Tag: Stephen O'Malley

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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...

From 'Old Shep' and 'Old King' to 'Cracker Jack' and Campfire Songs with its crackling ode to an aeriform doggy, the small corpus of music about losing a pet has tended to focus on old Caninae, yet the Heligoland vocalist and experimental musician Karen Vogt bears a more feline persuasion. For the second release on Penelope Trappes' new Nite...

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...