Kevin Press
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We can thank John Zorn for connecting Eyal Maoz and Eugene Chadbourne, both of whom he’s worked with in the past. The two have produced a fascinating album for the Infrequent Seams label called The Coincidence Masters. Chadbourne and I have been trading emails, and he’s been sending along recordings which I’ll feature on episode…
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Released: 2022 Label: 577 Records Genre: Jazz In broad strokes, their music sits somewhere between late fifties Sun Ra Arkestra and Bebe and Louis Barron. Powered forward by a sculptural approach to drumming akin to Valentina Magaletti or Will Guthrie. On ‘Entrechócanse’ the electronics play out cosmic dialling tones which the trumpet’s frantic runs seem to mimic,…
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Released: 2022 Label: Zoharum Genre: Contemporary Replacing the glitching frenzy of bubbling, frothy digital frenzy that is Gintas K’s trademark is a much sparser, more minimal approach to composition, with single notes that sound like ersatz strings being plucked, atop quivering drones and low-rumbling organ sounds that fliker erratically like gas lights and resonating out into a…
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Released: 2024 Label: Whited Sepulchre Records Genre: Jazz The scholar Bernice Johnson Reagon once said that music was like “running sound through the body.” Amen puts us in touch with our bodies and it connectedly moves the soul. Guidry travels through several genres here, yet cradles them within one vision, led by the bassoon’s peculiar pathos. On its mission…
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