Apr 11 2019
Album of the Day: Sinkeater – “Purge”
Artist: Sinkeater
Album: Purge
Label: KMAN 92.5
Style: Postmodern jazz, Roots music
Favorite Track: “Hammond Song”
Music from: Los Angeles, CA
What I like about it: AJ Kluth. I was idly looking to see what AJ Kluth has been up to, and here we go. I hadn’t heard anything by him in a long while. His 2011 release Anvils & Broken Bells was one of this site’s Best of 2011 selections, and since then, nothing has come up. But now we’ve got Purge, from his Sinkeater project. This is music that has gone one step past the modern post-bop sound, yet still has a folk music quality with blues and jazz that sometimes ring out loud and clear. It’s got modern effects and electronics and the blurred lines of demarcation between genres. There are times this music has the lovely heartache of a ballad and other times it unleashes the growl and roar of an indie rock-jazz hybrid. It’s the same nebulous concoction of influences and expressions that made Kluth’s 2011 release so damn compelling.
Your album personnel: AJ Kluth (tenor & soprano saxophones, wind controller), Chili Corder (electric guitar), Anthony Lopez (drums) and Nashir Janmohamed (upright bass).
Available at: Bandcamp
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And be sure to check out Anvils & Broken Bells, the excellent 2011 release from AJ Kluth’s Aldric… still highly recommended by this site. And an interesting release, too, by the Origin/OA2 label.
Artist: Cordâme
Artist: Jozef Dumoulin & Lidlboj
Apr 12 2019
Album of the Day: Daniel Herskedal – “Voyage”
Album: Voyage
Label: Edition Records
Style: Chamber, Arabic, modern jazz
Favorite Track: “The Mediterranean Passage In The Age Of Refugees”
Music from: Oslo, Norway
What I like about it: There may not be a musician on the modern scene who more consistently crafts sound into an atmospheric, thrilling beauty than does Daniel Herskedal. I like how the tubist, one album to the next, keeps expanding on past ideas or incorporating new ones to create something that sounds brand new, while also tying it back to what’s come before… as if a book or movie series where each installment has new characters and plot line, yet falls within a certain continuum that encapsulates everything. On Voyage, Herskedal continues his exploration of Arabic music in a chamber jazz setting, and finds an impressive balance between dramatic and delicate expressions. Can we just have it written into law that Herskedal must record a new album every year?
Your album personnel: Daniel Herskedal (tuba, bass trumpet), Bergmund Waal Skaslien (viola), Eyolf Dale (piano), Helge Andreas Norbakken (percussion) and Maher Mahmoud (oud).
Available at: Amazon | Bandcamp
Listen to more of the album on the artist’s Bandcamp page.
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By davesumner • Jazz Recommendations, Jazz Recommendations - 2018 • 0 • Tags: Daniel Herskedal, Edition Records, Eyolf Dale, Oslo