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Spinifex: Beats The Plague

Read "Beats The Plague" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Finally, a band of brothers retaliates against the coronavirus. The scientists and the anti-vax antipodes have had their day. Time for some partisan guerrilla action. Okay, maybe just a pipe dream, but these nine tracks by the Amsterdam based Spinifex deliver a much needed counterattack to this diabolical infective agent. Recorded in June of 2021, Beats The Plague is the band's seventh release. It follows Soufifex (TryTone, 2019) where the band looked East for inspiration from Sufi music. ...

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Luis Vicente Trio: Chanting In The Name Of

Read "Chanting In The Name Of" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


All-world jazz man, world music maker and fierce improvisational drummer Hamid Drake penned venerating liners for this album led by the always in demand Portuguese trumpeter Luis Vicente and his trio. And Drake's correlations with estimable Sufi mystic and teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan's view that music is life, and a means of discovery that parallels the harmony of the entire universe among relationships with nature and other pleasurable perceptions is spot on. Hence, the trio attains a symbiosis, rooted in ...

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Ritual Habitual: Pagan Chant

Read "Pagan Chant" reviewed by Mark Corroto


All great music, at least in the jazz and improvisation world, shares a resonance of back to the future. Call it a placeholder, or flag planted so listeners can find their way, not only back, but forward. The trio Ritual Habitual plants that flag with Pagan Chant as an invitation to accompany them on a journey into a future's past. Theirs is a straightforward trio (reeds/bass/drums) with the intention to carry forward the past on their self constructed rocket ship. ...

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Ikizukuri + Susana Santos Silva: Suicide Underground Orchid

Read "Suicide Underground Orchid" reviewed by John Sharpe


For its second album, the power trio Ikizukuri, comprising German saxophonist Julius Gabriel, Portuguese electric bassist Gonçalo Almeida and drummer Gustavo Costa, joins forces with trumpeter Susana Santos Silva for a brash 40-minute thrash blending free jazz, noise, metal and electronics. While the band's name refers to a gruesome strand of Japanese cuisine which entails seafood so fresh it is still alive, the shock and vitality are happily the only ingredients which inform the music. The album ...


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