Album of the Week: Tara Clerkin Trio
“A record existing disconnected from the daily getyadowns, a holiday from life, optimism as resistance against mundanity, something extraordinary amongst the ordinary, positively grey.”
“A record existing disconnected from the daily getyadowns, a holiday from life, optimism as resistance against mundanity, something extraordinary amongst the ordinary, positively grey.”
Imagine one of those competition TV shows, but instead of dancing or singing with a costume, contestants have to make music with all manner of things that aren’t normally used to make music.
Ex:Re with 12 Ensemble is a collaboration between Elena Tonra, the lead singer of Daughter, classical composer Josephine Stephenson, and the 12-piece string orchestra, 12 Ensemble, setting Tora’s Ex:Re debut solo album to strings.
Maybe I’m getting old. Maybe I’m getting young.
1950s Country & Western by way of Zimbabwe, Kenya, and South Africa.
Pharoah Sanders. I don’t know about you, but when I hear his name, my mind immediately wanders all over the decades of mind-blowing, spirit-enriching music that Pharoah Sanders has given us. Its the stuff of legend. As Albert Ayler said, “Trane was the Father, Pharoah […]
: a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction
I dropped in on A Winged Victory for the Sullen for their self-titled debut album back in 2011 and keep a lookout for anything new. Like a hawk.
Nick Cave describes Carnage, his new album with soundtrack, Bad Seed, and Grinderman collaborator Warren Ellis thusly — a brutal but very beautiful record nested in a communal catastrophe.
I’m breaking with tradition, once again, covering a record that isn’t exactly new. Maybe it’s new to you, it was new to me when I first heard it, which is really more to the point of Album of the Week.
Guitarist Calvin Keys’ debut outing as leader, Shawn-Neeq, was originally released in 1971 on Black Jazz Records and we have Real Gone Music to thank for a brand spanking new vinyl reissue.
Where’s the outrage? Where’s the rage?
Sometimes straight ahead soul is all you need.
Some Fridays are easier than others.
Have you ever found yourself looking for something without knowing what it was?
There are people who take grief and pain and, through the creative process, transform it into something beautiful. Imagine what the world would look like if everyone embraced such a process.
If you love albums as journeys, or journeys as albums, composer and classically trained keyboardist Sarah Davachi’s Cantus, Descant was made for you.
I was reminded of how much I love Hannah Read as Lomelda’s Hannah when it appeared on a number of Best of 2020 lists. It should have been on mine.
Mike Hadreas as Perfume Genius makes confoundingly beautiful music.
What a year.
Watch out for the quiet ones.
Because of a Flower is the stunning sophomore release from sonic sorceress Ana Roxanne.
Strange days have found us. As such, my brain has been craving a tickle by the off kilter and The Silence delivered with the psychedelic trip that is Electric Meditations.
Sometimes words fail to capture my mood and this week was a perfect time for wordless reflection.
Adrianne Lenker holed up in a one-room cabin in the woods of Western Massachusetts last Spring, sat down in front of a tape deck or Walkman and recorded two albums-worth of songs and instrumentals. The results are some of the most simply beautiful bitter tears […]
SPAZA is a loose collective of musicians based in Johannesburg, South Africa — the idea of SPAZA is to jam around a concept rather than to coalesce into a fully-fledged band.
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