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The self-titled album presents a juicy suite of elegantly-orchestrated lo-fi jazz instrumentals germinated from home recording experiments by the group’s producer\/arranger Will Miller.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eApplying a compositional approach attributable to his experience producing hip-hop beats as much as his studies at Oberlin Conservatory, Miller built melodic sketches on foundations of samples \u0026amp; loops before bringing pieces to the group for collective development. 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And his patience, ambition, and persistence have yielded an appropriately career-defining body of work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs epic and expansive as it is impressively potent and concise, the 11 song suite was created over 7+ years, as McCraven strived to design a highly personal but broadly communicable fusion of odd-meter original compositions from his working songbook with orchestral, large ensemble arrangements and the edit-heavy “organic beat music” that he’s honed over a growing body of production-craft.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith contributions from over a dozen musicians and\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecreative partners from his tight-knit circle of collaborators – including Jeff Parker, Junius Paul, Brandee Younger, Joel Ross, and Marquis Hill – the music was recorded in 5 different studios and 4 live performance spaces while McCraven engaged in extensive post-production work from home. 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It’s an evolution and a milestone for McCraven, the producer; but moreover it’s the strongest and clearest statement we’ve yet to hear from McCraven, the composer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn These Times is an almost unfathomable new peak for an already-soaring innovator who has been called \"one of the best arguments for jazz's vitality\" by The New York Times, as well as recently, and perhaps more aptly, a \"cultural synthesizer.\" While challenging and pushing himself into uncharted territories, McCraven quintessentially expresses his unique gifts for collapsing space and transcending borders – blending past, present, and future into elegant, poly-textural arrangements of jazz-rooted, post-genre 21st century folk music.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"credits-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003ereleased September 23, 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMakaya McCraven - drums, sampler, percussion, tambourine, baby sitar, synths, kalimba, handclaps, vibraphone, wurlitzer, organ\u003cbr\u003eJunius Paul - double bass, percussion, electric bass guitar, small instruments\u003cbr\u003eJeff Parker - guitar\u003cbr\u003eBrandee Younger - harp\u003cbr\u003eJoel Ross - vibraphone, marimba\u003cbr\u003eMarta Sofia Honer - viola\u003cbr\u003eLia Kohl - cello\u003cbr\u003eMacie Stewart - violin\u003cbr\u003eZara Zaharieva - violin\u003cbr\u003eGreg Ward - alto sax\u003cbr\u003eIrvin Pierce - tenor sax\u003cbr\u003eMarquis Hill - trumpet, flugelhorn\u003cbr\u003eGreg Spero - piano\u003cbr\u003eRob Clearfield - piano\u003cbr\u003eMatt Gold - guitar, percussion, baby sitar\u003cbr\u003eDe’Sean Jones - flute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll music composed by Makaya McCraven; except “Lullaby” composed by Makaya McCraven based off a song originally written by Péter Dabasi and Agnes Zsigmondi. 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Culled, cut, post-produced \u0026amp; re-composed by Makaya using recordings of free improvisation he collected over dozens of live sessions in Chicago, through incubation \u0026amp; experimentation In The Moment established a procedural blueprint that he has since been sharpening \u0026amp; developing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHoning this process on narrower sets of source material, Makaya followed up In The Moment with 2 mixtape releases – 2017’s Highly Rare, a lo-fi free-jazz-meets-hip-hop suite he made from a live 4-track recording, and June 2018’s Where We Come From (CHICAGOxLONDON Mixtape), which he produced using live recordings from London jazz hub Total Refreshment Centre (captured at a showcase called CHICAGOxLONDON).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, after 4+ years of refining his approach, Makaya McCraven puts forth an ambitious new work – Universal Beings – a culmination of concepts conceived by In The Moment, and his most elegant \u0026amp; articulated\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ework yet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpurred by a desire to connect with old friends \u0026amp; new collaborators in places where similar spirits \u0026amp; diasporic jazz innovations are thriving, Makaya worked with International Anthem across late 2017 \u0026amp; early 2018 to setup intimate live sessions in New York \u0026amp; Chicago, and pop-up “studio” sessions in London \u0026amp; Los Angeles. Though the contexts and logistics were D.I.Y. (as they almost always are with IARC), the friends \u0026amp; friends-of-friends that Makaya was able to enlist are top tier players across the board. Some might call them super groups of “new” jazz musicians from their respective cities, with Makaya as a common denominator. But more importantly, collectively they make an inspiring display of the organic global inter-connectedness of the Black American music tradition in 2018.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhysically spanning national \u0026amp; international borders to create an album that musically spans deep spiritual jazz meditations, pulsing post-bop grooves \u0026amp; straight-ahead boom-bap, Makaya McCraven defies the simplifications of revisionism \u0026amp; regionalism while celebrating the sounds, settings \u0026amp; stories that define the provenance of his work. 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He’s a resident at the legendary London creative hub Total Refreshment Centre, a recording artist for the off-grid, Scottish Hebridean island label Lost Map, and now the latest arrival into Chicago-based International Anthem’s growing family of progressive musical explorationists. Whilst much of his music contains vocals – often whispered imperatives – this is a collection of instrumentals, drenched in feeling and recorded over four albums and eight earth years in cities across the UK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe music of \"To Cy \u0026amp; Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1\" contains naturally elegant orchestration wrapped around something visceral and primordial. Swirled inside the 11 pieces are shades of Japanese Min’yo folk, Celtic folk, the Ethio-jazz of saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya and hints of the pan-human ‘ancient music’ that sat underneath Arthur Russell’s melodies on First Thought, Best Thought. The music is filled with space, inspired, he says, by computer games and Japanese animation, particularly Joe Hisaishi’s\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esoundtrack for Studio Ghibli’s Castle In The Sky.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe record combines new compositions alongside bygone instrumentals and understated lullabies that feel like they’ve been picked from between the cracks of civilisation. These songs were collected from albums \"Copernicus,\" \"The Jester,\" and \"Peach\" – under-the-radar records that preceded his critically acclaimed 2019 release The Corner of a Sphere. The new tunes feature Dan ‘Danalogue’ Leavers of The Comet Is Coming and Sarathy Korwar alongside a host of London’s finest musicians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo Cy \u0026amp; Lee… has a suitably individual genesis. DePlume was working for Ordinary Lifestyles, a charity in North Manchester which supports people with disabilities to live in their own homes and to live fulfilling lives. Specifically, he was working with the titular Cy and Lee. His job was to get the guys socialising and he did this by making up songs with them. They’d make up melodies together, humming tunes in the house when they needed something calm, or when they were haring round the city in a battered car. DePlume would record these impromptu sessions in his phone, then go to the studio and use the material as starting points for songs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe also ran music sessions for Cy, Lee and their friends. “People would focus on a central point, tuning in to one another. There are things we can’t put into words, which can be expressed with sound and music. These guys have fewer words than us, some of them have none. When we put some feelings into a music expression – that’s liberation.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s a method he uses in live shows wherever possible, placing himself and the musicians in the round. The aim is to maximise the creative benefits that a community of players and listeners can bring to the music. It’s a collectivist and humanist approach to making music that sits underneath everything he does. This is music made for a reason, and those reasons include – to paraphrase some of the catchphrases he uses both on stage and in conversation – mixing people up, asking everyone to be as much themselves as they possibly can and the hardcore encouragement expressed in his most popular line, shouted back at him by audiences wherever he goes: “You’re doing very well!