Sick fusion


Henri Taxier - Sand Woman

Good one

Dude’s been at it 50 years!

Live at the Blue Whale by Bobby Bradford, Hafez Modirzadeh, Roberto Miguel Miranda, Vijay Anderson

https://nobusinessrecords.bandcamp.c...the-blue-whale

California based quartet performing in LA. Bradford worked and recorded with Ornette (Science Fiction, Broken Shadows). Hafez Modirzadeh is a music professor at SFSU.

This is rooted in the more modal and non-western side of Ornette’s palette. Recommended.

OTHER LIFE FORMS by Gordon Beeferman

https://gordonbeeferman.bandcamp.com...her-life-forms

Rooted a long time ago in the Schoenberg tradition. Third stream. Bassist Pascal Niggenkemper, whose solo stuff is fantastic, leads the experimental charge.

Year One by Heartland Trio

http://heartlandtrio.bandcamp.com/album/year-one

Self-identified as avant garde, free, and even experimental this is in fact very mainstream nu jazz or whatever. That doesn’t mean it’s bad. It’s fine. If it just had a hodgepodge or meaningless tags (something BandCamp has fortunately pretty much eliminated) I wouldn’t be forced into the assumption that these Bloomington, Indiana rubes don’t know any better.

Well the album starts with “Resolution” and pushes very softly into the avant garde toward the end.

There’s a few moments but then it only sounds like an identity crisis.

Honestly if it wasn’t mislabeled I would review it more fairly.

j frisco naked

https://jfrisco.bandcamp.com/album/naked

Naked (released two days ago) is definitely good enough to make waves. Hits the core with a very pure aesthetic. Self described as “improvised genre-fluid soundscapes” all goals set out are achieved. Beautiful modal soloing over relaxed prog stylings. Sometimes Coltranian and sometimes sort of like Slint sometimes Jarboe. It gives you the feeling that they’re doing exactly whatever they want and that perfectly coincides with what they’re meant to be doing.

5/5 highest rating
Strongest recommendation

The Detectives by James McKain

https://jamesmckain.bandcamp.com/album/the-detectives

A solo saxophone recording from a NYC free jazz subway busker.

More than bass or solo percussion or any other instrument I think a lone saxophonist has the most daunting of all challenges. I’m tempted to say all options are damn near exhausted but like explorers in Borges‘ Library we find the possibilities are bigger than our universe. McKain uses every weapon from silence to squonk. He puts himself out there. Probably influenced by Kaoru Abe, McKain explores the garden at his own leisure.

A Jones In Time Saves Nine by Larry Ochs, Mark Dresser, Vladimir Tarasov - Jones Jones

https://nobusinessrecords.bandcamp.c...ime-saves-nine


The entire three piece is on fire but Larry Ochs has definitely still got it baby. Dude’s pushing 70 and plays his sax with forceful aggressive vigor. Some runs even sound like he might be checking out Colin Stetson. Mostly it’s like a more tempered Brötzmann. Not that Father Time is waiting for anyone. Grindy listed Ochs as one of his favorite saxophonists.

Good shout. I've seen Mark Dresser a few times, he's incredible.


Hamid Drake & Mako Sica - Ronda

https://i.postimg.cc/X7nLQBDC/11-CFD...B4816610-C.jpg

https://muteantsoundsnetlabel.bandca.../album/roaring

ROARING by The Noise Eating Monsters

Aggressive free jazz post punk fusion rooted in the styles of Universal Congress Of, James Blood Ulmer, and Derek Bailey. The drummer played on a Bolt Thrower album. At first I thought oh Lightning Bolt that makes sense but it’s the metal bolt band which is a little more surprising.

Very highly recommended

PS Released today