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Mauro Refosco

Mauro Refosco is a professional percussionist and noisemaker who performs and records with artists such as David Byrne, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Thom Yorke’s Atoms for Peace.  After beginning his touring career in 1994 as Byrne’s percussionist, he returned to NYC and joined cult creative ensemble The Lounge Lizards, playing experimental punk jazz and more with bandleader John Lurie.  In between stints with Byrne and several other in demand projects he formed his band, Forro in the Dark, which has recorded four full-length albums and performed at major domestic and international festivals. 

Asterisms

By Sean Ono Lennon

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2024
Track listing: Starwater; Thinking of M; Acidalia; Asterisms; Heliopause.

Sean Ono Lennon: Asterisms

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 9, 2024

Among the eagerly-awaited new releases is Sean Ono Lennon's Asterisms (Tzadik Records, 2024). When I first saw the project at The Stone in early October 2022 I was immediately struck by the enormous potential of the band and their music. Asterisms hovers over many genres and defies them all as its own thing, in ...

Fire Illuminations

By Wadada Leo Smith

Label: Kabell Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Ntozake; Muhammed Ali's Spiritual Horizon; Fire Illuminations Inside Light Particles; Tony Williams; Muhammed Ali and George Foreman's Rumble in Zaire Africa.

Dance of the Mystic Bliss

By Michael Blake

Label: P&M Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Merle the Pearl; Le Coeur du Jardin (The Heart of the Garden); Little Demons; Love Finally Arrives; Topanga Burns; Sagra; Prune Pluck Pangloss; The Meadows; Weeds; Cleopatra.

Michael Blake: Dance of the Mystic Bliss

by Jerome Wilson
June 18, 2023

This is saxophonist Michael Blake's new group, Chroma Nova, which contains guitar, violin, cello, bass and two Brazilian percussionists. They play a set of compositions, inspired by Blake's late mother, dancer Merle Blake, which rely on fluid rhythms and textures taken in many different directions. Blake is often the main solo voice here but ...

Wadada Leo Smith: Fire Illuminations

by Mike Jurkovic
March 31, 2023

Eighty-one year old trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith comes out flaring like Bitches Brew era Miles Davis, as Fire Illuminations jumps the funk rock from the break of the muscular conflagration “Ntozake." And the grunge jazz clips along as guitarists Nels Cline, Brandon Ross, and Lamar Smith vie, bite, sting, and quarrel over an insistent bass drum ...

Michael Blake: Afro Blake

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 23, 2023

Africa seems to have been a special source of inspiration for Michael Blake, as compositions like “Addis Abeba" (Elevated), “Malagasy" (Combobulate), “Mauritania" (Buzz), “Road to Lusaka" (In the Grand Scheme of Things), “Africa Used to Be Home" (More Like Us) or “Surfing Sahara" (Elevated ) attest. They are all characterized by memorable themes and an instantly ...

Wadada Leo Smith: Fire Illuminations

by Dan McClenaghan
March 12, 2023

Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith fronts lots of different bands and puts out lots of albums. After a busy period when he released five boxed sets, totaling 27 CDs, here he debuts his new all-star ensemble Orange Wave Electric, with the download-only offering, Fire Illuminations. As the band name implies, the sound is electric, featuring three electric ...

A Conversation with Vocalist Abigail Rockwell

by Lorens Chuno
February 3, 2019

Join me in a conversation with Abigail Rockwell, a talented vocalist whose singing effortlessly tells a unique intimate story to each listener. Her new album, Autumn Noir, is a collection of 12 songs with arrangements that are meticulously executed to preserve the power and intimacy of Abigail's interpretation. Autumn Noir features Abigail Rockwell on vocals, Quinn ...