Tag: Lucy Railton

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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...

The jazz veterans Andrew Cyrille and Bill Frisell have many feathers in their well-worn caps, whether one plucks at the percussionist's iconic sets of the early sixties with Walt Dickerson and Ahmed Abdul-Malik, his pioneering free jazz alongside Cecil Taylor and Milford Graves, or the guitarist's cultivation of the ECM sound during the eighties. They have also done more...

Described as 'a suite of sensual ambient jazz collages, designed to take the listener on a roadtrip through the subconscious', for her debut release on Awe the composer and producer Laurel Halo drew from the fourth-world missives, sinuous jazz piano and drone minimalism of her monthly NTS radio show, the slow cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul and a stint at...