Matthias Müller, Ricardo Tejero, Vasco Trilla - Implositions (Orbit577)
Implositions was inspired by apparent opposites and contradictions. As the first release from Matthias Müller (Trombone), Ricardo Tejero (Saxophone), and Vasco Trilla (Percussion), the experimental project is an inquiry into physics, metaphysics, and the root causes of tension that hold our world together; the resulting extended tracks are balanced explorations of those competing forces. Incorporating ambient noise, distorted brass, and scattered percussion, the music is punctuated and structured by negative space, looking for natural implosions of sound.
Michael Marcus, Joe McPhee, Jay Rosen, Warren Smith - Blue Reality Quartet! (Mahakala Music)
In 2018, jazz musician extraordinaire Michael Marcus got an invite to bring his duo with drummer Jay Rosen to the Austrian venue Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf. And when he arrived, the promoter of their show sprung a novel idea on them: performing their set with fellow reedsman Joe McPhee and another drummer, Warren Smith. The name of this project has a little history behind it and multiple layers of meaning. 20 years ago, Marcus and Rosen recorded an album called
Blue Reality, as part of a trio with bassist Tarus Matteen. It was another one of those magical sessions with the right mix of players and energy that Marcus always wanted to revisit.
Minyo Crusaders - Live at Le Guess Who? (Mais Um)
Minyo Crusaders return with a live recording of their triumphant headline performance at Le Guess Who? Festival from their debut European tour in November 2019. Described as a "a concert unlike any other, where a commitment to having a good time went alongside a celebration of rustic traditions" by The Times, Minyo Crusaders’ dazzled audiences across Europe with their dynamic reworkings of historic Japanese folk songs (min'yō) with Latin, African, Caribbean and Asian rhythms.
Nick Storring - Newfoundout (Mappa)
Over the last decade, Toronto-based composer Nick Storring has become well known for his unique, painstaking compositional style of layering performances on a plethora of objects and musical/electro-mechanical instruments to deeply moving effect.
Newfoundout, his seventh album, follows last year’s lush and nocturnal
My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell (out on Orange Milk Records) with more rhythmical material and an almost theatrical, phantasmal sensibility.
Répéter - Bad Twang (Bokeh Versions)
Austrian musician Martin Werner aka Répéter fka Rer Repeter presents
Bad Twang, an adventurous approach in bringing together the aesthetics of surf-rock soundtracks, post-world exotica and punk attitude with spring reverb’d dub. "It’s your post-nuclear surf film Shadows montage, John Wayne’s hologram in a zombie Tarantino deepfake", notes the British imprint Bokeh.
Saba Alizadeh - I May Never See You Again (30M Records)
Iranian composer and Kamancheh virtuoso, Saba Alizadeh releases his new album
I May Never See You Again on the newly founded Hamburg label 30M Records. Influenced by Iranian harmonics, musique concrète and sophisticated, forward-looking beat science, Saba Alizadeh's recent work represent an incredibly exciting act of mutual inspiration - when Iranian scales and Western electroacoustic understanding powerfully unite.
V.A. - Second Wave (Random Numbers)
The
Second Wave compilation comprises the contributions of 16 producers close to the label and kindred to the sonic quest that Random Numbers has been pursuing since 2015. This collection of 12 tracks delivers a multi-faceted testimony of our experience with the pandemic, translating feelings of absence, desire, and necessity into a mind-bending sound exploration.
