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String Planes

Read "String Planes" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Collin Sherman takes the 'A' train to his day job in Manhattan. Billy Strayhorn, the writer of the tune “Take the 'A' Train" that was made famous by the Duke Ellington Orchestra, must be smiling. Do the seeds of Sherman's compositions germinate during these forty-five-minute rides? Possibly, though his music has no resemblance to Ellington's or ...

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Inhabiting the Other

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Mutant Insects; Of Revolving Properties; El Camino De Las Espinas; Clangorous Stomp; Pensive Explorations; The Huntress; Station Drift; Return to the Past; First Stages of Upheaval; Vigilia Inesperada.

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Organism Made Luminous

Label: Ex-tol Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: Failed Deotological Promise; Across Three Fields; Hegemonic Virtues; Dialectic Rejected; Says Flowers; Late Edition; Glassine and Glycerin; Space Mission of the Immortals; Signal Isolation.

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Suitable Benchmarks of Reform

Label: Ex-tol Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: Phalanx Strictures; Rival Machinations; Worthless Objects and Photographs Thereof; Rumination Suite, Mvt. I: Meditation on Resentment; Rumination Suite, Mvt. II: Faults and Missteps; Rumination Suite, Mvt. III: Things Turn Around; Rumination Suite, Mvt. IV: Foundations of Serenity.

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Collin Sherman: Organism Made Luminous

Read "Organism Made Luminous" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The Covid pandemic slowed artistic progress for many musicians. Opportunities to collaborate became scarce; live music in front of an audience blinked out. However, the enterprising players out there found a way. File sharing and solo projects blossomed, and these—along with the relative affordability of home studio set ups—had an invigorating effect on musical creativity. If ...

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Article: Album Review

Collin Sherman: Suitable Benchmarks of Reform

Read "Suitable Benchmarks of Reform" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Multi-reedist Colin Sherman's thirteenth album, Suitable Benchmarks Of Reform, was made from the same template from which his previous twelve releases came into being—recording alone in his New York City apartment, recording the individual parts then layering each onto the next to make an ensemble sound. This, in the time of the arrival of the Covid ...

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Arc of a Slow Decline

Label: Extol Recordings
Released: 2020
Track listing: Prey Upon the Flock; And Publius Recoils; Sycophant Parade; Compulsory Service; Night Port; Federal Occupation; Space Between Carriers; Transit Paths; Fury Spring; Calculus of Utility; Caesium Sculptures; Sequestration Blues; Polar Ticks.

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Collin Sherman: Arc of a Slow Decline

Read "Arc of a Slow Decline" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Music is typically a collaborative affair. A given number of players comes together and each takes a part in the shaping of a particular sound. Teamwork is the word. But sometimes a musician just has to go it alone and--in this technological age that allows such things--the recording then collaging and layering of sounds creates an ...

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Liberties and Delights

Label: Extol Recordings
Released: 2019
Track listing: Knowledge Base for Sievehead; Crux No. 1; Breezy (bonus track); Outfatuation; Sunken Blue; Crux No. 2

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Fungible Deities

Label: Extol Recordings
Released: 2018
Track listing: Fungible Deities; Intuition Lies; Pensive/Turmoil/Resolve; Now Juxtapose Decency; Unwillingly Defined by the Era; Greasy Knob; A Light in Heathens' Corner; Fray and Mend


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