Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes drop surprise new album UNRELATED
Out of the blue, multi-instrumentalist and producer Sam Gendel and bassist, producer and composer Sam Wilkes released yesterday their fourth collaborative album, following 2024's The Doober. Entitled Unrelated, it's an unexpected and wonderful surprise from two of the most daring and distinctive voices orbiting the Los Angeles’ contemporary jazz scene. The two first met while...
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Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes:
🎵 BOA
from the album Music for Saxofone and Bass Guitar
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Sam Gendel:
🎵 They B all Like
from the album Fresh Bread
#TodaysListening includes this recent release from Sam Gendel and Nate Mercereau, "digi-squires," which finds the two doing what they do best: playing at the boundaries of the acoustic and electronic, making sounds from their saxophone and guitar that often sound very unlike a saxophone or guitar, lol.
I don't try to keep up 100% with either of these excellent artists,, as both are prolific, but this one is keeping me very intrigued. At times it borders on ambient, other times settles into something like a groove, like the song linked below.
The album cover suggests something medieval/baroque -- and it's fitting here, somehow.
Here's a taste:
maken melodie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSwjSbgXM78
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“This project helped me look at the world in a way of appreciation for sounds. It fostered an amazement in how many different things you can hear at any given moment when you’re out and about in the world. That’s a nice place to be.” - Nate Mercereau
‘Excellent Traveler’ out now on Third Man Records.
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