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Reijseger, Fraanje, and Sylla create a unique, personal, and most original music. All three have written special compositions for Down Deep, and their individual vocabulary connects in a very natural way. After experiencing great concert performances, music producer Stefan Winter asked Reijseger to record this new album live-to-analog-two-track to capture real moments, without any digital editing or manipulation.
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Anti-House is perhaps Laubrock's most New York-centric band, comprised of herself on tenor and soprano saxophones, guitarist Mary Halvorson, pianist Kris Davis, bassist John Hébert, and drummer Tom Rainey.
Anti-House has, over time, grown into a band in which the writing has become more personal – after all, Laubrock moved to New York only a scant couple of years before the first record was waxed.
Group identity in hand, Laubrock's compositions reflect a wide range of formal challenges and present a contrasting, shape-shifting palette. As Rainey puts it, "each piece is its own universe," selfcontained but related facets of Laubrock's personality that are distinct and unrepeated. Price: $18.95
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140 gram LP clear vinyl in clear PVC sleeve (ltd. ed. 500 copies). "A professionally recorded live performance of Television at San Francisco's legendary Old Waldorf club in June of 1978, just two months after the release of their second LP, Adventure. Excellent sound quality and brilliant versions of tracks like 'Little Johnny Jewel', 'Marquee Moon', and 'The Dream's Dream', is what makes this LP essential listening. In fact, just about every track on this album is superior to the versions on any other known recording."
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A major force on Chicago’s singularly inventive music scene for two decades, cornetist Rob Mazurek has recorded with high profile artists such as Tortoise, Jim O'Rourke, Stereolab, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and is an intrepid sound explorer.
Skull Sessions combines two of Rob's groups: Sao Paulo Underground and Starlicker with additional personnel. The band is an international cast of masters, including drummer John Herndon (of Tortoise), vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz and flutist Nicole Mitchell, (both DownBeat poll winners on their respective instruments), Guilherme Granado on keyboards and electronics, Carlos Issa on guitar and electronics, Mauricio Takara on percussion and cavaquinho (Brazilian ukulele), and Thomas Rohrer on C melody saxophone and rabeca (a rustic Brazilian viola associated with the northeast). The fusion of these musicians ignites a beautiful cosmic burst!
The big bang that led to Skull Sessions detonated when the We Want Miles exhibition at SESC Sao Paulo requested that Mazurek devise a presentation related to his deep affinity for the music of Miles Davis. In characteristic fashion, he decided against recreating any of Davis’s music, instead composing new pieces and rearranging earlier works for the Octet’s particular personalities and unusual timbres. The resulting album is a exploratory album that puts great musicians and compositions together and trusts in them enough to simply let them go! Price: $15.95
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German import recorded on February 4 and 5, 2009.
Berlin's Jazzwerkstatt label is similarly celebrating dreams with this partnership between the great American saxophonist and bass clarinetist David Murray, and sometime Ornette Coleman alter ego on bass guitar, Jamaaladeen Tacuma. In this case, the dreams belong to black America, embracing 1963 Martin Luther King, and Barack Obama's campaign mantra, Yes We Can. The latter sentiment reflects this session's early-2009 recording date, just three months after Obama's election, and before the harsh political realities had kicked in. But the music retains its eager, rough-hewn dynamism (Jazzwerkstatt sessions often sound like minimally premeditated works-in-progress) through some very sparky, post-bop themes, passages of Joe Zawinul-influenced synth-driven world-funk, and some awesome sax playing from Murray. Technology is used to mirror fast, improvised lines with the sonorities of other instruments – the way in which keyboard sounds slipstream Murray's tumbling horn flights is particularly absorbing. Brooding, backbeat-powered bass-guitar vamps and ghostly electric-guitar shimmerings trigger boiling tenor-sax eruptions (the saxophonist's son, Mingus Murray, is the impressive guitarist). Elsewhere, coolly-swinging episodes, such as Hotel Le Prince, give way to Weather Reportish passages; free-sax ascents squeal over rock-music bass licks; and the poet Amiri Baraka appears for a brief recital. The improv-echoing effect is overused, but there's more strong melody on this recording than in many avant-funk sessions, and Murray is as formidable as ever. - The Guardian Price: $19.95
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