Brian Molley Quartet's 3rd studio album Modern Traditions once again demonstrates a unique blend of jazz and world music delivered by a long-established band at the height of their powers.
https://brianmolley.bandcamp.com/album/modern-traditions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exb7aq-c3PI&list=RDexb7aq-c3PI&start_radio=1
Ended the week and started the weekend with Bloodless by Benoît Pioulard, released on Disques d'Honoré in 2021.
A collection of pieces recorded across lockdown ; a reconciliation with the new way of things.
W&P at La Berceuse (Brooklyn, NY) throughout 2020 with electric & acoustic guitars, voice, bass guitar, kalimba, dulcimer, melodica, glockenspiel, Moog synthesizer, 1/4" magnetic tape, microcassette and field recordings
https://pioulard.bandcamp.com/album/bloodless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-464PzpKXaw&list=PLdBtxKIB13kCyimuWHlVHnhNl8GaqOHXG&index=1
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Pharaonic Crosstalk by Rhyton released on Feeding Tube Records in 2021
"...Pharaonic Crosstalk was recorded at Gary's Electric studio in Greenpoint in bits and pieces, when it wasn't being used otherwise. The process was begun about four years ago, and really only got finished when the Plague shut things down. The sound this time has evolved as Shuford suggests. Drummer Rob Smith shows some of the lessons he must have learned while studying with Bernard Purdie, lending even the zoniest sections a groove-oid bottom that won't stop. And this does not infer boogie tendencies, so much as a solid new approach to fundamentals. Shuford's multivalent string aktion, combined with Jimmy SeiTang's wonderful bass/keyboard dualism and Smith's provocative percolation make this an album of crazy hybridized stoned space-funk-psych-fusion while still manifesting experimental highlights.." --Byron Coley, 2021 Edition of 400.
https://feedingtuberecords.bandcamp.com/album/pharaonic-crosstalk
I ended the week and started the weekend with A Hole In The Fence by Walt McClements released on American Dreams Records in 2021
Joanthan Wilinger wrote for Pitchfork:
"Nothing else Walt McClements has recorded sounds remotely like A Hole in the Fence..His pop songwriting is vanilla and earnest, and the focus on accordion as a focal point provides a passing resemblance to Beirut’s early records, but with traces of post-punk skitter and fewer literary ambitions. By contrast, A Hole in the Fence, his first record under his given name, is all shadow and abstraction, full of heaving drones and flickering specks of reedy treble that steadily fluctuate and churn. While the album’s five pieces for electronically processed accordion sound like tentative steps into the unknown by a composer just figuring out his strengths, McClements often channels feelings of genuine wonder into his layers of swirling, overtone-rich chords..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQps-TUTMaE&list=PLqKq6MKmErb_oUaP8-SN2tsUOks04StGR&index=1
Andi Chorley