Jazz Articles about Martín Escalante

About Martín Escalante

Album Review

Tatsuya Yoshida / Martín Escalante: The Sound of Raspberry

Read "The Sound of Raspberry" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
September 4, 2025

This LP may be the revelation of 2025--or a sonic ordeal, depending on your tolerance for noise and your grasp of history. Japanese drummer Tatsuya Yoshida and Mexican saxophonist Martín Escalante met at the perfect moment in December 2023 to record 14 tracks at Tokyo's Bar Aja. The result, The Sound of Raspberry, is the love child of punk rock and free jazz, fed through a grinder and pulverizer until nothing but raw nerve remains. The sound is head-spinning, in ...

Album Review

MARANATA: Ugly Euphoria

Read "Ugly Euphoria" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 5, 2025

There is the admonition 'run, don't walk' about Ugly Euphoria by the Norwegian noise duo Maranata. With more than a dozen releases to their name, the electronics of Jon Wesseltoft and Dag Stiberg's saxophones create a total onslaught of sound. The encouragement to run instead of walking is not to avoid this recording but to get a head start because the sound is ultimately gaining on you. Maranata, while primarily a duo, has invited guests to join their ...