"Politische Folkmusik ist zurück. In den USA greifen #SingerSongwriter wie Jesse Welles, Joe DeVito, Carsie Blanton und Jordan Smart die Tradition von Bob Dylan, Joan Baez und Woody Guthrie auf und übersetzen sie in die Gegenwart...
#Tracks fragt, warum der Protestsong gerade jetzt wieder so viel Resonanz findet."

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/122214-020-A/tracks

#JesseWelles #JoeDeVito #CarsieBlanton #JordanSmart
#Arte

Musical Interlude: I was introduced to this young singer/songwriter last week, when he was opening for Willi Carlisle. It's a symptom of the times we live in that old-school protest folk is coming back...

"Who Would Jesus Bomb?" performed by Jordan Smart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMPAHL4K-FA

#MusicalInterlude #JordanSmart #Folk #ProtestSong #WWJD

Ended the weekend and started the week after a swim with Tremors in the Static by Vega Trails, released on Gondwana Records in 2022.

Vega Trails is a new project from double-bassist and composer Milo Fitzpatrick, a founder member of Portico Quartet, who has also performed with the likes of Nick Mulvey and Jono McCleary and features saxophonist Jordan Smart (Mammal Hands, Sunda Arc) in a richly powerful duo bringing together two powerfully charismatic musicians. The project which takes its name from Carl Sagan's science fiction novel 'Contact' (a book about signals of new life detected from the Vega system) and was born out of a desire to bring the elements of bass and melody to the foreground in their rawest form and Fitzpatrick explains that he deliberately chose the stripped back approach...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Fmg9BWrBw&list=RDk2Fmg9BWrBw&start_radio=1

#vegatrails #MiloFitzpatrick #PorticoQuartet #JordanSmart #MammalHands #SundaArc #jazz #ambientjazz #GondwanaRecords

#Reingehört
Mammal Hands - CAPTURED SPIRITS (2020) und GIFT FROM THE TREES (#EbenErschienen)

Was zunächst vielleicht ein wenig beliebig beginnt, steigert sich schnell zu meditativ-ekstatisch-groovigen Höhen. Das ist wirklich mitreißend.

Das Konzert am Gründonnerstag in Berlin musste ich leider sausen lassen, da andere Aktivitäten geplant waren, ich hoffe aber, sie bald mal live zu hören.

#JordanSmart (sax) #NickSmart (p) #JesseBarrett (dr # tabla)

#MammalHands #Jazz #Trio