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePractically, he purposefully brings together players of different skill levels and different backgrounds so they have to interact differently, placing them in unusual situations in which to record. “I wanted to destroy the idea of correct so we were playing it different ways for fun. We had a very magical time playing the tunes”. This is activism expressed through gorgeous music that breaks down barriers by encouraging that most powerful emotion: connectedness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne source of these gorgeous instrumentals is \"Peach,\" an album that later bestowed a name upon legendary monthly sessions he’d run once he’d moved to London. The music was recorded in the middle of the room at Antwerp Mansion, around a big dinner cooked for 60 people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The dinner made the air vibrate in the way it did. We did it a certain way, for fun, getting people to shout out instructions – ‘make it like a hangover!’ ‘Make it like a barrel rolling down the ice!’ And we did it that way. You’ve got people eating and drinking around you and they might shout out anything. You can let go and respond.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe two new pieces were recorded at London’s now-famous Total Refreshment Centre with Danalogue (on piano) Sarathy Korwar (drums), Chestnutt (of Snapped Ankles, on synth), Donna Thompson (voice) and James Howard (guitar). They had a day to record, and DePlume was in post-gig exhaustion. His saxophone was as battered as he was and was failing to play certain notes. “When something is broken or absent or missing, you go around it and that’s what makes it good,” he says. “Then it belongs to that moment. I want to make things that belong to the moment.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDePlume’s politics might be more evident in vocal songs from his live repertoire when he’s reshaping advertising slogans into a call to arms or encouraging activism on “I Was Gonna Fight Fascism,” but his commitment to the cause is as palpable through the instrumentals of Cy \u0026amp; Lee... This is music designed to respond to what Russian revolutionary poet Mayakovsky described as a “social command.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I like the idea that we’re not just doing frivolous decoration. We’re doing work for society. I like to listen for what needs to be said.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Years ago I played a bit of sax in other people’s gigs. I realised I was waiting for someone to give me permission to do my own thing. I noticed that no-one will ever give you permission to do your awesome shit, because they don’t know what it is. It’s impossible for them to give you permission. Who gave me permission to talk to you like this? I gave myself fucking permission.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlabaster DePlume is not doing things properly. Hallelujah.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003eReleased February 28, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"International Anthem","offers":[{"title":"IARC0030 Classic Black Vinyl LP","offer_id":45171119816978,"sku":"IARC0030LP","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"IARC0030 - Winter Hibiscus Colored Vinyl LP","offer_id":52115723714834,"sku":"IA-TCLI-IWHC","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"IARC0030 - CD","offer_id":52115723747602,"sku":"IA-IARC0030CD","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"IARC0030 Digital Download","offer_id":52121291686162,"sku":"IARC0030","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"IARC0030 Test Pressing","offer_id":52115723780370,"sku":"IARC0030LP-1","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0751\/6989\/0578\/files\/a3666438350_16.jpg?v=1773693977"},{"product_id":"gold-by-alabaster-deplume","title":"Alabaster DePlume - GOLD","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003eThe lightning rod for Alabaster DePlume’s luminous follow up to the widely-acclaimed 2020 release To Cy \u0026amp; Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 was personal. “Someone was going through a thing,” says the Mancunian poet-performer. “I said, ‘go forward in the courage of your love’. And then I thought 'yeah, that's what I need to hear as well’.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGold is a sonorous double album that celebrates the communal act of making music and the relationships that can be explored when you purposefully avoid the standard way of doing things.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt contains filmic pieces that oscillate between the otherworldly and the trenchantly grounded, rendered maximally human through the recording process. There is laughter mid-track and studio chatter. There is the music of shouting and applause generated by a handful of people who were listening from the doorframe and the corridor. Complex vocal harmonies circle the songs like small birds and there’s an undercurrent of steely toughness, necessitated by the musician’s engagement with personal vulnerability and collective politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn late summer 2020 Alabaster DePlume (real name Gus Fairbairn) booked two weeks of sessions at the influential Total Refreshment Centre in London, recording to tape with Kristian Craig Robinson (aka Capitol K). He invited a different set of musicians\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eeach day, who would record the same tunes at the same speed so that DePlume – who produced the record – could cut them together later, like ingredients. “They didn’t have enough preparation to be able to hide behind this piece of material or skill,” he says. “They had to look up and respond to each other, and that’s what we've recorded.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere were two rules that were essential to the process: that musicians wouldn’t be given enough time to rehearse and that they wouldn’t listen back to the music they recorded. “The method is part of the mission. It wasn’t like school. We had mayhem. We were having fun. That’s the story and the process – and I want to live that way,” he says.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe singer and percussionist Falle Nioke’s solo on “Again” is an example of the album’s unusual and liberating recording process. The tune was planned as an instrumental but Falle sang out spontaneously, and stilled the room with his arresting contribution. “He was just one voice in the choir but he suddenly sang lead because he felt it,” says DePlume. “It’s one example of what we were able to record,” he says, “because people felt genuinely personally welcome. Their own voices were made welcome. That is what this album is made of and it’s what the best things in our society are made of. We can either make people welcome or we can make them unwelcome; unseen.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the recording, the artist made a map, because frankly he needed a map after recording more than 17 hours of music. The map dictated which bits of each session to pull into the orbit of the record and it was drawn on a long scroll of paper with lines drawn across it, each line representing one analog tape. The triangles, dots and colors – red for fire, pink for beauty and blue for breath – shaped what emerged. The map has since been requisitioned for a gallery exhibition, and a photograph appears on the Gold artwork.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe music that emerged ranges from sparse understated bangers “Fucking Let Them” and the hypnotic pulse of “Visitors XT8B – Oak” to skilfully soothing instrumentals which will feel familiar to the many people who found To Cy \u0026amp; Lee a pandemic panacea (including Bon Iver, who sampled that album’s top track, “Visit Croatia”).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGold opens with the Portuguese-titled “A Gente Acaba” which itself opens with the hum of voices, rich and human. There are gentle strings, gently strummed. The saxophone leaves vibrating trails in the air. “The Sound of My Feet On This Earth Is A Song To Your Spirit” is beauty and breath, generating the kind of deep warmth and connection that requires no lyrical explanation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is circularity. One piece of music arrives and leaves repeatedly, and a phrase is repeated:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have all I need for the glory of being. I recognise you and celebrate. I am brazen, like a baby, like the stupid sun and I go forward in the courage of my love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I’m Good At Not Crying” is a self-accusatory lullaby that lists out the things he excels at (not eating much, not being the bad guy) whilst plaintive and harmonically-rich singers spill and spiral around the low tones of his voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn “People What’s The Difference” he unpicks the selective deafness that surrounds the refugee crisis within a gentle punk-funk frame and towards the end, there’s a lament for the broken earth marked out with plucked strings and harmonies that dip in and out like sharp bells. Softness, in the hands of this Mancunian poet-performer, can be a weapon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The reason for To Cy \u0026amp; Lee was to help people have peace,” he says. “The reason to make Gold is to give people courage and love by putting myself in a situation where I had to bring courage and love. It’s how I made it, it’s what it’s about. It’s what we need next.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the sound of an artist attempting full transparency and maximum relationship. It is also the sound of an artist who has achieved the sound he hoped for. This is the sound of soft power. 