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Jlin – Akoma

Albums
Since her last solo album Black Origami - which musically still feels of the present moment, but factually came out in something of a time that land forgot, way back when in the spring of 2017 - the Indiana composer Jlin produced scores for new dances by the choreographers Wayne McGregor and Kyle Abraham, wrote Perspective for the Chicago-based...

Tracks of the Week 01.04.23

Tracks of the Week
Singing through a ring modulator offset by the distortions and amplifications of the surrounding band, which drew upon an unconventional background in aspects of Dixieland jazz, Indian classical ragas, John Cage, and Karlheinz Stockhausen while earning equal renown for the left-wing political content of their music, as the frontwoman of The United States of America the vocalist Dorothy Moskowitz...

Tracks of the Week 25.03.23

Tracks of the Week
Partially inspired by dialogue from Edward O. Bland's seminal 1959 documentary The Cry of Jazz, which intersperses performances by Sun Ra and a series of conversations on the nature of jazz by a group of intellectuals in a club with scenes of life from black neighbourhoods in Chicago, this week the composer and clarinetist Angel Bat Dawid orchestrates a...