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jgthirlwell · 26 days
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04.02.24 Darius Jones and Tomas Fujiwara at Ava Mendoza's curated series at Union Pool in Brooklyn
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soundgrammar · 8 months
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Listen/purchase: Pack Up, Coming For You by Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double
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dustedmagazine · 1 year
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Dust Volume 9, Number 3
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As AI takes over the creative professions, it may seem pointless for actual, struggling human beings to sit down to listen to music made by other human beings, to think about what they hear and to string together sentences about how they felt about that music and what it means. But, in a sense, Dusted has always been a bit pointless, as have many of the under-heard, under-loved musics we follow. Still, since there’s no money in it, we can’t be starved out. We may not win an us-against-the-machines battle, but there’s no reason to surrender. And so, this month, we gather our low-tech resources to consider another batch of excellent, under-the-radar releases from folk artists and metal thrashers, jazz improvisers and pop craftspeople. Contributors include Bill Meyer, Ian Mathers, Jennifer Kelly, Justin Cober-Lake, Jonathan Shaw, Tim Clarke, Bryon Hayes, Margaret Welsh and Andrew Forell—not a robot in the bunch.
Joseph Allred — What Strange Flowers In The Shade (Feeding Tube)
What Strange Flowers In The Shade by Joseph Allred
We’ll be dealing with the pandemic’s fallout for years to come, but some consequences are lined with silver. Locked up in a grad school apartment, Joseph Allred spent a lot of time getting acquainted with the less-handled items in their sizable collection of instruments. Best known as a mystical acoustic guitarist of the Takoma school and a spiritually astute singer, they also have a lengthy, if less documented, history of appreciating and performing plugged-in music. What Strange Flowers Grown In The Shade arose from Allred’s deep dive into the delights of effects pedals and a Fender Jaguar guitar. Bolstered by remote contributions by the Rolin-Powers Duo, Magic Tuber Stringband, and others, Allred set the sound-mixer for slow stir and the spotlight for the center of the resulting thick swirl. The outcome sounds a bit like Mike Cooper might if you packed him off to a cold, damp clime with nothing to play but choral recordings, and he embraced the circumstances (don’t try this at home, folks; Cooper would be more likely to embrace your neck with an asphyxiating grip if you did him such a disservice).
Bill Meyer  
 John Atkinson — Energy Fields (AKP Recordings)
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It may have taken John Atkinson just two weeks on a residency in Wyoming (surrounded by the sounds of coal mines, wind farms, oil refineries, and hydropower plants) to get all of the field recordings he microedited into the four tracks that make up Energy Fields, but it took him another two years to figure out how to stitch them together. In that time, his longstanding interest in both the manipulation of found/sourced sound and in climate issues haven’t exactly dated. On the industrial rumble of “Black Thunder” and the galvanizing drones of “Spiritual Electricity” you can practically see the extractive machinery Atkinson was surrounded with, whereas the record’s second half moves to a calmer, more meditative and even hopeful place. The results are evocative and sometimes troubling soundscapes deeply rooted in our current ecological moment.
Ian Mathers
 Emergency Group — Inspection of Cruelty (Island House)
Inspection Of Cruelty by Emergency Group
Two side-long slabs of fusion-y free improvisation are led by long-time Dusted favorite Jonathan Byerley (Plates of Cake and Anti-Westerns), with seasoned jazz players Robert Boston and Andreas Brade in tow. WFMU DJ, writer and bassist Dave Mandl rounds out the foursome. A 1970s futuristic cool hangs over the whole enterprise, in its chugging rhythms, its radiant runs of electric keyboards, its motorific jams. You are meant to sniff out hash-scented whiffs of Silent Way into Jack Johnson-era Miles Davis (despite the lack of brass) in all this, but Return to Forever is a closer match, and maybe CAN, too. There’s an underpinning of jazz, but it wigs way the fuck out from there. I’d give the edge to urgent, driving “Part 1,” nearly half an hour long but constantly evolving, ever fascinating. “Part 2” is shorter, but not by much, but also less visceral, more of a head piece. It dozes deep into a psychedelic dream, where fairy dust keyboard notes drift down from pastel skies, sparkling all the way, and deep pulses of bass power the machinery that makes the illusion work. I’ve never loved keyboard-heavy fusion but I like this, go figure.
Jennifer Kelly 
 Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double — March On (self-released)
March On by Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double
When percussionist Tomas Fujiwara convened his odd sextet a few years ago for their second album (2020's March), he had them record some extra material intended as segues between tracks. He decided the session warranted its own album, and new digital-only release March On centers on the 30-minute titular improv. The freedom of the set should suit fans of the artists involved (including Gerald Cleaver, Mary Halvorson, Brandon Seabrook, Taylor Ho Bynum and Ralph Alessi). Each of those musicians write and perform surprising, free-sounding music, but with careful composition structuring the adventures more carefully than might be expected. “March On” puts them in full improv mode, a task that succeeds largely because they've learned to interact so well with each other in a variety of ensembles over the past decade or so.