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I was enthralled with the idea that imparting any information beyond the music itself was heresy. As if whatever the sound didn't convey needed to be left to the listener. Somehow, I was able to hold this opinion while simultaneously voraciously consuming every record jacket, CD cover, cassette J card and whatever else I could get my hands on regarding any music that interested me. Many years and finally the making of my own album forced me to confront my cognitive dissonance and recognize context can help the audience find their place in the art that they enjoy. That context is especially necessary when the artist is as under-appreciated yet influential as Jeff Parker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen I met Jeff, he was the first adult (24 years old to my 18) whose musical taste was as broad as mine and my friends. He liked Eric Dolphy, De La Soul, ‘70s Miles, and Donny Hathaway. We first played together in the living room of my parents’ apartment. We agreed to each bring a friend to round out a group. He brought the amazing and criminally under-represented Sara P. Smith on trombone, and I brought my high school band mate Chad Taylor on drums. Chad\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand I were certainly outclassed that day, but nevertheless we all became fast friends. A few weeks later, at our regular jam session at the Bop Shop, I told my girlfriend (now wife) to pay attention to Jeff. \"He's going to be important,\" I said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Chicago that Parker had moved to was ripe with young musicians eager to push at the boundaries. There weren't many venues catering to these new attempts at mixing things up, but slowly a number of great bands coalesced out of a group of like-minded friends, mixing everyone's backgrounds whether punk, disco, jazz or whatever. I clearly remember going to see New Horizons Ensemble at the Hothouse with Jeff, then a few weeks later going to the Empty Bottle to see Tortoise. Within months he'd be in both those bands. He was instrumental in forging a link between players with different styles that helped define the sound of creative music in ‘90s Chicago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's a particular thing to hear Jeff play solo. He is an unusually selfless improviser, often times laying out and highlighting the contributions of his band mates. He's never been one to play three notes where none would suffice. On this recording however he is by himself, joined only by his own ideas, looped or frozen, to flesh out the music he's creating in his mind. Hearing him craft entire sound worlds on these eight selections gives us an opportunity to really see how Parker orders sound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe has been ordering sound with an amazingly diverse array of artists and collaborators for the past three decades. While it's common for a professional musician to be versed in many styles, that normally means a succession of genre tropes deployed to ensure the listener knows exactly where they are and what's supposed to be happening. A guitarist, for example, might play a Nile Rogers type rhythm on Disco or Funk, a favorite B.B. King lick on a blues or a Wes Montgomery phrase over a standard. Parker rarely does anything this overt. While perfectly capable (Once, in the studio, at the behest of a musician we were working with, I heard him take a solo that could have been an outtake from a Steely Dan album), he eschews genre playing and chooses a painterly approach to coloring the music, maintaining a deeply personal voice without weighing down the music with obvious stylistic maneuverings. His unique approach fits so well into so many contexts precisely because SOUND is his main focus and concern. One can clearly hear the breadth of Black Music in Parker’s playing. He is part of a continuum of musicians extending back to antiquity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe structures here challenge our preconceptions of background and foreground. ALL the layers are primary. We are presented with fully integrated sonic developments rather than accompaniment, melody, or \"soloing\". Often times a solo album is an excuse for an artist to display their virtuosity. The idea being, possibly, that unencumbered by other musicians, the soloist is free to ride off on flights of fancy. But a career spent in the practice of subtlety is thankfully apparent in every song here. On Forfolks, a standard of the Great American Songbook fits comfortably next to multi-layered improvisations, a Thelonious Monk tune, and several compositions of Parker’s own, dating back twenty-five years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMonk, I find to be an apt comparison. Both men were deeply involved in some of the most progressive musical movements of their respective generations, neither gaining much renown at the time, but both kept on doing things in their own quietly iconoclastic ways until the world caught up with them some twenty years later. 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Aside from recording and touring with Tortoise, Parker has worked as a side man with many jazz greats, including Nonesuch labelmate Joshua Redman on his 2005 Momentum album; as a studio collaborator with other composer-musicians, including Makaya McCraven, Brian Blade, Meshell N’Degeocello, his longtime friend (and Chicago\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eUnderground ensemble co-founder) Rob Mazurek; and as a solo artist. Suite for Max Brown is informally a companion piece to The New Breed, Parker’s 2016 album on International Anthem, which London’s Observer honored as the best jazz album of the year, declaring that “no other musician in the modern era has moved so seamlessly between rock and jazz like Jeff Parker. As guitarist for Chicago post-rock icons Tortoise, he’s taken the group in new and challenging directions that have kept them at the forefront of pop creativity for the last twenty years. As of late, however, Parker has established himself as one of the most formidable solo talents in modern jazz.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough Parker collaborates with a coterie of musicians under the group name The New Breed, theirs is by no means a conventional “band” relationship. Parker is very much a solo artist on Suite for Max Brown. He constructs a digital bed of beats and samples; lays down tracks of his own on guitar, keyboards, bass, percussion, and occasionally voice; then invites his musician friends to play and improvise over his melodies. But unlike a traditional jazz session, Parker doesn’t assemble a full combo in the studio for a day or two of live takes. His accompanists are often working alone with Parker, reacting to what Parker has provided them, and then Parker uses those individual parts to layer and assemble into his final tracks. The process may be relatively solitary and cerebral, but the results feel like in-the-moment jams—warm-hearted, human, alive. Suite for Max Brown brims with personality, boasting the rhythmic flow of hip hop and the soulful swing of jazz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In my own music I’ve always sought to deal with the intersection of improvisation and the digital era of making music, trying to merge these disparate elements into something cohesive,” Parker explains. “I became obsessed maybe ten or fifteen years ago with making music from samples. At first it was more an exercise in learning how to sample and edit audio. I was a big hip-hop fan all my life, but I never delved into the technical aspects of making that music. To keep myself busy, I started to sample music from my own library of recordings, to chop them up, make loops and beats. I would do it in my spare time. I could do it when I was on tour—in the van or on an airplane, at a soundcheck, whenever I had spare time I was working on this stuff. After a while, as you can imagine, I had hours and hours of samples I had made and I hadn’t really done anything with them\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“So I made The New Breed based off these old sample-based compositions and mixed them with improvising,” he continues. “There was a lot of editing, a lot of post-production work that went into that. That’s in a nutshell how I make a lot of my music; it’s a combination of sampling, editing, retriggering audio, and recording it, moving it around and trying to make it into something cohesive—and make it music that someone would enjoy listening to. With Max Brown, it’s evolved. I played a lot of the music myself. It’s me playing as many of the instruments as I could. I engineered most it myself at home or during a residency I did at the Headlands Center for the Arts [in Sausalito, California] about a year ago.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis New Breed band-mates and fellow travelers on Max Brown include pianist-saxophonist Josh Johnson; bassist Paul Bryan, who co-produced and mixed the album with Parker; piccolo trumpet player Rob Mazurek, his frequent duo partner; trumpeter Nate Walcott, a veteran of Conor Oberst’s Bright Eyes; drummers Jamire Williams, Makaya McCraven, and Jay Bellerose, Parker’s Berklee School of Music classmate; cellist Katinka Klejin of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and even his seventeen-year-old daughter Ruby Parker, a student at the Chicago High School of the Arts, who contributes vocals to opening track, “Build A Nest.