Album Preview

We don’t normally feature re-issues or archival releases, but Bird is the Worm is happy to make an exception for one of the greatest composers and musicians of our time, Hermeto Pascoal.  The 1976 session, recorded at São Paulo’s Vice Versa Studios, is getting released November 3rd, 2017 by Far Out Recordings.  Titled Viajando Com O Som, this music gem highlights Pascoal’s ability to capture both the dynamic nature of a free-flowing river and the individual beauty of each of its individual rivulets and ripples all in a single vision.  The music of Hermeto Pascoal is something you can just immerse yourself in for endless hours or just sit back and allow yourself to be carried away.  This session with his Grupo Vice Versa is one such glorious example.

This is very exciting news.

Your album pesonnel:  Hermeto Pascoal (electric piano, flute, voice), Zé Eduardo Nazario (drums, percussion, voice, bamboo harmonic flute), Zeca Assumpção (bass), Lelo Nazario (electric piano), Nivaldo Ornelas (tenor sax, flute), Mauro Senise (saxophones, flute), Raul Mascarenhas (saxophones, flute), Toninho Horta (guitar) and Aleuda Chaves (vocals).

You can learn more about the album and pre-order it on the artist’s Bandcamp page.

Mammal Hands have a new album on the horizon.  The Norwich-based trio is releasing their third album Shadow Work on October 27th, 2017 on Gondwana Records.

Here’s a preview of what’s to come…

Your album personnel:  Jordan Smart (saxophones), Nick Smart (piano) and Jesse Barrett (drums, percussion).

You can learn more about the album and pre-order it on the artist’s Bandcamp page.

Clarinetist Anat Cohen has a new album coming out.  Happy Song is getting released October 6th, 2017 on Anzic Records, and it features Cohen’s Tentet.

Here’s a preview of what’s to come…

Your album personnel:  Anat Cohen (clarinet), Oded Lev-Ari (musical director), Rubin Kodheli (cello), Nadje Noordhuis (trumpet, flügelhorn), Nick Finzer (trombone), Owen Broder (baritone sax, bass clarinet), James Shipp (vibraphone, percussion), Vitor Gonçalves (piano, accordion), Sheryl Bailey (guitar), Tal Mashiach (bass) and Anthony Pinciotti (drums).

You can learn more about Happy Song, and pre-order it, on the Anzic Records Bandcamp page.

Rob Mazurek has a new album on the horizon.  Chimeric Stoned Horn is getting released September 29th, 2017 on Astral Spirits.  As with anything new from Mazurek, it’s probably best to go into the project making no assumptions based on previous experiences, even in the context that this is a follow-up to Vortice of the Faun.  It’s also quite obvious that Mazurek’s move down to Marfa, Texas fanned the flames of his creative drive.

Here’s a preview of what’s to come…

Your album personnel:  Rob Mazurek (piccolo trumpet, modular synths, samplers, voice, bells).

This album is one facet of a larger Mazurek project.  You can learn more about it all, and pre-order the album on the artist’s Bandcamp page.

The trio Girls In Airports have a new album on the horizon.  Simply titled Live, and recorded just this year in Germany, it’s getting released September 22nd, 2017 on Edition Records.

Here’s a preview of what’s to come…

Your album personnel:  Martin Stender (saxophone), Lars Greve (saxophones, clarinets), Mathias Holm (keys), Victor Dybbroe (percussion) and Mads Forsby (drums).

You can learn more about the album and pre-order it on the artist’s Bandcamp page.