The Triple Double structure still holds, offering surprises in one level simply by changing configurations. The band's name suggests basketball, and the group plays a never-stagnating motion offense. We move from a horn duet to a guitar battle to a drum-guitar-trumpet trio with ease. Given the crowded space, each musician stays out of the others' way while still finding moments to become a focal point. The album closes with Halvorson and Seabrook briefly partnering for “Silhouettes,” 45 seconds of weird tone an unsettling conversation. It closes the album well, hinting at more mysteries within an ongoing conversation.
Justin Cober-Lake
 Full of Hell and Primitive Man — Suffocating Hallucination (Closed Casket Activities)
Suffocating Hallucination by Full of Hell & Primitive Man
A glib assessment of this collaboration between noisy grind band Full of Hell and the doomy monster that is Primitive Man might note: it’s 26 seconds of Full of Hell and 34 minutes of Primitive Man. For sure Suffocating Hallucination is dominated by the agonizing assaults of volume associated with Primitive Man’s excoriating, magma-paced music. But folks should recall just how adventurous the last few Full of Hell records have been, replete with excursions into hair-raising harsh noise and muscular hardcore. Open your ears to the textures of the record’s first two tracks (the sublimely titled “Trepanation for Future Joys” and the aptly titled “Rubble Home”) and you’ll hear both bands at work, responding to each other’s force and fury. Is that good? Depends on your appetite for unhappiness. This reviewer is compelled by the record’s final 18 minutes, in which the haunted factory sounds of “Dwindling Will” leach into the perversely magisterial “Tunnels to God.” As novelist Stephen Wright once observed, “If you can’t ascend, you might as well descend.” This music will get you there.
Jonathan Shaw
 Drew Gardner — The Return (Astral Spirits)
The Return by Drew Gardner
Folks following American “don’t call it primitive” guitar music have likely noted Drew Gardner’s redoubtably picking in Elkhorn, where he handles the usually-electric, six-string side of their bases-covered attack. Most folks don’t get to sound so sure in a minute, and it turns out that Gardner is a man with a past. He has been multi-instrumentalist since the 1980s, and during the mid-1990s he was an active participant in San Francisco’s free jazz scene. Around the same time, saxophonist John Tchicai had a teaching gig in Davis CA; he retained Gardner as a drummer, and when Gardner had a chance to record at Guerilla Euphonics in 1995, he returned the favor. Also on board were Church of John Coltrane alto saxophonist Roberto de Haven and, on one track, Marco Eneidi, also on alto. Gardner and bassist Vytas Nagisetty stoke the furnace, alternating a full head of steam with more judiciously applied rumblings, and the twinned reeds give Gardner’s themes a distinctly pre-electric Ornette feel. No doubt there’s a good reason why this music didn’t come out at the time, but it wasn’t on account of the music’s quality.
Bill Meyer
 Hourlope — Three Nights in the Wawayanda (self-released / Tymbal Tapes)
Three Nights in the Wawayanda by Hourloupe
Hourlope is a collaboration between Anar Badalov and Frank Menchaca, and Three Nights in the Wawayanda is the third part of an ambitious trilogy that began with Future Deserts, continued on Sleepwalker, and reaches its fantastical culmination here. Hourlope pair elusive electronic backing with Mechaca’s measured spoken word delivery, and the results are frequently beguiling. It feels like music from another time, both harking back to the origins of ambient electronica in the 1990s and reaching forward to imagine fresh new musical forms. The album’s finest moments are the more abstract, beatless pieces, such as the Fennesz-esque “Thumper,” and centerpiece “Green Navy/Rain,” a stunningly evocative two minutes in which Menchaca’s words perfectly complement the eerie atmosphere of the music.
Tim Clarke
Brett Naucke — Cast a Double Shadow (Ceremony of Seasons)
Cast A Double Shadow by Brett Naucke
Wine, beer and spirit clubs are not new, but the Asheville-based VISUALS winery is taking the concept beyond liquids with its Ritual of Senses club. It’s pairing rare, locally fermented products with components meant to delight the other senses. Packages are meant to arrive at the solstices and equinoxes and include a seasonally appropriate auditory component. Brett Naucke’s Cast a Double Shadow is included in the club’s winter solstice edition. Having spent most of his life near Chicago, the sound artist is now based in Asheville, hence his participation. Naucke blends a sonically diverse array of genetic material into a recombinant organism well-suited to survive the longest and coldest wintery night. Icy synths and brittle samples are bolstered by a lushness that carries a kernel of warmth inside of it. Bubbling arpeggios create the illusion of motion, and since a moving liquid cannot freeze, Naucke’s compositions remain lively amid the pervasive frostiness of the hibernal season. Those lucky enough to pair these ice-melting sounds with VISUALS’ liquid accompaniment will surely enjoy a synaesthetic intoxication. Imbibe responsibly, folks.