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRuby’s presence at the start is fitting, since Suite for Max Brown is a kind of family affair: “That’s my mother’s maiden name. Maxine Brown. Everybody calls her Max. I decided to call it Suite for Max Brown. The New Breed became a kind of tribute to my father because he passed away while I was making the album. The New Breed was a clothing store he owned when I was a kid, a store in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where I was born. I thought it would be nice this time to dedicate something to my mom while she’s still here to see it. I wish that my father could have been around to hear the tribute that I made for him. The picture on the cover of Max Brown is of my mom when she was nineteen.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a multi-generational vibe to the music too, as Parker balances his contemporary digital explorations with excursions into older jazz. Along with original compositions, Parker includes “Gnarciss,” an interpretation of Joe Henderson’s “Black Narcissus” and John Coltrane’s “After the Rain” (from his 1963 Impressions album). Parker recalls, “I was drawn to jazz music as a kid. That was the first music that really resonated with me once I got heavily into music. When I was nine or ten years old, I immediately gravitated to jazz because there were so many unexpected things. Jazz led me into improvising, which led me into experimenting in a general way, into an experimental process of making music.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColtrane is a touchstone in Parker’s musical evolution. In fact, Parker recalls, he inadvertently found himself on a new musical path one night about fifteen years ago when he was deejaying at a Chicago bar and playing ‘Trane: “I used to deejay a lot when I lived in Chicago. This was before Serrato and people deejaying with computers. I had two records on two turntables and a mixer. I was spinning records one night and for about ten minutes I was able to perfectly synch up a Nobukazu Takemura record with the first movement of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme and it had this free jazz, abstract jazz thing going on with a sequenced beat underneath. It sounded so good. That’s what I’m trying to do with Max Brown. It’s got a sequenced beat and there are musicians improvising on top or beneath the sequenced drum pattern. That’s what I was going for. Man vs machine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It’s a lot of experimenting, a lot of trial and error,” he admits. “I like to pursue situations that take me outside myself, where the things I come up with are things I didn’t really know I could do. I always look at this process as patchwork quilting. You take this stuff and stitch it together until a tapestry forms.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Michael Hill\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"credits-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003ereleased January 24, 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuild a Nest (feat. Ruby Parker)\u003cbr\u003eJeff Parker - drums, vocals, piano, electric guitar, Korg MS20\u003cbr\u003eRuby Parker - vocals\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eC’mon Now\u003cbr\u003eJeff Parker - sampling, editing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFusion Swirl\u003cbr\u003eJeff Parker - electric guitar, bass guitar, samplers, percussion, vocals\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the Rain\u003cbr\u003ePaul Bryan - bass guitar\u003cbr\u003eJosh Johnson - electric piano\u003cbr\u003eJeff Parker - electric guitar and percussion\u003cbr\u003eJamire Williams - drums\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMetamorphoses\u003cbr\u003eJeff Parker - glockenspiel, sequencer, sampler, Korg MS20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGnarciss\u003cbr\u003ePaul Bryan - bass guitar\u003cbr\u003eJosh Johnson - alto saxophone\u003cbr\u003eKatinka Kleijn - cello\u003cbr\u003eRob Mazurek - piccolo trumpet\u003cbr\u003eMakaya McCraven - drums and sampler\u003cbr\u003eJeff Parker - electric guitar, JP-08, sampler, midi strings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLydian, Etc\u003cbr\u003ePaul Bryan - bass guitar\u003cbr\u003eJeff Parker - electric guitar, pandeiro, midi programming, etc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDel Rio\u003cbr\u003ePaul Bryan - bass guitar\u003cbr\u003eJeff Parker - electric guitar, mbira, sampler, Korg MS20, drums, electric piano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 for L\u003cbr\u003eJay Bellerose - drums and percussion\u003cbr\u003eJeff Parker - electric guitar, Korg MS20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGo Away\u003cbr\u003ePaul Bryan - bass guitar and vocals\u003cbr\u003eMakaya McCraven - drums\u003cbr\u003eJeff Parker - electric guitar, vocals and sampler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMax Brown\u003cbr\u003ePaul Bryan - bass guitar\u003cbr\u003eJosh Johnson - alto saxophone\u003cbr\u003eJeff Parker - guitar, Korg MS20, JP-08\u003cbr\u003eNate Walcott - trumpet\u003cbr\u003eJamire Williams - drums\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll songs composed by Jeff Parker (umjabuglafeesh music, BMI);\u003cbr\u003eexcept “After The Rain” by John Coltrane, and “Gnarciss” which contains elements of “Black Narcissus” by Joe Henderson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“C’mon Now” features samples from the Otis Redding recording “The Happy Song (Dum-Dum).\" Produced under license from Atlantic Recording Corp. 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It was in that sense that we at International Anthem came to work with Parker during the production of Makaya McCraven’s In The Moment, an album which ultimately showcased said essentialness (of Parker’s “side man” sound) on 9 of its 19 tracks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the course of the In The Moment sessions in 2013 and 2014, Parker was slowly transitioning his personal belongings from Chicago to a new home in Los Angeles. It was when finally settled that he found opportunity to re-open some home recordings and beat projects that had been dormant on his hard drive for years (early versions of some could have been heard in the late ‘00s on his Myspace page). Parker had long been in silent study of vinyl sampling and beat conduction, but perhaps it’s no coincidence that new residence in a city aflame with experimental R\u0026amp;B, jazz and\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eelectronic fusers (i.e. L.A., e.g. Brainfeeder, Leaving Records, Low End Theory) spurred him to dig back in to the practice and produce with more purpose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy early 2015 Parker had refined several compositional ideas around his samples, and enlisted local friend Paul Bryan (Aimee Mann, Meshell Ndegeocello) to engineer and play bass guitar in sessions with Chicago ex-pat saxophonist, Thelonious Monk Institute protégé Josh Johnson (Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Esperanza Spaulding)and drummer Jamire Williams (Robert Glasper, Carlos Niño. The recordings were conducted to capture composed passages as well as free playing that used Parker’s beats and sample suites as improvisational criterion. After completing 7 songs with the band, the last of which with vocals from his daughter Ruby Parker recorded in Chicago by John McEntire, Parker named the project The New Breed (after a clothing store his late father Ernie owned and operated in the ‘70s)and finished the album by stitching the band tracks together with intermittent pieces of beat memories from his archive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe final presentation is a retrospective tapestry that explores Parker’s past both musically – as a potent compositional tribute to his influences (J Dilla, Thelonious Monk, Charles Stepney)held together by literal fragments of his life’s work – and patrilineally – as a collaboration with his kin held together by clippings from the family photo album. 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It is also the first new music to be released by Carlos Niño \u0026amp; Friends following the November 2023 release of André 3000’s New Blue Sun – an album which Carlos produced alongside André, while co-writing, co-creating\/playing, and co-mixing every song.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlacenta is announced on April 11th, 2024, a date chosen because it is the 1st solar return of Moss Niño (a new being in human form, who Carlos and his partner Annelise are Earth parents of). Their experience of pregnancy, labor and delivery were all profoundly impactful for Carlos. 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All rights reserved.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oasis,\" \"Camille,\" and \"Happiness\" composed by Ronald Earsell DeVaughn (Bisharra Music).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMade with gratitude, love, respect, and admiration for the great Abdul Wadud.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"license-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"license\" class=\"info license\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"cc-icons commercial\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eall rights reserved\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"International Anthem","offers":[{"title":"IARC0076 Limited Edition Deluxe 2xLP","offer_id":50256419848466,"sku":"IARC0076LPI","price":44.