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The Arkansas free jazz outpost Mahakala Music says that part of its mission lies in bringing together artists from disparate locales. To that end its latest release Murmuration is billed as a commingling where 'birds from the east coast meet birds from the midwest'. It features the saxophonist Dave Sewelson, who settled in the East Village of Manhattan at the...

'Where your attention is, that becomes lively' is just one of the quotes or aphorisms which David Lynch tends to fall back upon whenever he is asked to explain the nature of ideas or creativity or in his own inimitable helium-winged Midwestern way, the consuming happenstance of 'catching the big fish'. Lynch with his longtime collaborative partner Chrystabell are...

When the baritone saxophone specialist and former Downtown stalwart Dave Sewelson and the visceral guitar virtuoso Ava Mendoza first conceived the idea of a duo album, the expectation was that they'd veer in the tried and true direction of a free jazz squall, heading into the studio one afternoon in the flush of autumn and letting it all hang...