Bryon Hayes    
 The Natural Lines — S-T (Bella Union)
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Matt Pond may not be Matt Pond PA anymore, but he’s making the kind of clever, earnest indie rock as always, with some of the same people, notably Chris Hansen, his longtime guitarist and co-producer. This self-titled full length follows on the 2022 EP First Five, revisiting pensive, string-soothed “Spontaneous Skylights” and adding ten new warbly gems. “Monotony” feels like a COVID song, specifically a song about a musician’s experience of COVID, its clamped guitar stuttering as Pond sketches adapting to a smaller world. “When you start to think about the way you breathe, it doesn’t mean you believe in monotony,” he observes in a wavering voice that struggles to remain upbeat. But the music swells and with it, Pond finds his footing. “Climb the drums to feel the fall, stab the strings to feel anything,” he sings. Later, “A Scene That Will Never Die” turns moody introspection into bell-clear, chiming triumph. Pond’s voice is always bruised, rueful, real, but the music surges in waves of joy. If you’re still climbing out of the last couple of years, take heart. Matt Pond is, too, and he’s got a new band and an album to help.
Jennifer Kelly
 No Cosmos — you iii everything else (Lighter Than Air)
You iii everything else by No Cosmos
Montrealean jazz trumpet player Scott Bevins inhabits a fluid convergence of jazz, electronics and R&B in this eight-song debut, drawing out languid, lucid melodies in brass and roughing them up with a battery of percussion from drummer Kyle Hutchins. Bright, reiterative bell-tones frame “kindergentlepatient” in Reichian pointillism, but the trumpet rings out a long-noted, clarion melody, a little echo clinging to it like a shadow, flickering underneath. “Almost Lost You,” an early single, slaps a slinky downtempo beat onto musing post-Miles cool, and floats traceries of soul vocals over its slouching groove. Less overtly accessible, but ultimately more rewarding, “0 to me to me to me,” ruptures its Rhodes-chilled serenity with continual explosions of drumming. I like it best when Bevins lets the chaos slips into his stylized precision.
Jennifer Kelly
Party of the Sun — Capsule III EP (Trailing Twelve)
Capsule III by Party of the Sun
Backwoods psychedelia springs up like mushrooms in the wilder parts of northern New England. Party of the Sun, an acid folk trio from the Monadnock Region (where yrs truly also resides), made these gently expansive tunes on a working sheep farm, following in the muck crusted footsteps of MV+EE, Sunburned and Akron/Family. Akron/Family, admittedly, hailed from New York, but the resonance is strong anyway, especially to that first slow-burning album, where the creak of rocking chairs, the rumble of thunder, seeped into translucent, transcendent melody. Here, “See Space” is all murmur-y, sunlit radiance, guitar and keyboards picking out glittering patterns under Ethan McBrien’s soft, considering tenor. “Forget Me Knot” coalesces out of a cloud of buzzing sonics, warm, widely spaced guitar chords emerging like the emerging light of morning. Harmonies swell, in a natural way, and drums thump up a climax, as the song balloons from quiet contemplation to something epic. “Smoke Bush,” with its subtle thread of female harmonies, eddies and swirls and lilts like a lost 1960s folk off-take. These tunes grow naturally out of reverie and solitude, but they don’t stay that way. They invite you in.
Jennifer Kelly
 Anastassis Philippakopoulos — piano1 piano2 piano3 (Edition Wandelweiser Records)
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2020 was a rotten time for too many things to count, but it was a great time to stop and settle into some new music. That opportunity could not have been on anyone’s mind when Elsewhere Music released Anastassis Philippakopoulos: piano works mere weeks before the lockdowns began, but it was a perfect response to the moment. The Greek composer’s compositions, as performed by Melaine Dalibert, were distillations of reflection and deliberate action. This album, which contains earlier works performed by a different pianist, exchanges pith for elongation, but in other respects it’s a continuation of Philippakopoulos’s poetic dialogue between profound silence and unassumingly beautiful sound. Each note bears the weight of consideration, as though the composer carried out a moral inventory before committing to its placement in moderate proximity to another one, and the restrained touch of Serbian pianist Teodora Stepančić honors the music’s austerity.
Bill Meyer 
 Sif — Darkstalker (Self-released)
Darkstalker by Sif
Nuthin’ fancy here, folks, just 25 minutes of satisfying blackened doom. Richard Murphy has been making records as Sif for a few years, and the project has gotten progressively heavier, shifting from bummer drone meditations to this current thumping and crunching incarnation. The tape’s opening track “Kingseeker” slowly morphs from a repetitive churn to a sludgy groove, which situates the sounds in Louisiana’s long metal tradition (just what goes on down there?). It’s beautifully paced and just recalcitrant enough to insist on returning to the opening riff, rather than seeking any sort of catharsis. The title track spends some time foregrounding Murphy’s chops on bass, with the sort of heaviosity-worship one associates with Conan. Tremolos and more varied textures eventually cut into the song, with some heroic intent. But mostly Murphy wants to wield tone like a mace to your forehead. Hit me again, man. It’s good.