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"IARC0076 Limited Edition Deluxe CD","offer_id":52121240830226,"sku":"IARC0076CDI","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Voices of Bishara Live at ''mu'' Limited Edition Cassette","offer_id":52121240862994,"sku":"IARC0076CS","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"IARC0076 Digital Download","offer_id":52121240895762,"sku":"IARC0076","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"IARC0076 Test Pressing","offer_id":52121240928530,"sku":"IARC0079LP-1","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0751\/6989\/0578\/files\/a1081356019_10.jpg?v=1773342364"},{"product_id":"sml-small-medium-large","title":"SML - Small Medium Large","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003eSML is the quintet of bassist Anna Butterss, synthesist Jeremiah Chiu, saxophonist Josh Johnson, percussionist Booker Stardrum, and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir debut album 'Small Medium Large' began as a collection of long form improvisations recorded during two separate two-night stands at beloved Highland Park, Los Angeles venue ETA. Unfortunately, this major development site for the burgeoning new West Coast jazz \u0026amp; improvised music sound closed its doors permanently at the end of 2023.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe venue, perhaps best known outside of LA for Jeff Parker's 2022 album 'Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy', was the perfect location for the start of SML, especially given that both bassist Anna Butterss and saxophonist Josh Johnson are part of Parker's quartet that held down a regular gig at ETA since the venue's early days (and hence thoroughly documented, heard on Parker's album). 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Throw in a supremely intuitive utilization of polyrhythmic floating patterns (a la Susumu Yokota), and the result is a truly innovative take on time-clocked electronic rhythms augmented with live instrumentation that never loses that elusive human sway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Small Medium Large' is a sublime assemblage of circulatory grooves and textural anomalies, at different moments recalling the synth-laced improvisations of Herbie Hancock's Sextant, the jagged dance punk of Essential Logic, the rhythmic revelry of Fela Kuti, the low-end elasticity of Parliament\/Funkadelic, or the glitchy dub techno of Pole. 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Overdubs by SML (2024).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProduced by Jeremiah Chiu \u0026amp; SML.\u003cbr\u003eMixed by Dave Vettraino \u0026amp; SML.\u003cbr\u003eSequenced by Scott McNiece \u0026amp; SML.\u003cbr\u003eMastered by David Allen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCover art by Miranda Javid.\u003cbr\u003eInsert photos by Brian Guido.\u003cbr\u003eLayout by Jeremiah Chiu.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"license-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"license\" class=\"info license\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"cc-icons commercial\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eall rights reserved\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"International Anthem","offers":[{"title":"IARC0085 Classic Black vinyl LP","offer_id":50256434594066,"sku":"IARC0085LP","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"IARC0085 Limited Edition ''Sedimentary Orange'' Color vinyl","offer_id":52121009324306,"sku":"IARC0085LPI","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"IARC0085 CD","offer_id":52121009357074,"sku":"IARC0085CD","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"IARC0085 Digital Download","offer_id":52121009389842,"sku":"IARC0085","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"IARC0085 Test Pressing","offer_id":52121009422610,"sku":"IARC0085LP-1","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0751\/6989\/0578\/files\/a3892331806_10.jpg?v=1773342295"},{"product_id":"tomin-flores-para-verene-cantos-para-caramina","title":"Tomin - Flores para Verene \/ Cantos para Caramina","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e27-year-old Tomin Perea-Chamblee is a brass- and reed-centered multi-instrumentalist, the composer and arranger of pieces with excellently thorny harmonies, an at-times reluctant musicker and enthusiastic Brooklynite (born and raised, so his admiration primarily concerns the borough’s pre-gentralification qualities), who, by day works as a bioinformatician. If you're in New York, there’s an OK chance that you’ve heard him play before, with young (jazz-adjacent) bands and musicians of some renown. Flores para Verene \/ Cantos para Caramina introduces Tomin as an individual artist to the wider public, and is in many ways a tribute to family and heritage. It’s music grounded in clear purpose and a gravity seemingly beyond his youthfulness, yet coloured with unexpected hues, engaging a newness and hope that lies beyond tradition’s solemnity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTomin has been self-releasing the music compiled on Flores para Verene \/ Cantos para Caramina since 2020. Originally, these pieces were low-key exercises in personal expression, mini markers of intentional beauty. They were also a kind of culmination. 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These versions are miniatures—short-length, layered constructions offering little more than the song’s theme, in lo-fi recordings that embrace the click of the clarinet keys—yet full-hearted in their intimacy. As with all the best sounds, laughter and tears are on equal footing here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the album's Cantos para Caramina (“Songs for Caramina”) side, it’s Tomin’s own originals—dedicated to his older, very much living sister, Caramina—which rise to the fore. Horns are abandoned for the sine-waves of synths and electric keyboards. The longing of remembrance is replaced with the allure of a future yet to happen. The textured air is filled with melodic abstraction reminiscent of Erik Satie or Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, or maybe even Ra at his solo and sanguine. In 2021, as hope came into view, Tomin wanted to honour Caramina by creating something new. And this quartet of (equally) small-scaled compositions dance like a gathering of angels on the head of a pin. 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A 12-movement suite composed, arranged, and inspired in part by dialogue from Edward O. Bland’s 1959 film The Cry of Jazz, the album is a wide-ranging treatise on the African American story from one of its most astute narrators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eItself an incisive critique of racial politics in the USA, The Cry of Jazz draws formal comparisons between the structure of jazz music and the African American experience - as one of freedom and restraint, of joy and suffering - that manifests in the triumph of spirit over the crushing prejudice of daily life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCutting together archive reels from Black neighborhoods in Chicago with live performance footage from Sun Ra and his Arkestra among others, the film remains a radical and prescient evocation of Black pride and its roots in the history of jazz, from spirituals to blues and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs South African writer Nombuso Mathibela captures in the album’s liner notes:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Music is our weapon of struggle]\u003cbr\u003ethat radiantly holds our positive aspiration\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e, group pride and determination as Black people. 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As well as transcribing a piece from the film, Requiem For Jazz also alludes to The Cry of Jazz through contributions from the Sun Ra Arkestra’s Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott on the album’s final movement, which were recorded remotely at the historic Arkestral Institute of Sun Ra in Philadelphia in late 2020.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I want us to have this very wonderful conversation that Ed Bland started over 50 years ago and I want to continue the conversation; because this is a loving conversation that we need to have with each other” - Angel Bat Dawid, Feb 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"credits-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003ereleased March 24, 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRequiem for Jazz Composed, Arranged, Conducted \u0026amp; Mixed by Angel Bat Dawid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eexcept “My Rhapsody,” from the 1959 Ed Bland film “The Cry of Jazz,” composed by Paul Severson \u0026amp; Norman Leist (Glenayre Publishing Co. 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A follow-up to the acclaimed 2020 Mazurek\/ESO release Dimensional Stardust, the album features guitarist Jeff Parker, vocalist Damon Locks, drummer Gerald Cleaver, and pianists Angelica Sanchez and Craig Taborn, among others. It was recorded mostly at the remote Sonic Ranch studios in West Texas, not far from Mazurek’s current home in Marfa, in the days leading up to a debut of the music at Trans Pecos festival in September 2021. Mixing and post-production was headed by Dave Vettraino from IARC studios in Chicago across 2022.