Tag: Adam O'Farrill

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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...

Already this year Mary Halvorson has starred alongside Sylvie Courvoisier for the spellbinding and spine tingling Bone Bells where she trifled whimsically with flamenco strums and dove headlong into grungy riffs round and about her familiar circuitous matter while Courvoisier on her piano rose steeply or dashed off runaway keys. Widely experimental, meditative and even moving amid all of...

David Lynch, the transcendental meditator and itinerant Eagle Scout who believes that a daily routine allows the mind to travel unfettered, has at pivotal moments of his artistic career been inspired by the limpid light or electric spark of visions, whether the manicured lawns and picket fences which sprung up one day as he listened to the Bobby Vinton...