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Robin Holcomb And Peggy Lee Join Forces On 'Reno,' Out September 12, 2025
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Robin Holcomb and Peggy Lee have been making music together for two decades, including The Point of It All (Songlines, 2010), a collaboration between Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz, and Vancouver jazz quartet Talking Pictures. Now Robin and Peggy have made a duo recording, featuring eight enigmatic Holcomb songs and eight of her instrumental pieces. The intimacy and improvisational interplay of the music-making are remarkable, as are the realism and beauty of the sound. This music is hard to pin down—it reaches ...
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Songlines' Gamelan Alligator Joy Releases Penumbra, Its First Album In Fifteen Years
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It's been 15 years since Vancouver’s new music / Javanese gamelan group released its last record, Hive. In the meantime, the ensemble took a new name. Traditionally, gamelans are named after the poetic honorific title bestowed on the large gong: Madu Sari translates as “the essence of honey.” But times change, and Alligator Joy was named after the rumored-to-be-gun-running freighter that brought this newly created, chamber-sized gamelan gadhon to Vancouver in 1990. The pieces on Penumbra were workshopped and premiered ...
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Mandingo Kora Master Ali Boulo Santo Cissoko Joins Trumpeter/Producer Volker Goetze On 'Sargal,' Out Now On Motema Music
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This June, New York-based trumpeter/producer Volker Goetze and Senegalese kora master/innovator Ali Boulo Santo Cissoko are set to release Sargal, a duo album with guest features by the world-renowned percussionist Mino Cinélu, famed for his work with Miles Davis and Weather Report. Recorded in jjny: Paris at the Goethe-Institut in 2021, Sargal documents the first explorations of a powerful new musical partnership. As a producer and trumpeter, Volker Goetze first came to world music fame in 2008 when his recordings ...
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Mikkel Ploug Reunites With His Original Trio To Release 'Hope' On Songlines Recordings
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Danish guitarist-composer Mikkel Ploug has had a long association with Songlines. The first of three recordings by the avant chamber-jazz trio Equilibrium, which he co-leads with Sissel Vera Pettersen and Joachim Badenhorst, appeared in 2009, and those were followed by two solo acoustic guitar titles, Alleviation (2017) and Day in the Sun (2022). Hope is the latest record by his very first jazz group, formed in 2006 with Danish bassist Jeppe Skovbakke and Irish drummer Sean Carpio. Recorded in studio ...
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Trumpeter/Producer Volker Goetze Teams With Accordion Legend Guy Klucevsek On Quartet Debut: Little Big Top
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Echoes of the ballroom, barroom, bordello, circus, concert hall, and jazz club intermingle with folk traditions from around the world to create a new hybrid form. Step right up! Step right in… to Little Big Top, the charming debut album from a new quartet led by accordion legend Guy Klucevsek (kloo-SEH-vik) with visionary trumpeter Volker Goetze. This fine compendium of engaging Klucevsek creations that were written over two decades is produced by Goetze, arranged by Klucevsek, and is filled with ...
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Multi-Instrumentalist And Vocalist Gina Sobel’s New Ep, 'Redbud,' Features Cadre Of Mid-Atlantic’s Top Young Multi-Genre Talents
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Sobel’s Performance on Flute, Bass Flute, Sax and Vocals Emphasizes Her Prowess as a Songwriter On August 30, Gina Sobel, the multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who has been lauded as a “kaleidoscope of musical talent, genres, and pure vibe,” released Redbud, her third release as a solo artist. Joining Gina on the six track EP are some of the Mid-Atlantic’s top young talents in the jazz, funk and hip-hop world. Redbud features Gina on flute, bass flute, sax and vocals. The ...
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Vocalist, Composer And Multi-instrumentalist Ona K Will Release 'Full, New, Luna' On January 22
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On January 22, Florida-based vocalist Ona K will release Full, New, Luna, the follow up to her 2022 album Mirage. In anticipation of the album’s release, she has already released three singles, with three more slated through the beginning of the new year. Full, New, Luna is an evolution of the same concepts that inspired Mirage. Truly a citizen of the world, Ona has lived in Barcelona, Spain, India, United Kingdom, and Austria, and has travelled extensively as well. It’s ...
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Sean Noonan Releases Pavees Dance 'Slide Gate': An Epic Journey Of Transformation And Conflict Through Experimental Jazz Rock
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Drummer and composer Sean Noonan, celebrated as a “Rhythmic Storyteller,” unveils his latest release, Slide Gate, marking the third installment from the jazz-rock ensemble Pavees Dance. On the new album, Noonan is once again joined by the original Can vocalist, Malcolm Mooney, the legendary bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma (Ornette Coleman's Prime Time), and the guitarist Ava Mendoza (Unnatural Ways). Comprised of ten tracks, Slide Gate embarks on a storytelling adventure which revolves around an android's quest to reclaim its humanity. Within ...
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