Library Recommendation
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Released: 2018 Label: Intakt Records Genre: Jazz It blasts off like a cannonball, followed by streams of flaring horns. Very soon, Mary Halvorson offers a guitar solo marked by twisting lines that take on the logic of curling barbed wire and eventually disintegrate. The orchestra then unleashes a series of fidgety notes—swarming around like hornets—that give…
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Released: 2018 Label: Carrier Records Genre: Contemporary There is nothing immediately obvious about this subtly beautiful recording; the details are so fine, they’re almost microscopic. Exclaim!
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Released: 2018 Label: Rottenman Editions Genre: Contemporary This is noise composition at its finest. Dziewanski maintains a gentle touch throughout the album, and yet this piece is remarkably dense. The Moderns
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Released: 2018 Label: World Galaxy Records Genre: Jazz Behind Tim Conley’s (a.k.a. MAST) leadership, Thelonious Sphere Monk offers up aggressively modern interpretations of Monk’s music. Major works like “Epistrophy,” “‘Round Midnight” and “Straight No Chaser” are here. So too are compositions you may be less familiar with. All About Jazz
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Released: 2018 Label: Room40 Genre: Contemporary I hear voices, strings and synths, at least. The sum of all these parts is dense and surprisingly emotional. Skeen has struck a chord that – if you give in to it – will transport you. The Moderns
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Released: 2018 Label: King Deluxe Genre: Jazz The Netherlands sampler extraordinaire has produced a killer electronic jazz album. In the process, he has transformed his source material. Among the album’s many highlights, “Cage Flight” is entirely made up of John Cage samples. Don’t come looking for a mashup of 20th century minimalism though — Lucinate turns…
The Moderns 