Jonathan Shaw
 Ultrabonus — El Gimnasio en Casa (Kitchen Leg)
EL GIMNASIO EN LA CASA VOL.1 by ¡ULTRABONUS!
Recorded a lifetime ago (well, in 2020, same difference) and released this past December, the unprocessed immediacy of El Gimnasio en Casa bears no left-in-the-can staleness. Berlin-based, multi-national four-piece Ultrabonus offers brief, melodic garage-punk tunes delivered with crisp, swaggery style by Argentina native Ignatz B. The title charmingly translates to “the home gym,” and the sunny lo-fi psychedelia is appropriately threaded through with calisthenic noodling. Nothing groundbreaking here, but Ultrabonus does what it does very well. Fun, cool stuff.
Margaret Welsh
  99Letters — Makafushigi (Disciples)
Makafushigi by 99LETTERS
Japanese producer Takahiro Kinoshita’s companion piece to his 2022 Kaibou Zukan (Anatomy Picture Book) takes his concept of gagaku techno into a seamy, industrial and far darker direction. Makafushigi (Mystery Tape) is, like its predecessor, built on samples of traditional instruments and vocal styles used in Japanese Imperial Court music. Introduced from Chinese and Korean sources, Gagaku music has continued under Imperial patronage since the 10th century. As 99Letters, Kinoshita fuses these ancient sounds with modern electronic music in ways that are as malevolent as the demons of mythology and as sinister as the underbelly of organized crime and ultranationalism in contemporary Japan. The tracks on Makafushigi are washed in a seamy mix of grit and clamor, a grim, grimy world of back alleys, dingy bars and low-tech manufacturing. It’s a haunted netherworld as alienating as it’s compelling. Fans of Haxan Cloak & Demdike Stare will find much to like here.
Andrew Forell
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nonesuchrecords · 2 years
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Guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson has released a video of her performing her song "Night Shift" live with a newly formed sextet of master improvisers—Patricia Brennan on vibraphone, Nick Dunston on bass, Tomas Fujiwara on drums, Jacob Garchik on trombone, and Adam O’Farrill on trumpet—at Roulette in Brooklyn in September 2021. The performance took place just three days before the musicians recorded the piece for Amaryllis, one of Halvorson’s two Nonesuch debut albums, along with Belladonna, released this past May.
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sinceileftyoublog · 3 months
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Mary Halvorson Album Review: Cloudward
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BY JORDAN MAINZER
Jazz guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson doesn't demand attention--as a listener, you give it to her anyway. Her latest album Cloudward features eight new compositions from the Amaryllis sextet, the same group featured on her excellent dual 2022 releases Amaryllis and Belladonna. Largely written in 2022 and inspired by post-pandemic optimism, the album title refers to flying on planes, an aspect of pre-pandemic life that returned despite our world never again being the same. Indeed, you could say the songs recall various stages of flight, from ascent and descent to coasting and turbulence, but in a broader sense, they simply show off Halvorson's incredible ability to foster something organic.
For much of Cloudward, Halvorson retreats into the background. Opener "The Gate" features Patricia Brennan's vibraphones in unison with the horn section, Nick Dunston's bass and Tomas Fujiwara's drums sneaking behind. Halvorson's trademark wiry playing peeps out from underground but doesn't assert itself to distract from Fujiwara's immaculate tempo changes or Jacob Garchik's trombone. Similarly, when Halvorson enters on "Collapsing Mouth", it's minimal and subtle, making room for Brennan panning around the horn section, and the rhythm section. Halvorson simply creeps on "Unscrolling", a song whose title I like to think pays tribute to the plane as the last place many of us can't or don't want to access the Internet. Its gongs and rippling cymbals contrast both the gorgeous brass harmonies and Dunston's moaning bowed bass, an exercise in deep listening if there ever was one. And then there's the Laurie Anderson-featuring "Incarnadine", a song that plays with your perception to the point you want to go even further down its rabbit hole. Atonal strings sound like they're being sucked out of the air and spit into another dimension; you're not sure whether the horn-like sounds are from effects or the featured players themselves, the entire track an alluring mystery.
