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Album

Blue and Sun-lights

Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Earth O; Triangular Globe; mosquito mind; [Moth] Territory - Full Length Mirror; Seraph; beaming_becoming chrystal; Spine; Glass Spell; doo wap BREAK BREAK; Earth OO.

Article: Album Review

Glass Triangle: Blue and Sun-lights

Read "Blue and Sun-lights" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
September 8, 2023

The transatlantic trio of electric harpist Zeena Parkins, saxophonist Mette Rasmussen and drummer Ryan Sawyer, working under the moniker Glass Triangle, reunites for Blue And Sun-Lights. It is the second release as a group following an eponymous debut recorded in 2019. The band brings together a unique set of experiences--downtown sass from Parkins, European free jazz ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

James Brandon Lewis, Clean Feed, and Tomasz Stanko

by Maurice Hogue
March 20, 2023

This episode is packed with interesting new releases, starting with James Brandon Lewis and a new trio and a new label. You'll get a taste of several new albums from the latest batch from Clean Feed Records, as well as Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra, Aussies Alister Spence at the piano with drummer Tony Buck (The ...

Article: Album Review

Susan Alcorn, Patrick Holmes and Ryan Sawyer: From Union Pool

Read "From Union Pool" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
March 1, 2023

The inimitable pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn seemingly knows no bounds when it comes to the range of textures, tones and timbres she can coax out of her instrument. She is also a consummate improvisational partner, whether working in free or composed contexts. And she has forged a terrific partnership with Relative Pitch Records, which has ...

Album

Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes

By Nate Wooley

Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: (…..); I Am the Sea that Sings of Dust; (…….); A Catastrophic Legend; (……..); Returning to Drown Myself, Finally; (……………).

Article: Album Review

Columbia Icefield: Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes

Read "Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
September 11, 2022

Trumpeter Nate Wooley can create impressive large-scale compositions. His Seven Storey Mountain VI, (Pyroclastic, 2021) is a massive work, dealing with the rights of women, that used fourteen musicians and singers. His group, Columbia Icefield, achieves similar results with just four members, Wooley himself on trumpet and amplifier, Mary Halvorson on electric guitar, Susan Alcorn on ...

Song of the Day

Returning to Drown Myself, Finally

August 20, 2022

Album: Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes
By Nate Wooley
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 10:37

Article: Album Review

Columbia Icefield: Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes

Read "Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
August 19, 2022

Nate Wooley refuses to make trivial music. Whether the endlessly creative trumpeter and composer is rethinking the relationship between artistic production and community, as on Mutual Aid Music (Pleasure of the Text, 2021), or pursuing ways to re-envision music's spiritual potential, seen most recently on 2020's Seven Storey Mountain VI (Pyroclastic Records), he always provides his ...

Article: In Pictures

Festival Music Unlimited 35 In Wels, Austria

by Ziga Koritnik
February 8, 2022

A collection of photos from Music Unlimited 35 Festival in Wels, Austria from November 5, 2021 to November 7, 2021 featuring Tumido Orchestra, (Susanna Gartmayer, Irene Kepl, Noid, Manu Mayr, Alexander Kranabetter, Thomas Berghammer, Lukas König, Mario Stadler, Bernhard Breuer, Gigi Gratt), Gabbro 4, (Hanne de Backer, Agnes Hvizdalek, Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, Raphael Malfliet), Irreversible Entanglements, ...