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by Martin Longley
Improviser In Residence becomes Improvisers In Residence, for the 50th anniversary of the Moers Festival in Germany. Running since 2008, this has been a year-long in-house situation for invited artists, and usually offered to a single being. In 2021, we have the innovation of a twosome, in Matt Mottel (keyboards) and Kevin Shea (drums), who also happen to be the long-running band formation called Talibam!, normally (or abnormally normally) resident in New York City. The avenues over there were becoming ...
read moreTalibam!: End Game of the Anthropocene
by Glenn Astarita
New York-based Talibam! returns to ESP-Disk' with an interesting take on environmental matters by declaring, It is the soundtrack to 2048's despotic nationalism and crumbling international infrastructure, underscoring an eco-mercantilistic tragedy and the desperate plundering of the last pristine landscape on Earth. This inevitable destruction of Antarctica's purity marks the global-environmental endgame of the Anthropocene." On that note, the musicians seem to be concerned about the global exploitation of natural resources, and while I'm not privy to what's going on ...
read moreTalibam!: Boogie in the Breeze Blocks
by Raul d'Gama Rose
At first, Talibam!'s Boogie in the Breeze Blocks appears to be regurgitated Doors-meets-Frank Zappa-meets-Ornette Coleman-meets razor-sharp punk. But then, why waste time trying to do what many would, which is put anything new in a category?
This is wildly new music, fresh in its approach to the collision of melody, harmony and rhythm that makes for quite a soup for the songs to swim in. The clear influence of Jim Morrison gives the lyrics edgy and intoxicating raucousness. ...
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