Tag: Jefre Cantu-Ledesma

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With the crackle and hiss of an old blues record and a high-pitched caterwaul which lies somewhere between Grouper and Skip James, from the living room of her house in the seaside town of Fremantle in Western Australia, Tiger Hutchence-Geldof goes under the name Heavenly for a heartfelt and potent tribute to her sister Peaches. Liz Harris and Jefre...

This week the multi-instrumentalist JJJJJerome Ellis frames speech dysfluency through personal reflections and watery etymologies, river running from the works of the sixteenth-century French poet Guillaume Bouchet and eighteenth-century abolitionist Olaudah Equiano to contemporary thinkers like Toni Morrison and Derek Walcott. Bill Charlap and the rhythm section of Peter and Kenny Washington give a modern swing to a standard...

As part of the 25th anniversary celebrations at Jagjaguwar, this week Hypnotic Brass Ensemble announced This is a Mindfulness Drill, a thorough reimagining of the 1998 record Sapphie by Richard Youngs. The original album by Youngs was an aching ode to the memory of a pet Alsatian. The first salvo from Hypnotic Brass Ensemble features the sweetly sustaining voice...