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe album’s opener “Future Shaman” was co-produced by Parker and features added percussion by Mazurek’s longtime São Paulo Underground collaborator Mauricio Takara, as well as synth bass from\u003cbr\u003eCathlene Pineda. The track finds Mazurek and ESO where they left off with Dimensional Stardust – deep in a chromatic beat fantasy of outer-space grooves and Bartok-ian riffs. Vocalist\/MC Locks brings the Orson Welles via Deltron 3030 energy while Taborn and Sanchez face-off from behind Wurlitzer pianos and Moog\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esynthesizers. On “Dream Sleeper” Locks’s poetry is swirled in drifting storm clouds of fractured atmospherics, both improvised and composed. “Shape Shifter” finds Mazurek recalling a past life of Isotope 217 – not just for the swinging grooves anchored by Moog basslines, but also in that he returns to the trumpet after years of playing cornet. Once the soaring melodic theme is established the ensemble shifts into On The Corner mode, creating a mangled rhythmic base for Taborn’s Wurlitzer runs and clean guitar soloing from Parker, before shapeshifting yet again under Mazurek’s rising polytonal electronics as Locks’s scattered vocal embellishments take us to the promised land.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe album’s whole B-side is an immersive trip that spans two tracks – “Black River” and “White River” – for which Mazurek interwove takes from the Sonic Ranch sessions with live material from an expanded ESO performance recorded in February 2022 at Sons d’Hiver in Paris, France. In the liner notes for Lightning Dreamers, Mazurek writes that the music is “an evocation of a theme from the “Black River Suite,” which I have been revisiting and reimagining over time.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe elaborates: “I spent 3 years of my life on the great Rio Negro in Manaus, Brazil, where the Black and White Rivers meet. 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The river flows on and on and on.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong the artists featured in the recording from Sons d’Hiver is the late jaimie branch, playing synthesizers \u0026amp; electronics behind the guiding trumpet improvisations of Mazurek (whom she long considered a mentor in multiple mediums). She passed away in August 2022, and her earthly absence has since imbued an otherworldly presence into the chaotic riptide of sound on “Black River.” As production wrapped on the album that Fall, Mazurek was moved to present Lightning Dreamers as a dedication to branch’s memory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"credits-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003ereleased March 31, 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll music composed by Rob Mazurek (OLHO, ASCAP). 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Every time we take a listen, we feel the deep imprint of her all over the music, and we see all of us making it together.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"credits-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003eReleased August 25, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003ejaimie branch – trumpet, voice, keyboard, percussion, happy apple\u003cbr\u003eLester St. Louis – cello, voice, flute, marimba, keyboard\u003cbr\u003eJason Ajemian – double bass, electric bass, voice, marimba\u003cbr\u003eChad Taylor – drums, mbira, timpani, bells, marimba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-with special guests-\u003cbr\u003eNick Broste - trombone (on track 5 \u0026amp; 6)\u003cbr\u003eRob Frye - flute (track 5), bass clarinet (track 5, 6 \u0026amp; 7)\u003cbr\u003eAkenya Seymour - voice (track 5)\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Villarreal - conga and percussion (track 2, 5, 6 \u0026amp; 7)\u003cbr\u003eKuma Dog - voice (track 5)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll compositions by jaimie branch; except \"and kuma walks” composed by jaimie branch, Lester St. Louis, Jason Ajemian \u0026amp; Chad Taylor; and “the mountain” composed by Curt Kirkwood (originally performed by The Meat Puppets as “Comin’ Down”).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE, April 25-29, 2022. 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Additional mixing at International Anthem Studios, August \u0026amp; December 2022.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded by: Dave Vettraino\u003cbr\u003eEdited by: jaimie branch \u0026amp; Dave Vettraino\u003cbr\u003eMixed by: Dave Vettraino \u0026amp; David Allen\u003cbr\u003eMastered by: David Allen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCover Art by: jaimie branch \u0026amp; John Herndon\u003cbr\u003eCover Design by: Damon Locks\u003cbr\u003ePhotography by: Ben Semisch; courtesy of Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts\u003cbr\u003eLiner Notes by: Jason Ajemian, Lester St. Louis, and Chad Taylor; edited by Kate Branch.\u003cbr\u003eLayout \u0026amp; Insert Design by: Craig Hansen\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"license-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"license\" class=\"info license\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"cc-icons commercial\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eall rights reserved\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"International Anthem","offers":[{"title":"IARC0066 Limousine Black vinyl LP","offer_id":50256800743698,"sku":"IARC0066LP","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"IARC0066 Peacock Couture color vinyl LP","offer_id":52121003098386,"sku":"IARC0066LPS","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"IARC0066 CD","offer_id":52121003131154,"sku":"IARC0066CD","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"IARC0066 Digital Download","offer_id":52121003163922,"sku":"IARC0066","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0751\/6989\/0578\/files\/a0938416696_10.jpg?v=1773342206"},{"product_id":"carlos-nino-and-friends-im-just-chillin-on-fire","title":"Carlos Niño \u0026 Friends - (I'm just) Chillin', on Fire","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003eLiner Notes by Marcus J. Moore:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the past few years, concert patrons have stopped the musician Carlos Niño after gigs to ask two simple questions: “Are you a shaman?” “I hear the medicine in your music, can I come to your next ceremony?” The queries are fair enough: Looking at Niño, a tall man with a wild beard and kind eyes, one would think he’s from some faraway time and could maybe cast spells. Once you get to know him, you find that he’s just an incredibly sweet guy with a laid-back demeanor, and that he isn’t some guru claiming to have an all-access pass to the otherworld.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo what does he say to those wondering if he’s a spiritual teacher?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I’m just chillin’, on fire,” he declares. “I'm not rolling with or out any kind of religious or traditional focus, rules or doctrine. I'm just presenting something that has a lot of energy, and is intended to be an opening for those of us who are journeying, creating musically, and for those who gather with us.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndeed, there’s a communal essence to Niño’s self-described Energetic Space Music. As leader of Carlos Niño \u0026amp; Friends, he encourages his collaborators to improvise without preconceived ideas of what the sound is supposed to entail. His new album\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e, (I’m just) Chillin’, on Fire, features more than a dozen musicians and includes a who’s who of sonic experimentation — everyone from guitarist Nate Mercereau and saxophonist Kamasi Washington, to New Age cornerstone Laraaji and hip-hop legend André 3000 playing his now trademark flute. On purpose, Niño lets the music drift and the unity ensue, making (I’m just) Chillin’, on Fire another highlight in a recent run of sublime work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut where albums like 2020’s Chicago Waves (with multi-instrumentalist Miguel Atwood-Ferguson) and last year’s Extra Presence hovered in the speakers, (I’m just) Chillin’ forges ahead in certain spots through energetic drums equally indebted to jazz and electronic funk. It eschews genre, but the tenets of ‘70s underground jazz are present. Fifty years ago, acts like Brother Ah, the Ensemble Al-Salaam and Mtume Umoja Ensemble crafted music that scanned as Spiritual Jazz yet flared in many different directions. They leaned into the transcendence of the music overall, not artificial terms used to market it. (I’m just) Chillin’ emits the same emotion: On “Mighty Stillness,” when the experimental violinist V.C.R proclaims her “ancestral right” to rest, she evokes Black women like Jeanne Lee, Jayne Cortez and Beatrice Parker, innovative vocalists from indie scenes who embodied the same freedom. Then on “Love Dedication (for Annelise),” Niño uses subtle bass (from Michael Alvidrez) and a serene piano loop (from Surya Botofasina) to speak of endearment in broad terms. “Love is unconditional — everywhere, everything, flowing always,” he observes. “Totally alive, no upper limit.” Though he hesitates to embrace comparisons to the spacious arrangements heard on indie labels of the ‘70s like Strata, Strata-East and Tribe (only because of how much he respects their legacies, not wanting to claim any space in their fields), there’s no denying his stature as an anchor in the jazz, hip-hop and beat scenes in Los Angeles over the last nearly 30 years, and how his influences are alive in what he makes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“All of those labels to me are hugely influential,” Niño says. “When I think about Strata-East, I immediately think of Pharaoh Sanders, and I think of one of my favorite albums of all-time, Live at the East (on Impulse!), and how The East and that movement is a huge influence. I'm not from that community. I don't claim any direct connection to it, but my awareness of it and my appreciation of it is gigantic.