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Joel Harrison: Mother Stump
by Troy Collins
Guitarist and composer Joel Harrison is well-known for creative cross-cultural collaborations and unique arrangements of works by influential musicians like George Harrison and Paul Motian. A magnanimous bandleader, Harrison rarely dominates his own recording projects, typically soloing with lyrical economy in lieu of pyrotechnic excess. Mother Stump focuses on this underplayed aspect of Harrison's abilities, spotlighting ...
Sonar: Static Motion
by John Kelman
At a time when more recordings are released than ever before, it's rare to find a group that not just changes the way music is made, but the way it's defined. That description could easily fit Swiss pianist Nik Bartsch and his longstanding group Ronin, its Ritual Groove Music jettisoning overt virtuosity and conventional form for ...
Thumbscrew: Thumbscrew
by Troy Collins
Thumbscrew is the self-titled debut of a two-year-old trio featuring guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Tomas Fujiwara. As leading members of the next generation, Halvorson and Fujiwara have honed their finely-tuned rapport in numerous ensembles over the years, including cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum's flagship sextet, where they first met Formanek, who subbed for ...
Miriodor: Cobra Fakir
by Glenn Astarita
Hailing from Canada, Miriodor's 35-year existence has yielded a fruitful discography, as the band is nestled within a Rock in Opposition (R.I.O) stylization that transcends progressive rock into various spatial aspects and genres. The musicians share this categorization, steeped in experimentalism with European ensembles, Present and Univers Zero, for example. Now a trio, the artists' current ...
Mary Halvorson - Michael Formanek - Tomas Fujiwara: Thumbscrew
by Glenn Astarita
Kindred musical spirits unite on this composers' cooperative, featuring three musicians who have been forerunners and antagonists of new-fangled directions in the avant-garde jazz spectrum, other than ripping into customary modern jazz fare with a vengeance. The artists' divergent discographies offer a worldly testament to these aspects, besides their work as first-call session aces. With Michael ...
Zevious: Passing Through The Wall
by Glenn Astarita
Here's a group that started out as a no-frills jazz guitar trio. They've become louder and more aggressive, incorporating Machiavellian- like chutzpah, tinted with a punkish 'tude, spanning hardcore jazz- fusion and vintage progressive rock mechanisms. With an in-your-face modus operandi, the band intimates a high metabolism rate through a punishing impetus. The musicians' literally bust ...
Pixel: We Are Small Pixels
by Glenn Astarita
Hailing from Norway, Pixel's debut release Reminder (Cuneiform, 2012) was a shot of adrenaline for many aficionados and critics with its sprightly and irrefutably seamless alliance between Indie Rock and progressive jazz. Led by bassist Ellen Andrea Wang and her alluring pop-like vocal delivery, there are few operating entities that sport a signature sound, merging technically ...
History of the Visitation
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2013
Track listing:
1. The Pilman Radiant: I Visitation; II The Divine Vessel; III Wriggling Magnet; IV Mosquito Mange; V Divine Vessel's Reprise - 26:15; 2. Complex #7 - 4:47;
3. Tremors from the Future - 11:15.
September
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: 20th Soterius Lakshmi; 9th Wayne Phases; 25th Somber Blanket; 22nd Love
Is Its Own Eternity; 18th Lemons; 17th Loop Piece; 24th Interval Dig;
16th Mystic Klang; 12th Coping Song.
Sky Bleached
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2013
Track listing:
01. "White Nights"; 02. Barocco; 03. Psychic Journey; 04. Mayan Sun; 05. White Magic; 06. Soft
Rain on a Dead Sea; 07. Time Stalkers; 08. Translucent Spheres; 09. Dreamspell;
10. Sky Bleached.