Even on the tracks where Halvorson places her guitar front and center, she creates an atmosphere for all of the instruments to play off of each other. "The Tower" starts with prickly, echoing picking that turns chaotic and spidery--similar to Dunston's bass on "Unscrolling"--and eventually slows down to let vibes through the door along with Fujiwara's washy brushwork and the horn section. As the song builds, it sounds like the instruments are ricocheting off of each other. When it slows, it's delightfully woozy and harmonic. By the end, you realize Halvorson's beginning, alternating between abstraction and tactility, had set the stage for the rest of the song. On "Desiderata", the space between her guitar rhythms and Fujiwara's drums creates a funky sway, Brennan's vibes the first lead instrument. Halvorson crawls along horn lines before unleashing a crunchy, effects-laden solo, her one time to shred. On closer "Ultramarine", her playing emulates Dunston's upright bass solo to the point where it creates a pseudo blues vamp. Later, her bends emphasize the woozy quality of the horns, making space for Adam O'Farrill's trumpet solo. The song exemplifies the ultimate paradox of Cloudward in general: As players enter, the songs feel no less spacious, and no less empty as players leave. Halvorson creates a sort of static motion, like you're suspended in air while tunneling through space and time, on a plane in the sky.
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jazzdailyblog · 7 months
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Mary Halvorson: A Trailblazing Voice in Avant-Garde Jazz
Introduction: Certain artists emerged as pioneers in the world of contemporary jazz, pushing limits and changing the genre. Mary Halvorson is without a doubt one of these trailblazers. Halvorson has carved herself a unique position in the realm of avant-garde jazz with her distinctive approach to guitar playing and fondness for unusual sounds. This blog post will go into Mary Halvorson’s life,…
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diyeipetea · 2 years
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Jazz Para Ti 77: novedades del azar. JPT.T4.18 [Podcast de jazz] Por Pachi Tapiz
Jazz Para Ti 77: novedades del azar. JPT.T4.18 [Podcast de jazz] Por Pachi Tapiz
Jazz Para Ti 77: novedades Continúa la temporada de Jazz Para Ti… hay veces en que el azar es el responsable irresponsable de lo que ocurre… En la entrega número 77 suena música de las siguientes grabaciones: Dave Gisler Trio with Jaimie Branch and David Murray: See You Out There (Intakt, 2022) Adriano Tortora Trio: Choret (Sedajazz Records, 2021) Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double: March (Firehouse…
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tomatoliciousheya · 2 years
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white-cat-of-doom · 1 year
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Today is Neko no Hi (猫の日) in Japan, otherwise known as National Cat Day, which takes place every 22nd of February, as the date resembles the words "nyan nyan nyan" (meow meow meow) in Japanese.
The Shiki Theatre Group shared some performance photos from Nagoya in honour of the special day!
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The Naming of Cats
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The Jellicle Ball
The Naming of Cats cast:
Akito Iwamura as Mistoffelees, Ayaka Yoshida as Jellylorum, Cezary Modzelewski as Chorus Tugger, Hikari Ono as Demeter, Hiroki Terunuma as Carbucketty, Hitomi Sekino as Victoria, Ippei Sagehashi as Chorus Macavity, Junpei Wakebe as Munkustrap, Kaisaer Tatike as Skimbleshanks, Kanako Fujiwara as Sillabub, Mai Usami as Tantomile, Masae Ebata as Babygriz, Ryudo Tsutaki as Mungojerrie, Ryujiro Isshiki as Coricopat, Saaya Azuma as Rumpleteazer, Shoyo Kamitani as Rumpus Cat, Toma Masaki as Asparagus, Yujin Haga as Gilbert, Yuki Hirai as Jemima, Yuma Ishida as Tumblebrutus, Yurie Sato as Bombalurina, and Yuriko Yamada as Cassandra.
The Jellicle Ball cast:
Hitomi Sekino as Victoria, Junpei Wakebe as Munkustrap, Kanako Fujiwara as Sillabub, Mayumi Fujita as Demeter, Mitsuha Kojima as Bombalurina, Namiko Hanada as Jennyanydots, So Yokoi as Mistoffelees, and Yuki Hirai as Jemima.
