Just got done burning through this stunner from SYCH on Chris Scofield’s Strange Attractors label. First, the nuts and bolts: SYCH features Wally Shoup (Seattle free-jazz mainstay), C. Spencer Yeh (of Burning Star Core and many, many great solo outings), Chris Corsano (of Rangda), and Bill Horist (a west coast improvisational guitarist). In other words, [...]
One of the finest Record Store Day releases right here, in our humble opinion. FlyLo’s Alt Takes reads through like a rudimentary sketchbook of the excellent Cosmogramma album. Considering that album is bursting out the seams with ideas, then this stripped down affair is also quite a delight – perfect, zoned-in vibes. A fantastic release for [...]
I’m beyond blown away by the two streaming tracks from The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble’s new album, “From The Stairwell”. Referencing everything that is great about jazz, psychedelia, and late-90′s-Ninja-Tune, then shrouding it all in a cloud of black smoke, this new one is as much an exercise in beauty as it is in darkness. I [...]
After floating around for six years without a vinyl release, Gonzales’ “Solo Piano” has finally been issued on our favorite format. Considered one of the best piano jazz albums of the modern day, this one should impress even genre naysayers. Do some reading around the internet about this record, it’s truly an anomaly that noone [...]
Minneapolis’ own crate-digging powerhouse, De Stijl Records, just put out two fresh new slabs of vinyl. Charlie Nothing’s “Outside/Inside” is second (and last) album he ever recorded, originally put to tape in 1969. Mr. Nothing completely shreds the saxophone, landing somewhere along the outer edges of the free-jazz spectrum. The LP is $16 shipped. The [...]
You know what, god bless anyone putting their hard-earned money into reissuing obscure 70′s jazz fusion albums. Porter Records, our hats go off to you. Finnish musician Eero Koivistoinen’s “3rd Version”, released in 1973, was his 7th album. Instead of rounding up seasoned fusion players, he instead recruited a handful of virtuosic geniuses from the [...]
The two new releases on Denovali have a lot in common. They’re both dark, jazzy trip-hop records. They’re also both a couple of years old, but are seeing a vinyl release for the first time ever. Blackfilm’s self-titled debut came out on cd from a Greek label of couple of years back and sold out [...]
Remy LBO, normally known for his electronic beat work, holed up in an Oregon cabin last winter to create something loose, spontaneous, and decidedly more organic. “Umpqua Fire” is exactly all of those things, a record that should easily please fans of Madlib’s forays into jazz and funk. The vinyl (limited to 300 copies and [...]
Minneapolis’ Taiga Records releases some of the most abstract, challenging music you’ll hear anywhere. Before we start, this stuff is all pretty bizarre, if you’re not a fan of experimentation, don’t even read any further. Their first new release is Timeless Pulse’s “Trio”. Focused around the accordion work of Pauline Oliveros, this usual quintet has [...]
A reader tipped us off to this new vinyl issue of Joshua Abrams’ “Natural Information”. Abrams is a bassist, composer, and product of the experimental music scene in Chicago. The passages here are heavy on percussion and improvisation, exploring the outer edges of jazz. The LP is fairly pricey at $25, but the sounds are [...]
