jesse jarnow...now resuming, a rolling/occasional thread of new(ish) jams & releases i'm enjoying. #music
bold move to put out an album in august titled "august" that successfully channels august (& especially mellow late august evenings), but good for scree, who at least put out "jasmine on a night in july" in spring. airy floating jazz, ala super gentle frisell. https://screeband.bandcamp.com/album/august
August, by Scree
11 track album
i think the submissives might be on hiatus, but delightful weirdo rock, like an all-women "freak out" era mothers with the shaggs knob turned up slightly (minus the disjointedness), or maybe like an expanded version of the late great grass widow. https://submissives.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-value-sound-studios
Live At Value Sound Studios, by The Submissives
13 track album
bright multitracked "solo" congolese #guitar by vumbi dekula, mostly instrumental. enormous hits of light, sweet sunshine. https://vumbidekula.bandcamp.com/album/congo-guitar
Congo Guitar, by Vumbi Dekula
7 track album
exhilarating #jazz-adjacent #beats/beat-adjacent space/space-adjacent jazz from brazil that makes me suspect i should check out everything guilherme granado has contributed to. https://keroxenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-parades
Ghost Parades, by Guilherme Granado Goat Unity
9 track album
kaleidoscopic australian sunshine-psych delights by bananagun, pleasurably engaging my canterbury receptors. https://bananagun.bandcamp.com/album/why-is-the-colour-of-the-sky
Why is the Colour of the Sky?, by Bananagun
10 track album
sweet & fun music made by a goddamn beatle, 2025 edition. enjoying ringo's country album & especially this tune. (was also quite charmed by his linda perry-written EP last year.) https://youtu.be/YCShp4ZTi1U
Ringo Starr - Come Back (Audio) ft. Lucius
i'm just slightly late to the SML party, but this is a strain of future #jazz i've been waiting for, tactile new pathways & shapes. excited to catch their #nyc return in december. https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/small-medium-large
Small Medium Large, by SML
13 track album
glowing late night songs from brigid mae power.
stone perfect covers ("see no evil," "you don't know me," "rose marie," many more): https://brigidmaepower.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-you
even more hushed EP of originals (plus another c&w cover): https://brigidmaepower.bandcamp.com/album/silver-strand-tapes
stone perfect covers ("see no evil," "you don't know me," "rose marie," many more): https://brigidmaepower.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-you
even more hushed EP of originals (plus another c&w cover): https://brigidmaepower.bandcamp.com/album/silver-strand-tapes
Songs for You, by Brigid Mae Power
9 track album
italian duo tera tera hanging in the sweet spot between teo #jazz & eno jams, sliced/diced/overdubbed studio improv/grooves, occasionally edging into song zones. https://hyperjazzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tera-tera
Tera Tera, by Tera Tera
12 track album
i've been dreaming of a pedal steel led jamming band for so long that i think at first i may've been a tad suspicious of the barry walker unit (the rose city band reconfigured), but this is some deep, gorgeous improv & i'm happy to be in their dream instead.
https://barrywalker.bandcamp.com/album/barry-walker-unit-at-the-13th-moon-gravity-well
https://barrywalker.bandcamp.com/album/barry-walker-unit-at-the-13th-moon-gravity-well
Barry Walker Unit - At the 13th Moon Gravity Well, by Barry Walker Unit
4 track album
dialing the sunshine up to 11 with the new album by the mahotella queens, south african mbaqanga girl group active since '64, still featuring founding member hilda tloubatla & sounding pretty fresh. https://umsakazo.bandcamp.com/album/buya-buya-come-back
Buya Buya: Come Back, by Mahotella Queens
12 track album
wee EP by the hobknobs, dutch duo spun off from the excellent lewsberg, sweet unassuming VU-ish jangle strum. and, like, catchy. https://correctcassettes.bandcamp.com/album/gather-no-moss
Gather No Moss, by The Hobknobs
3 track album
floating in the gentle acoustic waves of steve gunn's "music for writers" but (for my own use) feels slightly more like editing music, neutral-ish beauty to straighten threads by. https://stevegunn.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-writers
Music for Writers, by Steve Gunn
10 track album
loved the chicago underground duo live set i caught last week but (unusually, given that they're #jazz & #improv grounded) think i'm way more into the album, where the sound sources are more blurred & it feels like a much bigger screen. https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/hyperglyph
Hyperglyph, by Chicago Underground Duo
11 track album
shimmering acoustic-ish places by sofie birch & antonia nowacka, occupying the fine line between gentle/ambient & dreamy/unsettling. https://sofiebirchantoninanowacka.bandcamp.com/album/hiraeth
Hiraeth, by Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka
13 track album
not sure what knocks me out more: that 86-year-old peter stampfel's new album is weird/wise/heavy/fun & one of my fave things he's made or that he actually reinvents/redefines #folk music (again), preserving '50/'60s ad jingles & setting aphorisms/prayers to music. https://peterstampfel.bandcamp.com/album/song-shards
great extended liner notes, too: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/63e27600635ac03e373613e0/t/687e6c298418246c6797e44e/1753115697567/Song+Shards+booklet.pdf
great extended liner notes, too: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/63e27600635ac03e373613e0/t/687e6c298418246c6797e44e/1753115697567/Song+Shards+booklet.pdf
Song Shards, by Peter Stampfel
46 track album
one strain of future-#jazz to which i'm especially susceptible is when it sounds like conlon nancarrow's player piano studies or, like, aphex twin's robot album. johnny richards & dave king (of the bad plus) hit 88 on the time machine and/or #piano. https://falsedoorrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-awkward-2
The New Awkward, by Johnny Richards & Dave King
10 track album
ecstatic headspinning beats from kinshasa. fulu miziki apparently disbanded a few years back but this will probably sound like the future for a good while still. https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/ndjila-wa-mudujimu
N'Djila Wa Mudujimu, by Lady Aicha & Pisko Crane's Original Fulu Miziki of Kinshasa
11 track album
setting live at public records last april (fresh from their frow show session), billowing electroacoustic #improv bliss with processed harmonium, conversational drums, hammered banjo, etc. a wonderful space, even if it doesn't quite capture the surround sound. https://setting.bandcamp.com/album/at-public-records
tired: the piano has been drinking.
