★Burning Ambulance Music
Irrational Thinking Of The Subject
Ukrainian bassist, electronic musician and composer Sergey Senchuk, aka Tungu, collaborates remotely with 15 highlyregarded avant-garde musicians from around the world onthis astonishing, unclassifiable record. Guests include NoëlAkchoté, John Bisset, Lawrence Casserley, JacekChmiel, Phil Durrant, Wayne Grim, Ayumi Ishito, PakYan Lau, Lucia Margorani, Phil Minton, Lara Suss,Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Gebhard Ullmann, Sabine Vogel,and Sylvia Wysocka.
Mama Killa
Guitarist Ava Mendoza, violinist gabby fluke-mogul, anddrummer Carolina Pérez release their debut album, MamaKilla, named for the Inca goddess of the moon. Mama Killaoffers eight tracks of high-volume, riff-based guitar-violinimprovisation bolstered by thunderous drumming. Working together for the first time, these three musicians havecreated a record that blends country, blues, and psychedelicrock with blast beats and the heaviness of black, death anddoom metal, wrapping it all in feedback, dis…
Flashing Spirits
Legendary pianist Cecil Taylor enjoyed a month-long residen-cy in Berlin in June and July 1988, during which he began anartistic partnership with drummer Tony Oxley which lasteduntil Taylor’s final public performances in 2016. Recorded at theOutside In Festival in Crawley, UK in September 1988, FlashingSpirits is a high-intensity, extraordinarily beautiful piano-drumsduo, previously unreleased and a revelation even for listenerswho followed Taylor’s long and unceasingly exploratory career.
Polarity 3
The third volume of duos between indefatigable tenorsaxophonist Ivo Perelman and adventurous trumpeter NateWooley is their most intimate encounter to date. Beginningwith mournful, almost undersea drones, it moves through avariety of subtly shifting moods, combining old-school jazzromanticism with the kind of nearly telepathic interaction thatonly a long-term creative relationship can inspire. Anyonewho’s enjoyed the first two volumes of this brilliant series willfind this latest dispatch to be a…