Tag: Bill Callahan

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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...

Black and withered or beating steadily at the influx of life, Bill Callahan and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, two legendary hearts in their own right, cover the Lou Reed album closer in the company of Cretan lute player George Xylouris. Wynton Marsalis and a septet from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra blow their trumpets over the state of democracy,...

From the cured meats and pasta salads of HAIM stuck behind the deli counter, to the new drip of Medhane and lazy days of John Cale, this week's selection of tracks caters to all tastes and temperaments. The Smashing Pumpkins, Mary Lattimore, REASON, Bastien Keb, and Touché Amoré roll out their new and upcoming albums, Purity Ring take on...