inspired: the drum machine has been ripping bong hits.
my fave new sounds in a minute by wet tuna. "head fooler" is 20 minutes of relentless jammy/noisy/dubby/furriness. https://wettuna.bandcamp.com/album/sound-dimension-fmb
inspired: the drum machine has been ripping bong hits.
my fave new sounds in a minute by wet tuna. "head fooler" is 20 minutes of relentless jammy/noisy/dubby/furriness. https://wettuna.bandcamp.com/album/sound-dimension-fmb
SOUND DIMENSION: FMB, by WET TUNA
2 track album
kinda mindbending how much more water damage sound like natural information society when it's from a soundboard tape & you can hear the instruments clearly. https://waterdamageatx.bandcamp.com/album/hotel-vegas-071725
Hotel Vegas 071725, by Water Damage
1 track album
fresh prog-psych future-pastness by jantar (with a heady abdullah ibrahim cover). https://jantar.bandcamp.com/album/acqua-vergine
Acqua Vergine, by Jantar
5 track album
bonnie dobson, author of "morning dew," put out a new album this summer, backed by the british psych band the hanging stars, & a lot of it's super cool! (she's 84.) https://thehangingstars.bandcamp.com/album/dreams
Dreams, by Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars
8 track album
or i could just, like, leave the new natural information society album on the record player, flipping it over & over & over & live inside the slow motion bliss until spring or so. https://eremiterecords.bandcamp.com/album/perseverance-flow #jazz @vinylrecords
there's something about alan bishop's recent alvarius b albums that feel, like, one DNA strand removed from gene ween (very complimentary). surprisingly unmenacing covers LP has dylan, tom t. hall, etc., not as radically rewritten as in the past. https://viaparigi.bandcamp.com/album/that-s-how-i-got-to-memphis-and-other-egyptian-love-songs-2 @vinylrecords
not sure i've seen it mentioned/reviewed, but the great sonny smith of sonny & the sunsets went to dakar & made an album with senegalese musicians, a surprisingly sweet fit with his ultra laconic delivery. https://sonnyandthesunsets.bandcamp.com/album/the-diving-kind
The Diving Kind, by Sonny & The Sunsets
10 track album
irresistible-to-me ineffable lo-fi psych-folk by dagmar zuniga. can't remember how i came across this, but one of my quiet faves of the year. inscrutable weirdo timelessness. https://dagmarzuniga.bandcamp.com/album/in-filth-your-mystery-is-kingdom-far-smile-peasant-in-yellow-music
in filth your mystery is kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music, by dagmar zuniga
14 track album
now jamming walter willy, awesome bent psych-pop weirdness from brazil, compact little tunes & self-destructing arrangements & completely fucked-up sound bursts. super brown, in the ween sense. a few tunes in english & a syd cover. https://chupamanga.bandcamp.com/album/cintur-es-de-van-halen
Cinturões de Van Halen, by Walter Willy
27 track album
vivid percussion dreams & off-world jazz by joe westerlund. https://joewesterlund.bandcamp.com/album/curiosities-from-the-shift @vinylrecords
this new & final(?) album by late pedal steel hero susan alcorn playing with an improvising metal band is just so cool & startling & bittersweet, like she was just getting started. https://nomadwarmachineandsusanalcorn.bandcamp.com/album/contra-madre
Contra Madre, by Nomad War Machine and Susan Alcorn
7 track album
filippo ansaldi & simone sims longo's new album of mostly gentle sax/electronics is imaginative & spacious & sometimes quietly grand, frequently (but not always) adjacent to uhlmann/johnson/wilkes, if that's how you swing, though the last track is right koyaanisqatsi-y. https://simonesimslongo.bandcamp.com/album/solo-suono #jazz
Solo Suono, by Filippo Ansaldi & Simone Sims Longo
8 track album
drumz but also space (ugandan xylophone ensemble live-dubbed in tokyo edition) https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/phantom-keys
Phantom Keys, by Nakibemebe Embaire Group & Naoyuki Uchida
4 track album
the dreamiest of the dreamy: new album of john zorn compositions by the gnostic trio, which is to say bill frisell on #guitar, (looking very relaxed) kenny wolleson on vibes, & carol emanuel on harp, plus a spot of bleepdom by ikue mori. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kpnitAMd1fFvxEWbZtsi0Y47_nIglDHlE #jazz
once again pointed back to the lost & vocodery future with nobukazu takemura (& sheltering there). https://nobukazutakemura.bandcamp.com/album/knot-of-meanings
knot of meanings, by Nobukazu Takemura
18 track album
really quite striking how instantly recognizable jake xerxes fussell is as a slow rolling guitarist. but there are also some atmospheric pieces on this #soundtrack that make me excited to hear him (maybe) fold some new approaches into his #folk revivin'. https://jakexerxesfussell.bandcamp.com/album/rebuilding
Rebuilding, by Jake Xerxes Fussell, James Elkington
17 track album
Taylor Jessen@bourgwick jeeziz! 😍
Picnicker's AlmanacOoooh, I like this.
ink@bourgwick thanks for this! It seems like there ought to be a Wikipedia article for Westerlund at this point? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafaun
@ink he's certainly a world famous hero in this household
Mick Collins@bourgwick Holy crow, this is awesome