Tag: Kassi Valazza

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With a full band behind her Kassi Valazza still manages to sound solitary and spare on her stunning new album From Newman Street. There is a sense of clarity and perspicacity to her singing and songwriting even as she seems no less than any of us susceptible to the keening and relentless churn of the surrounding world. Her purview...

Conceived as an amorous response to the digital age, the steamy outpouring of soundtrack work for Virgil Abloh at Louis Vuitton and Bafic whose documentary short Sub Eleven Seconds poetically envisioned the Olympic quest of Sha'Carri Richardson, on The Sport of Love seasoned collaborators Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga and Tapiwa Svosve unpick the yearning heart and flickering frailty of...

Tributes, reminiscences, and paid dues head up the playlist this week, as Elucid follows his stellar work with Billy Woods as one half of Armand Hammer with I Told Bessie in loving memory of his paternal grandmother, Moor Mother elevates the wide intervals and dazzling harmonics of the great trumpeter Woody Shaw, and Heroes Are Gang Leaders continue to...