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100 of my favorite non hip hop releases from 2022. I made a seperate list for hip hop already which you can find here if you’re interested. 2022 will go down as a memorable year for me not just for the sheer quantity of great releases, but also because i feel that all my of my favorite genres had a chance to shine. I started returning to my hardcore/punk/metal roots within the last couple years and 2022 was the first time in recent memory where I really felt like I was fully tapped in. There were so many highly anticipated releases from a ton of different artists last year, and the majority lived up to the hype for me. Grindcore, Mathcore, and Post-Hardcore seems to have been making a huge comeback with some incredible new efforts from modern genre staples like Wormrot, Callous Daoboys, Brutus, Greyhaven, Birds in row, Knoll, and Cloud Rat. Not to mention the much welcome return of some legendary acts including Gospel, Sawtooth Grin, and City of Caterpillar. I’m sure there’s plenty of stuff I missed out on too, so feel free to hit me with any recommendations you might have or just let me know what projects you enjoyed the most last year. Oh and you can also click the titles of any of these albums and it’ll take you to the bandcamp or spotify page where you can check them out if you’d like. Peace. Chart with album titles 1. Wormrot - Hiss 2. Alvvays - Blue Rev 3. Brutus - Unison Life 4. Cloud Rat - Threshold 5. Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow 6. Gospel - The Loser 7. Natalia Lafourcade - De todas las flores 8. Massa Nera - Derramar | Querer | Borrar 9. Messa - Close 10. Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems 11. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Omnium Gatherum 12. Cult of Luna - The Long Road North 13. tricot - Fudeki 14. White Ward - False Light 15. The Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist 16. The Sawtooth Grin - Good. 17. Ultha - All That Has Never Been True 18. Joel Ross - The Parable Of The Poet 19. Autonoesis - Moon of Foul Magics 20. Knoll - Metempiric 21. Joyce Moreno - Natureza 22. Birds in Row - Gris Klein 23. Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain 24. Wake - Thought Form Descent 25. Tómarúm - Ash In Realms Of Stone Icons 26. Greyhaven - This Bright and Beautiful World 27. Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen 28. Nilüfer Yanya - PAINLESS 29. Mary Halvorson - Amaryllis 30. Celeste - Assassine(s) 31. Naked Flames - Miracle in Transit 32. Elephant Gym - Dreams 33. Cave In - Heavy Pendulum 34. Silvana Estrada - Marchita 35. Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double - March 36. Imperial Triumphant - Spirit Of Ecstasy 37. Blind Girls - The Weight of Everything 38. Chat Pile - God's Country 39. fleshwater - We're Not Here to Be Loved 40. Fievel Is Glauque - Flaming Swords
41. Melody's Echo Chamber - Emotional Eternal 42. NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM - Set Chaos To The Heart Of The Moon 43. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava 44. An Abstract Illusion - Woe 45. Sigh - SHIKI 46. City of Caterpillar - Mystic Sisters 47. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You 48. Conjurer - Páthos 49. Kali Malone - Living Torch 50. Krallice - Crystalline Exhaustion 51. Aeviterne - The Ailing Facade 52. Scarcity - Aveilut 53. The Comet Is Coming - Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam 54. Makaya McCraven - In These Times 55. Misþyrming - Með hamri 56. Loraine James - Building Something Beautiful For Me 57. Knxwledge. - 家​.​V1 58. Hylda - Juniper Pyre 59. Gillian Carter - Salvation Through Misery 60. Beach House - Once Twice Melody 61. Angles - A Muted Reality 62. Hatchie - Giving The World Away 63. Daniel Rossen - You Belong There 64. Pyrithe - Monuments to Impermanence 65. Otoboke beaver - SUPER CHAMPON 66. The Orielles - Tableau 67. Sunrise Patriot Motion - Black Fellflower Stream 68. Blut aus Nord - Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses 69. Helpless - Caged In Gold 70. Immanuel Wilkins - The 7th Hand 71. Mizmor & Thou - Myopia 72. The Wind in the Trees - Architects of Light 73. Daniel Avery - Ultra Truth 74. Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory 75. Show Me The Body - Trouble The Water 76. Sault - 11 77. Bríi - Corpos Transparentes 78. Sweet Pill - Where the Heart Is 79. Vein.FM - This World is Going to Ruin You 80. Ravyn Lenae - Hypnos 81. Disheveled Cuss - Into the Couch 82. Aoife Nessa Frances - Protector 83. Niechęć - Unsubscribe 84. Elder - Innate Passage 85. Raum - Daughter 86. Viagra Boys - Cave World 87. Chalk Hands - Don't Think About Death 88. Boris - fade 89. Nouns - WHILE OF UNSOUND MIND 90. ANNA SAGE - Anna Sage 91. Nu Genea - Bar Mediterraneo 92. JYOCHO - Let's Promise to Be Happy 93. Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There 94. Waajeed - Memoirs of Hi-Tech Jazz 95. Petrol Girls - Baby 96. DIM - Steeped Sky, Stained Light 97. lilien rosarian - every flower in my garden 98. Work Money Death - Thought, Action, Reaction, Interaction 99. A.A. Williams - As The Moon Rests 100. Vital Spirit - Still as the Night, Cold as the Wind
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THE IDOLM@STER M@STERS OF IDOL WORLD!!!!! 2023
Information regarding the MOIW 2023 live has been revealed! The live will occur in the TOKYO DOME on the 11th and 12th of February 2023. This live will feature all five brands of IDOLM@STER on the stage together after 8 years.
