Music

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...

For more than three decades the saxophonist and bass clarinetist Andrew D'Angelo has been testing the boundaries or teasing the horizons of contemporary music. After moving to Boston he joined the big bands Orange Then Blue and the Either/Orchestra some of whose members proved lasting collaborators as D'Angelo continued to perform regularly alongside Cuong Vu, Matt Wilson and Jamie...

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's new live album Ghosts of American Psychonauts was recorded at The Pico Union Project in Los Angeles over Valentine's Day weekend of 2025 - just a few weeks after the release of his album The Purple Bird and in the immediate wake of the devastating wildfires which had raged throughout Southern California for much of January....