontaneous interaction of the best jazz with the sense of every tone and sound being worth a universe of listening, which could be equally from Cage and Feldman or the accompaniment to an ancient ritual. The recording/engineering is absolutely perfect as well.
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Meltframe
by Mary Halvorson
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The guitarists first solo album (like the actors first Hamlet) is a hoop that eventually has to be jumped through...and Mary Halvorson has finally risen to the challenge...a truly brilliant improviser and technician (I remember being knocked out by a performance she gave with Anthony Braxton in London),she has added layers of emotional and spiritual patina to those skills...the pre-release track here demonstrates all those qualities in spades...I see this release will include work by Noel Akchote (whose music plays a key part in my listening regime)... So,until its release "I eat the air,promise crammed"... Update! This album is now released and I can "count myself King of infinite riches"...this release catapults Mary Halvorson into a different league for me...wonderful,wonderful,wonderful!
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Jesup Wagon
by James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet
featured on Bandcamp Radio May 11, 2021
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Protean Labyrinth
by Kyoko Kitamura
The musician shines brightly on this experimental jazz/classical hybrid.
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I Insist
by Kazemde George
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Code Girl
by Mary Halvorson
supported by 59 fans who also own “Navigation (The Complete Firehouse 12 Recordings)”
Angular, glitchy avant-jazz. This is foreground music, highly recommended.
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