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JP Carter

Emad Armoush's Rayhan: Distilled Extractions

by Mark Corroto
January 26, 2025

Jazz and creative music have always resisted assimilation. By that, I mean jazz draws upon--or perhaps more accurately, appropriates--sounds, traditions and styles to create something entirely new. This has been true since New Orleans musicians blended Caribbean, French, African and Sicilian influences while performing on traditional marching band instruments. Over the century-plus since its inception, improvising ...

Businessless

By Cole Schmidt

Label: Drip Audio
Released: 2024
Track listing: Useless Genius 1; When The Buzzards Leave The Bones; Useless Genius 2; Doctor Dawn; Useless Genius 3; CJ Blues.

Distilled Extractions

By Emad Armoush

Label: Afterday
Released: 2024
Track listing: El Helwa Di; Amenti; Lahza; Efragohome; Marriage Party; Ya Hilu; Trance; Zourouni.

Sick Boss: Businessless

by Chris May
February 10, 2024

This bracing sophomore album from Vancouver's improvising sextet Sick Boss resonates with the beyond-genre territory of the late Jaimie Branch's Fly Or Die quartet. At a surface level there is the shared use of trumpet and cello, but deeper than that, Businessless embraces the riot grrrl abandon so beloved of Branch. Echoes of Fly Or Die ...

Night's Quietest Hour

By Gordon Grdina

Label: Attaboygirl Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Longa Nahawand; Sala Min Shaaraha A​-​Thahab (Gold Streamed Down From Her Hair); Dulab Bayati; Lamma Bada Yatathanna (When She Begins To Sway); Hawj Erreeh (Violent Wind).