The voice providers participating in this stop are as follows:
DAY 1&2
IDOLM@STER 765PRO ALL STARS  Eriko Nakamura (Haruka Amami), Asami Imai (Chihaya Kisaragi), Akiko Hasegawa (Miki Hoshii), Azumi Asakura (Yukiho Hagiwara), Mayako Nigo (Yayoi Takatsuki), Hiromi Hirata (Makoto Kikuchi), Naomi Wakabayashi (Ritsuko Akizuki), Asami Shimoda (Ami/Mami Futami), Manami Numakura (Hibiki Ganaha), Rie Kugimiya (Iori Minase)
DAY 1 ONLY
IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS  Triad Primus [Ayaka Fukuhara (Rin Shibuya), Eriko Matsui (Nao Kamiya), Mai Fuchigami (Karen Hojo)], Eldritch Loreteller [Haruka Chisuga (Ryo Matsunaga), Chiyo Ousaki (Koume Shirasaka)], Cyber Glass [Mina Nagashima (Haruna Kamijo), Rui Tanabe (Hina Araki)], Foreign Seaside [Nao Toyama (Mizuki Kawashima), Miharu Hanai (Tomoe Murakami)], from U149 [Asaka Imai (Chie Sasaki), Tomoyo Kurosawa (Miria Akagi), Hana Tamegai (Risa Matoba)]
IDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE  Strawberry Pop Moon [Haruka Yamazaki (Mirai Kasuga), Azusa Tadokoro (Shizuka Mogami), Machico (Tsubasa Ibuki)], TIntMe! [Eri Inagawa (Tamaki Ogami), Akari Harashima (Iku Nakatani), Keiko Watanabe (Momoko Suou)], HanaSakuya [Yuu Kahara (Emily Stewart), Saki Minami (Tsumugi Shiraishi), Kotori Koiwai (Tomoka Tenkubashi)], Cleasky [Asuka Kakumoto (Elena Shimabara), Chouchou Kiritani (Miya Miyao)]
IDOLM@STER SideM  DRAMATIC STARS [Shugo Nakamura (Teru Tendo)], Jupiter [Takuma Terashima (Toma Amagase), Daichi Kanbara (Hokuto Ijuin)], Beit [Shun Horie (Pierre), Tomohito Takatsuka (Minori Watanabe)], MofuMofuEn [Shogo Yano (Nao Okamura), Keisuke Furuhata (Shiro Tachibana)], C.FIRST [Yuri Ise (Shu Amamine), Masaya Miyakaze (Momohito Hanazono), Takeo Otsuka (Eishin Mayumi)]
IDOLM@STER SHINY COLORS   Hokago Climax Girls [Hiyori Konno (Kaho Komiya), Haruka Shiraishi (Chiyoko Sonoda), Mariko Nagai (Juri Saijo), Wakana Maruoka (Rinze Morino), Akiho Suzumoto (Natsuha Arisugawa)], Straylight [Yuki Tanaka (Asahi Serizawa), Eri Yukimura (Fuyuko Mayuzumi), Sayaka Kitahara (Mei Izumi)], noctchill [Yuu Wakui (Toru Asakura), Rio Tsuchiya (Madoka Higuchi), Saran Tajima (Koito Fukumaru), Miho Okasaki (Hinana Ichikawa)]
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IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS  Threat Sign [Sayuri Hara (Mio Honda), Makoto Koichi (Haru Yuuki), Teru Ikuta (Natalia)], Dimension-3 [Kotomi Aihara (Shiki Ichinose), Shiki Aoki (Asuka Ninomiya)], flamme martini [Maki Kawase (Tsukasa Kiryu), Sayaka Harada (Miyu Mifune), Satsumi Matsuda (Syoko Hoshi), Minori Suzuki (Hajime Fujiwara)], HappyHappyTwin [Hiromi Igarashi (Anzu Futaba), Rei Matsuzaki (Kirari Moroboshi)], miroir [Hina Tachibana (Nagi Hisakawa), Rika Nagae (Hayate Hisakawa)]
IDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE  Chrono-Lexica [Yuka Saito (Subaru Nagayoshi), Atsuki Nakamura (Roco Handa), Rika Abe (Mizuki Makabe)], Senkou☆HANABIDAN [Yuri Komagata (Sayoko Takayam), Nana Hamasaki (Noriko Fukuda), Yui Watanabe (Nao Yokoyama), Eri Ozeki (Minako Satake)], 4 Luxury [Arisa Kori (Kaori Sakuramori), Rie Suegara (Fuka Toyokawa), Emi Hirayama (Reika Kitakami), Minami Takahashi (Konomi Baba)]
IDOLM@STER SideM  FRAME [Kentaro Kumagai (Hideo Akuno), Kento Hama (Ryu Kimura), Takuya Masumoto (Seiji Shingen)], Café Parade [Sho Karino (Yukihiro Kamiya), Takuya Kodama (Makio Uzuki), Daiki Kobayashi (Saki Mizushima)], F-LAGS [Yuko Sanpei (Ryo Akizuki), Shunya Hiruma (Kazuki Tsukumo), Takehiro Urao (Daigo Kabuto)]
IDOLM@STER SHINY COLORS  Illumination Stars [Hitomi Sekine (Mano Sakuragi), Mayu Mineda (Meguru Hachimiya)], L’Antica [Karin Isobe (Kogane Tsukioka), Chisa Suginuma (Mamimi Tanaka), Anna Yamaki (Sakuya Shirase), Shio Watanabe (Yuika Mitsumine), Yuina Mizuki (Kiriko Yukoku)], ALSTROEMERIA [Honoka Kuroki (Amana Osaki), Ryoko Maekawa (Tenka Osaki), Noriko Shibasaki (Chiyuki Kuwayama)], SHHis [Azusa Shizuki (Nichika Nanakusa), Aya Yamane (Mikoto Aketa)]
SPECIAL GUEST  ZWEIGLANZ [Minori Chihara (Leon), Rie Takahashi (Shika)]
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noloveforned · 7 months
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no love for ned is on wlur from 8pm until midnight tonight for our typical friday night foray. if you've found yourself elsewhere, last week's show is up on mixcloud for forays more convenient to your schedule.
