1)
Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile (live set: here)
The second installment of Matana’s documentation of her personal ancestry.
I have nothing to add to the clip above. Seriously, take the time.
2)
Fire! Orchestra – Exit (live set: here)
Fire! – (without noticing) – (Tonight More. Much More)
The clips above speak for themselves…especially the first.
3)
Anthony Braxton – Echo Echo Mirror House
Composition No. 347 + Recorded @ Musique Actuelle Festival 2011
“The “Echo Echo Mirror House” music is a trans-temporal music state that connects the past, present, and future as one thought component” – Anthony Braxton (liner notes)
Septet w/iPods…Braxton pushing the envelope…out…further…out…
4)
Ballister – Mi Casa Es En Fuego (live set: here and here)
Dave Rempis, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Paal Nilssen-Love
Three Masters…Free Jazz…Monstrous.
5)
Kaze – Tornado (Wao)
Pianist Satoko Fujii lead me here and is in especially prime form…however the dual trumpet attack of Christian Pruvost & Natsuki Tamura drives this ensemble over the edge.
6)
The Resonance Ensemble – Head Above Water (live set: here)
Magnus Broo, Per-Ake Holmlander, Steve Swell, Tim Daisy, Michael Zerang, Dave Rempis, Mikokaj Traska, Ken Vandermark, Waclaw Zimpel, Devin Hoff, Mark Tokar.
No small feat assembling the above musicians to lay down these Vandermark compositions.
Clip above is taken a few days before the second disc in this set was recorded.
7)
Keefe Jackson’s Likely So – A Round Goal
Mars Williams, Waclaw Zimpel, Keefe Jackson, Marc Stucki, Dave Rempis, Peter Schmid, Thomas Mejer.
Mars Williams is in especially inspired form!
Fans of World Saxophone Quartet & Rova Saxophone Quartet should adore…this is out of this world!
8)
DKV+ Gustafsson, Nilssen-Love, Pupillo – SCHL8HOF
Double Trio – Drake/Kessler/Vandermark & Nilssen-Love/Pupillo/Gustafsson
These folks know how to play together…they also know how to stand their ground.
Powerful, heavy, and heady stuff here.
9)
Tim Berne’s Snake Oil – Shadow Man (Cornered, OC/DC)
Tim Berne, Oscar Noriega, Matt Mitchell, Ches Smith
Berne’s 2nd Snakeoil outing. Very…Very Good!
10)
Ivo Perelman, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Gerald Cleaver – Serendipity (Perelman/Shipp)
Single 40+ minute improvised meeting of the minds here…very imaginative, playful stuff.
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