Music

Kahil El’Zabar & David Murray – Spirit Groove: Golden Sea Duo in Shenzhen

Over the past few decades what was farmland then a hodgepodge of factories and warehouses has turned into Overseas Chinese Town, one of the most modern and scenic not to mention affluent parts of the megacity of Shenzhen. Between theme parks like the Splendid China Folk Village, Window of the World and Happy Valley and the water-themed retail complex...

Ingrid Laubrock – Purposing The Air

Whether the enforced solitude of the coronavirus pandemic compelled a desire for oral communication, encouraged artists sans collaborators to sit down with the written word or simply gave everybody plenty of time in which to try out new stuff, coming out of the back end there has been a profusion of vocal or spoken word jazz from William Parker...

drank (Ingrid Schmoliner & Alexander Kranabetter) – Breath in Definition

On 'Min', the second track from Ingrid Schmoliner and Alexander Kranabetter's debut album as drank, an arpeggiated piano loop takes us on a sinuous and disorientating rollercoaster ride amid the screws and sputtering, the drills and hammering of Schmoliner's prepared piano while Kranabetter's trumpet trills and splutters and whistles in spurts over the top. Those piano preparations add a...

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