Jazz Articles about Matthew Mottel

Talibam!: End Game of the Anthropocene

by Glenn Astarita
January 8, 2018

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 ...