Tag: Marcus Gilmore

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

By the seventh minute of 'Voltaire', the opening track from the drummer Marcus Gilmore's album Journey to the New which was captured live over successive nights in the summer of 2024 at the Village Vanguard, the ensemble has established such a slow-moving and thoroughly beguiling air that almost anything else would feel like a jolt or a rupture. Through...

Muzzled by the use of electronics, it is Adam O'Farrill's trumpet which drags us headlong into the whirlpool of Patricia Brennan's new album Breaking Stretch, her third as a leader following the solo effort Maquishti in 2021 and More Touch the following year, a quartet outing which was released to widespread acclaim on Pyroclastic Records. The percussive gulp of...