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From: Los Angeles
Genre: Jazz/avant garde/lo-fi/ambient
LP: Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar (2018)
Interpretation of a 1980 Pharaoh Sanders composition (featuring, appropriately, Idris Muhammad on drums). Both Sams are amazing artists and band leaders on their own, and on this album (plus its two follow-ups thus far) they stretch their chosen instruments to their outer limits. Recorded mostly live, looped mouth sounds and taps on a mic drenched in reverb build the spare backing rhythms. Wilkes’s bass generates waves of tonal textures like fog on a city street. Gendel’s sax riffs are so alluring—effortlessly beautiful and endlessly hummable. Your friends who don’t like jazz will still love this. Your friends who do like jazz already know what‘s up.
Aug 6, 2024
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Jazzy, warm, bright, leisurely. Largely improvisational, the album exudes harmony. I have been obsessed with it. Perfect egg boiling music.
Jul 25, 2024
Pleasantly surprised by this jazz/fusion LP, some absolute corker chord changes. My type of groove for now
Apr 6, 2024
i'm a huge jazz enthusiast especially if it's from the swing era, and this album is exactly that. the song tangerine has been a favourite of mine forever, but i had never listened to its full album until today and i am so glad i did. i beg you to give this absolute gem a listen. it'll do you so much good. big band jazz is a gift from god.
i hope you are well, friend.
Apr 8, 2025
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I produce and host a radio show called Electrique Boutique, which plays minimal synth, cold wave, dark wave, post punk, diy/private press electronic music, and anything else that fits the vibe. If you’re into Kraftwerk, Closer by Joy Divison, Cold Cave, Molchat Doma, Black Marble… your stripped down, lo-fi electronic music, then maybe give it a listen! It airs every other Friday 6-8 PM PST on 104.9 KHUH Hollow Earth Radio in Seattle, but all of my episodes are archived on my website (in the link).
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From: London
Genre: Noise pop/dream pop
EP: TOTEP (2018)
Turns on a dime from a perfect dance pop song to utter chaos that flirts with harsh noise like it’s the most natural thing in the world. Sarah’s voice is the little lillypad you’re floating on through it all. It’s a wild ride.
Jul 21, 2024
Documentary following the lives of kids living alone on the streets of Seattle and how they survive. Now living in Seattle myself, it’s deeply unnerving to recognize exactly the area the film mostly centers on (and the still-present circumstances presented), which is right about two miles from where I’m typing this right now. In every interaction these kids have, they are nevertheless endlessly endearing, brimming with personality, conflict, and dreams. I can see hints and glimmers of so many people I know in all of them, and it’s both captivating and terrifying at once. All presented without agenda, judgment, and sentimentality. A heartbreaking But important watch.
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