Tag: Andrew Broder

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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...

Barrelling out of the gates on 'The World Is Dog' with the snapping bark of a canine but a gruffer palate, the Armand Hammer rapper Elucid sets forth his most sonically diverse record to date, where hyperventilating sirens, ping-ponging kicks and claves plus the odd reggae undercurrent are provided by producers like Jon Nellen, August Fanon, Child Actor, the...