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Tracks of the Week 29.06.24

Tracks of the Week
His home from the founding of the label in 1997 and the release of his Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra opus Sunrise in the Tone World, the great free jazz bassist William Parker raises two new albums this week on the Brooklyn bastion AUM Fidelity, which retains its commitment to transcendent jazz and elemental soul. On the babbling 'Five Angels...

Fuubutsushi – Meridians

Albums
The conflux of spiritual jazz with rootsy Americana often takes a minimalist bent, finding a nexus somewhere between the Coltranes and Pharoah Sanders on the one hand and Ry Cooder or Bill Frisell on the other, as though emphasising the liquidity of those sheets of sound while eliding some of their verticality, embracing with a sense of spaciousness and...

Tracks of the Week 17.09.22

Tracks of the Week
With oblique references to 'The Anchor Song' and 'Hyperballad' plus the Georges Bataille favourite Story of the Eye, this week through the fanfare of retreating horns and a subterranean bass squelch Björk steadies the glass submersible of a romantic relationship. Expanding the space for contemporary Black art through a blend of popular forms with cutting-edge music production, Kelela returns...