no love for ned on wlur – september 15th, 2023 from 8-10pm
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soundgrammar · 1 year
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dustedmagazine · 3 months
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Mary Halvorson — Cloudward (Nonesuch)
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Guitarist Mary Halvorson has played with a number of artists, but for her past three albums she has worked with a band dubbed Amaryllis: Halvorson, Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet). Over the course of their relatively brief tenure, they have cohered into a formidable ensemble, energetically collaborating with stalwart commitment to Halvorson’s compositions. There are eight of these on Cloudward, polystylistic vehicles for Amaryllis’ soloing.
Cloudward opens with “The Gate,” in which a brief theme in parallel voicings is supplanted by a series of solo turns, including incendiary ones from the brass. Brennan’s vibes continue the changes underneath, and the entire group reconvenes for a brief, smoldering coma. Halvorson plays a modal, looped intro to “The Tower,” which speeds up and then disappears. Next an undulating tune played by Brennan and underscored by Halvorson hovers diaphanously. After a time, terse brass interjections and a spider-web patterned bassline join. The texture is full yet never overly thickened. A vibes solo adds filigrees to the mix, soon augmented by Halvorson, moving from rhythm guitar to bending notes and unleashing terse imitations of the brass interjections. The brass players themselves begin to animate the proceedings with greater intensity in their repeated lines and with bends of their own. Suddenly, this ceases, the opening music returns, accompanied by oscillating brass duos. The tune closes in an echo of the intro with slow repeated notes in the guitar. A standout on the recording.
“Incarnadine” moves Amaryllis closer to free playing, with swooping guitar, trilling brass, pedaled vibraphone playing shimmering arpeggios, off-kilter drums, and angular arco bass. It is the rhythm section that takes its spotlight moment here, and the difference in playing approach is pleasantly surprising. Fujiwara also plays a rollicking intro to “Tailhead.” His polyrhythmic groove sets up two-against three lines and a syncopated tune in the brass. Garchik unleashes one of his best solos, eventually dueting with Halvorson while Brennan plays the original tune underneath. The intricacy of the structure of Halvorson’s music is particularly emphasized on “Tailhead.”
Halvorson is a generous collaborator, and most of the performances on Cloudward feel like a collaborative effort rather than a showcase for the leader. But on “Desiderata,” she lets it rip, playing a ranging, eventually looping, guitar solo that begins with a clean tone and secundal oscillations but climaxes with distortion and raucous glissandos. From free jazz to contemporary modern ensemble music, Halvorson has made thoughtful arrangements for Amaryllis. It’s great to hear her rock out too, playing with an abandon that has been simmering all along.
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nonesuchrecords · 3 months
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Guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson's new album, Cloudward, is out now! You can get it and hear it here.
Halvorson performs eight new compositions with her improvisatory sextet Amaryllis: Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet). Laurie Anderson is featured on one track.
The Guardian, naming Cloudward its Jazz Album of the Month, says: "Halvorson’s fusions of written and spontaneous music reach an entrancing new seamlessness and seductive warmth with this terrific set. Superb." PopMatters calls it "a shimmering, deeply satisfying example of a jazz sextet firing on all cylinders. Prepare to be astonished." Bandcamp says: "It’s only January, but it’s hard not to see this as one of the great achievements of 2024."
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burlveneer-music · 2 years
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Mary Halvorson - Amaryllis - one of two new albums; on this one she leads a sextet (plus string quartet on half the tracks)
Amaryllis is a six-song suite performed by a newly formed sextet of master improvisers, including Halvorson, Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet). The Mivos string quartet joins for three of the songs, making this the largest ensemble for which Halvorson has written to date. The suite showcases Halvorson’s many musical influences from jazz, experimental, new music, and beyond.
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