Music

From the first spectral shudder of the sub-bass Oblique by Ghost Dubs summons a stream of comparisons from Drexciyan submersibles to the dub minimalism of Basic Channel. On the album opener 'Low Times' there is also some Kraftwerk and their 'Hall of Mirrors' or 'Showroom Dummies' and even a bit of gamelan percussion mixed up in the DNA. Most...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYgRt3SzpbE The pianist Kris Davis and her trio with Robert Hurst on the double bass and Johnathan Blake on the drums has put in the hours since the release of their acclaimed debut Run the Gauntlet, which means in airports and hotel lobbies and all those other spaces seemingly designed to distress and disorientate as well as up on stage...

Like a trickster or shapeshifter the bassist Mali Obomsawin slips easily between popular and jazzier forms. As a composer she can be fierce and incantatory, erecting songs that are defiant and accusatory while leaving the listener in their thrall. A citizen of Odanak First Nation, an Abenaki community located near the mouth of the Saint-François River in Quebec, on Sweet Tooth her debut as a bandleader she blended traditional music and indigenous mythology with contemporary chants and squalls of free improvisation...