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe vocals for (I’m just) Chillin’ were compiled unconventionally. “I was like, ‘I'm going to turn on the mic, and you're going to listen all the way through the album and record anything you're feeling at any moment,’” Niño says of the creative process. “It was completely open to their interpretation.” He found that the vocalists Cavana Lee, Maia, Mia Doi Todd, and V.C.R interpreted the music in similar ways: “People who are not even in the same room, who did not hear what the other person did, they all created these really cool weavings — and it was so fun.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile the album compiles live and studio arrangements recorded in places like Venice, Leimert Park and Woodstock over the past three years, it feels harmonious, as if captured in one space with all musicians present. This highlights Niño’s ability as a conductor and producer. That he could winnow such vast experimentation into a seamless set is a worthy feat on its own. Much like Niño’s other LPs, (I’m just) Chillin’ is an immersive listen that requires attentive ears to fully absorb. In a world dominated by social media and the 24-hour news cycle, it seems we’re all in a hurry for no reason in particular. By creating music with tender messages and leisurely pacing, Niño nudges listeners to slow down and appreciate life’s natural wonders, to savor the journey and not rush so quickly to the destination. In turn, his art conjures pastoral images — endless fields, boundless oceans, ripples crashing along the shoreline. It urges you to simply look up: notice the wind rustling through the trees, listen to the birds sing a glorious song. This is real life, the stuff you can’t quite capture with a smartphone camera. As a conduit, Niño embodies the water he cherishes so deeply. He’s not just the bandleader, but a vessel for everyone’s ideas to shine through.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Creativity, to me, is an expression of a being's state, and their states of being,” he says. “It's really reflecting or reporting how they feel. The deeper ‘why’ is what I'm getting to with all this, what is inside that feeling, and it's not uncharted territory. I'm one of these people who's very into organizing, curating and offering; it's a deeply sharing kind of thing. It's a living thing; it grows. Sometimes it gets sculpted. Sometimes it gets rocked by forces outside of its maneuvering. Sometimes it looks one way. Sometimes it looks another way, but it's alive.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"credits-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003ereleased September 15, 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProduced, Mixed, Edited, and Arranged by Carlos Niño.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBells, Chimes, Cymbals, Drums, Field Recordings, Flutes, Gongs, Kalimbas, Keyboards, Leaves, Plants, Rattles, Shakers, Sound Design, Synths, Voice, and Whistles throughout by Carlos Niño.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMastered by David Allen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCover Photo by Annelise.\u003cbr\u003eOn The Cover and Insert: Tile VI (Fall in or Fly Away), Ceramic, by Aparna Sarkar.\u003cbr\u003eArt Direction and Original Elements by Nep Sidhu.\u003cbr\u003eGraphic Design and Layout by Craig Hansen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e01) Venice 100720, Hands In Soil\u003cbr\u003eJamire Williams – Drums\u003cbr\u003eJosh Johnson - Alto Saxophone and Pedals\u003cbr\u003eNate Mercereau - Guitar Synth and Pedals\u003cbr\u003eAndres Renteria – Congas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded Live in The Townhouse Courtyard in Venice, California by Don Hernandez, on Wednesday, October 7, 2020. Congas added in January 2021.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e02) Mighty Stillness\u003cbr\u003eJamire Williams – Drums\u003cbr\u003eJosh Johnson - Alto Saxophone and Pedals\u003cbr\u003eNate Mercereau - Guitar Synth and Pedals\u003cbr\u003eV.C.R – Voice\u003cbr\u003eCavana Lee – Voice\u003cbr\u003eMia Doi Todd – Voice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded Live at The World Stage in Leimert Park, California by Tomoaki Soto on Friday, November 6, 2020. Voices added in December 2022.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e03) Love Dedication (for Annelise)\u003cbr\u003eSurya Botofasina – Piano\u003cbr\u003eMichael Alvidrez – Bass\u003cbr\u003eAnnelise – Voice\u003cbr\u003eCavana Lee – Voice\u003cbr\u003eMaia – Voice\u003cbr\u003eMia Doi Todd – Voice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe basis of this piece was Recorded by Jesse Peterson during the Sessions for Surya's Album Everyone's Children. Bass and Voices added in December 2022.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e04) Flutestargate\u003cbr\u003eDeantoni Parks – Drums\u003cbr\u003eNate Mercereau - Guitar, Guitar Synth and Pedals\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e05) Maha Rose North 102021, Breathwork\u003cbr\u003eLaraaji - Electric Kalimba and Voice\u003cbr\u003ePhotay - Buchla and Drum Machine\u003cbr\u003eLionmilk – Flute\u003cbr\u003eArji - Chimes and iPad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded Live at Maharose North, in Woodstock, New York by Stu Pender on Wednesday, October 20, 2021. Thanks to Luke Simon, Diego Gaeta,\u003cbr\u003eMekala Session, and V.C.R. for their additional Vibes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e06) Transcendental Bounce, Run to it\u003cbr\u003eDeantoni Parks – Drums\u003cbr\u003eThe Growth Eternal – Synth Bass\u003cbr\u003eNate Mercereau – Electric Guitar, Guitar Synth and Effects\u003cbr\u003eSibusile Xaba – Acoustic Guitar\u003cbr\u003eJesse Peterson – Synthesizer(s)\u003cbr\u003eMaia – Voice\u003cbr\u003eCavana Lee – Voice\u003cbr\u003eMia Doi Todd – Voice\u003cbr\u003eV.C.R – Voice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e07) Taaaud\u003cbr\u003eJamael Dean - Piano and Wurlitzer\u003cbr\u003eNate Mercereau - Guitar Synth and Pedals\u003cbr\u003eSibusile Xaba - Voice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContains a Sample of \"Duat\" by Jamael Dean, from his Solo Piano Album Ished Tree, used with permission from the Artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e08) Spacial\u003cbr\u003eJamael Dean – Piano and Wurlitzer\u003cbr\u003eSibusile Xaba – Voice\u003cbr\u003eJesse Peterson – Synthesizer(s)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e09) Am I Dreaming?\u003cbr\u003eDntel - Modular Synthesizer\u003cbr\u003eLuis Pérez Ixoneztli - Aerophones, Drums and Percussion\u003cbr\u003eSurya Botofasina – Keyboards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThanks to Maya Luma for her energy toward this piece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10) Etheric Windsurfing, flips and twirls\u003cbr\u003eAdam Rudolph - Drum Machine, and Gimbre\u003cbr\u003eJesse Peterson – Synthesizers\u003cbr\u003eMaia – Voice\u003cbr\u003eAlakoi Peete – Percussion\u003cbr\u003eSurya Botofasina – Keyboards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11) Boom Bap Spiritual\u003cbr\u003eSurya Botofasina - Keyboards and Piano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on the piece \"Beloved California Temple.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12) Woo, Acknowledgement\u003cbr\u003eMark Ives – Clarinet\u003cbr\u003eNate Mercereau – Zither\u003cbr\u003eSurya Botofasina – Keyboards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis piece originated as the second half of a Remix made for the Woo piece \"Paradise In Pimlico\" (from the Album of the same name, released by Quindi Records). Clive and Mark added to the Remix, then Carlos decided to focus on and develop this part.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13) Sandra’s Willows\u003cbr\u003eAaron Shaw - Tenor Saxophone and Flute\u003cbr\u003eSurya Botofasina – Keyboards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese pieces were recorded by Jesse Peterson at Carlos Niño’s Home Studio, Composed in the moment for a Film Project by Sandra de la Loza. She and her partner William were present in the Studio.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14) One For Derf\u003cbr\u003eAaron Shaw - Tenor Saxophone and Flute\u003cbr\u003eSurya Botofasina – Keyboards\u003cbr\u003eMichael Alvidrez – Bass\u003cbr\u003eMaia – Voice\u003cbr\u003eJamael Dean – Piano\u003cbr\u003ePablo Calogero - Bass Clarinet\u003cbr\u003eAndres Renteria - Hand Drums\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDedicated to The Great Derf Reklaw.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e15) Conversations\u003cbr\u003eAndré 3000 - Flute and Voice\u003cbr\u003eNate Mercereau - Guitar, Sampler and Synthesizers\u003cbr\u003eMaia – Voice\u003cbr\u003eCavana Lee – Voice\u003cbr\u003eMia Doi Todd – Voice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThanks to Recording Engineer Ken Oriole and to Jesse Peterson who can be heard playing Gimbre through Pedals for a few moments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e16) Essence, The Mermaids Call\u003cbr\u003eNate Mercereau - Electric Guitar\u003cbr\u003eClive and Mark Ives - Multi-Instruments and Voices\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCo-Produced by Woo. 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We talked for maybe 5 minutes before he started programming a sound and sequence into the Gleeman Pentaphonic. By the time the engineer showed up, Jeremiah had built several other parts around the Gleeman that weren't synced by any control method but sounded like they were just calling and responding to each other. They plugged the Tascam 388 into the patch bay, and hit record. Jeremiah played with it, and that was it. First piece written and recorded in under an hour. It felt natural, fun and free. And that's pretty much how the rest of the session went. Constant ecstatic motion. It was the funnest non-HipHop session I've ever worked on.