Announcement – Music

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.

The trio Musicianer have a new album out soon.  Slow Learner is getting released September 25th, 2017 on Iluso Records.  The trio consists of bari saxophonist Josh Sinton, bassist Jason Ajemian and drummer Chad Taylor.

If Sinton is familiar to you, it’s either via his Steve Lacy-inspired project Ideal Bread or that he’s among Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society.  After checking out this new album, it’d be a good idea to get familiar with his holus-Bolus ensemble (a personal favorite).

These days, bassist Ajemian is most known for his Folklords outfit, but I definitely recommend checking out his Highlife stuff, too, especially if you can catch that live.  He displays a remarkable mutability as to influence and genre, and nothing he does really sounds normal.  With each collaboration, he makes his crazy fit everyone else’s crazy.

Long-time readers of this site will recognize drummer Taylor from his Chicago Underground Duo collaboration with Rob Mazurek (and its various offshoots).  Of a more recent vintage, however, is his contribution to Jaimie Branch’s Fly or Die, one of the best things to come out so far in 2017 (and an album that Ajemian also contributes to).

This album is getting released on Iluso Records, a label out of Perth, Australia I’m seeing hit my radar lately.

Here’s a preview of what’s to come…

Your album personnel:  Josh Sinton (baritone sax), Jason Ajemian (contrabass) and Chad Taylor (drums).

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