Results for "Pyroclastic Records"

The Last Quiet Place

By Ingrid Laubrock

Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Anticipation; Grammy Season; The Last Quiet Place; Delusions; Afterglow; Chant II.

The Rite of Spring: Spectre d’un songe

Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Le Sacre du Printemps, Pt.1; Le Sacre du Printemps, Pt.2; Spectre d’un songe.

Nighttime Creatures

By Angelica Sanchez

Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Nighttime Creatures; C.B. the Time Traveler; Cloud House; Astral Light of Alarid; Lady of the Lavender Mist; Land Here; Ringleader; Big Weirdo; Wrong Door for Rocket Fuel; Tristeza; Run.

Karl Ackermann's Best Creative Music Of 2023

by Karl Ackermann
December 26, 2023

2023 was an exceptional year for pushing envelopes. The music took leaps backward and forwards in time, espousing social consciousness while embracing fundamentals laid down by the likes of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. What distinguishes this year from the pre-pandemic era is the palpable feeling that artists vented in the form of fresh enthusiasm that ...

Jerome Wilson's Best Jazz Albums Of 2023

by Jerome Wilson
December 22, 2023

There was a lot of exceptional new music released during 2023 and these were my favorite albums of the year. Some of them bent the music into fascinating new shapes and some made fresh and compelling statements within the jazz tradition. Jaimie Branch Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ...

Nighttime Creatures

December 14, 2023

Album: Nighttime Creatures
By Angelica Sanchez
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 6:14

The Angelica Sanchez Nonet: Nighttime Creatures

by Angelo Leonardi
November 6, 2023

Pubblicato dalla Pyroclastic Records, Nighttime Creatures è il magistrale debutto del nonet della pianista Angelica Sanchez, organico che riunisce alcuni protagonisti della scene musicali di New York, Los Angeles e San Francisco: i sassofonisti Chris Speed e Michael Attias, il clarinettista Ben Goldberg, il cornettista Kenny Warren, il trombettista Thomas Heberer, il chitarrista Omar Tamez, il ...

October 2023: An Improvised Paradise

by Pat Youngspiel
October 11, 2023

The Angelica Sanchez Nonet Nighttime Creatures Pyroclastic Records 2023 One rarely gets to hear the contra-alto clarinet--an instrument mainly developed in the 20th century with a range extending downwards to the lower E-flat (concert G-flat), sometimes even a D or a C. On the introductory title cut of Nighttime Creatures, however, ...

Yelena Eckemoff And Cory Smythe: Imagination Unbound

by Doug Collette
September 4, 2023

Yelena Eckemoff and Cory Smythe have configured mirror images in music that reflect global mindsets of race, gender and class in the wake of COVID lockdowns and in the midst of climate change (among other controversies). The former postulates an insular existence populated only by a single individual and a sole figure with whom he finds ...

Mark Dresser: Tines of Change

by Jeff Schwartz
August 3, 2023

Since his arrival as a member of Anthony Braxton's mid-1980s quartet, Mark Dresser has been expanding the sonic palette of the upright bass. Like Barre Phillips, Barry Guy, and Joëlle Léandre before him, Dresser drew from both the classical avant-garde of players such as Bertram Turetzky and Fernando Grillo and the more intuitive improvisational approaches of ...