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe resulting album – In Electric Time - was recorded in just two days, and edited to completion in the two days following. It was captured fully analog by engineer Ben Lumsdaine, who\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econtributes performances on a few tracks himself. Cooper Crain (of Bitchin Bajas) makes an appearance as well; but ultimately the collection is an intuitive expression of organic electronic music conceptualized and created in-context by Chiu alone, as he calls on a lifetime of work in sound synthesis to paint a fulgent, refreshingly undercut sequence of cinematic sketches and in-process themes. In some ways, In Electric Time reflects the directness of Raymond Scott’s electronic studio recordings — with sharp cuts and room chatter — and, in others, it conjures the in-the-moment magic of Harmonia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the work, Chiu says: “The approach to the improvisations was to embrace the mixer setups at VSM — where a section of synthesizers are all routed to a single mixer\/patchbay — and to start at one end of the studio and work our way around the six different sections. I began with the synths I was most familiar with — or had spent years researching — and was fairly certain I could reign in quickly. When working with vintage gear, there's always a sweet spot where the instrument sings in a unique way. This may be the idiosyncrasies of its filter and how it resonates, the action of the keys, the ability to trigger and use control voltage to sequence, or the unique onboard features. I love finding the moments where a melody or rhythm appears in an unexpected way — at times feeling more like archaeology than sculpture. I was quite improvisatory with the editing as well, often pulling bits from distinctly different sections in dialogue with each other, in order to maintain the raw, spontaneous feeling. I loved hearing moments in the recordings when Ben started or stopped tape, so a take that was running long and beyond its moment would hit directly against a fresh idea.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"credits-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003ereleased September 29, 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImprovised \u0026amp; recorded direct to Tascam 388, without use of MIDI, at the Vintage Synthesizer Museum, Los Angeles, June 29th \u0026amp; 30th, 2023. Edited July 1st \u0026amp; 2nd, 2023.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInstruments used: Elka Synthex, EML Electrocomp 101, EMS Vocoder 2000, Gleeman Pentaphonic, Oberheim 4-Voice, Korg [Mono\/Poly, MS10, MS20, MS50, PS3100, Trident MKII], Maestro Rhythm King, Roland [CR-8000, Juno– 60, Jupiter–6, Jupiter–8, JX–3P, RE–301 Space Echo, RS–505, SH–101, TR–606 (trigs only), TR–808 (trigs only)], Serge Modular I \u0026amp; II,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/synthesizers.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\"\u003eSynthesizers.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eModular, and Yamaha [CS01, CS30, CS70M, CS80].\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll compositions by Jeremiah Chiu;\u003cbr\u003eexcept “Rococco Rondo” by Jeff Cain and Charles Cohen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerformed \u0026amp; Edited by Jeremiah Chiu;\u003cbr\u003ewith additional performances by Ben Lumsdaine (Tracks 2, 4, 10, 11, 12) and Cooper Crain (Track 1).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatch assistance \u0026amp; additional engineering by Lance Hill.\u003cbr\u003eRecorded by Ben Lumsdaine.\u003cbr\u003eMixed by Jeremiah Chiu \u0026amp; Dave Vettraino.\u003cbr\u003eMastered by David Allen.\u003cbr\u003ePhotography by Scott McNiece.\u003cbr\u003eDesign \u0026amp; Layout by Jeremiah Chiu.\u003cbr\u003eProduced by Scott McNiece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThank you Scottie, Lance, Marta, Chicago synth family.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"license-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"license\" class=\"info license\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"cc-icons commercial\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eall rights reserved\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"International Anthem","offers":[{"title":"IARC0074 LP - Classic Black vinyl (2026 Repress)","offer_id":52611445293330,"sku":"IARC0074LPX","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"IARC0074  LP - Classic Black vinyl","offer_id":50256927555858,"sku":"IARC0074LP","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"IARC0074  LP - Limited Edition *Modular Mint* color vinyl","offer_id":52121004540178,"sku":"IARC0074LPI","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"IARC0074 Cassette","offer_id":52121004572946,"sku":"IARC0074CS","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"IARC0074 Digital Download","offer_id":52121004605714,"sku":"IARC0074","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0751\/6989\/0578\/files\/a2752947119_10.jpg?v=1773342160"},{"product_id":"daniel-villarreal-lados-b","title":"Daniel Villarreal - Lados B","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003eOn October 15th and 16th, 2020, drummer Daniel Villarreal was joined by guitarist Jeff Parker and bassist Anna Butterss for two afternoons of recording in the backyard of Chicali Outpost in Los Angeles. For all three musicians, it was the first ensemble recording session they’d done in-person since the pandemic locked the world down just seven months prior. Some choice moments from these sessions made it onto Villarreal’s critically-acclaimed 2022 album Panamá 77, but most of the music remained unreleased.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLados B is a deep dive into the high-level spontaneous music made by Villarreal, Parker, and Butterss across those two days in 2020. Villarreal is heard leading the group through various rhythmic modes and structures for improvisation – flow as informed by the Latin funk of Fania Records as it is by the otherworldly humanity trance of Brain Records – while Parker and Butterss draw on their extensive experience playing free together (as heard on Parker's recently-released Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy, and the LA side of Makaya McCraven's 2018 LP Universal Beings) to build harmonic buoys for their spontaneous melodicism. The result is a beautifully vivid illustration of context, creativity, and collective composition from a particularly rich moment in history.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"credits-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003ereleased October 6, 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Villarreal – drums, percussion\u003cbr\u003eJeff Parker – guitar\u003cbr\u003eAnna Butterss – double bass, electric bass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRhodes piano on “Salute” by Neal Francis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded by Ben Lumsdaine, October 15-16, 2020,\u003cbr\u003eat Chicali Outpost, Los Angeles CA.\u003cbr\u003eAdditional Recording by Dave Vettraino.\u003cbr\u003eMixed by Dave Vettraino and Daniel Villarreal.\u003cbr\u003eMastered by David Allen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProduced by Daniel Villarreal, Dave Vettraino, and Scott McNiece.\u003cbr\u003ePhotos by Carolina Sánchez.\u003cbr\u003eTitles by Natalie Miller.\u003cbr\u003eDesign by Craig Hansen.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"license-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"license\" class=\"info license\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"cc-icons commercial\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eall rights reserved\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"International Anthem","offers":[{"title":"IARC0071 LP - Limited Edition \"Expired Film Orange\" color vinyl","offer_id":52611381330194,"sku":"IARC0071LPX","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"IARC0071 LP - Classic Black vinyl","offer_id":50256957309202,"sku":"IARC0071LP","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"IARC0071 LP - Limited Edition ''Cigar Smoke'' color vinyl","offer_id":52121000673554,"sku":"IARC0071LPI","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"IARC0071 CD - Compact Disc","offer_id":52121000706322,"sku":"IARC0071CD","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"IARC0071 Digital Download","offer_id":52121000739090,"sku":"IARC0071","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0751\/6989\/0578\/files\/a4049990247_10.jpg?v=1773342134"},{"product_id":"bex-burch-there-is-only-love-and-fear","title":"Bex Burch - There is Only Love and Fear","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003eLiner Notes by Emma Warren:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn rare occasions, all the stars align. This is how it was when composer-musician and instrument-maker Bex Burch jumped into her car and drove eight hours across Europe to Utrecht in November 2021. “Mostly life isn’t like that,” she says. “We’re here to figure things out and struggle. But occasionally things just fall into place. Sometimes the world is magical.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe car trip began in Berlin, where she was living after a long stint in London, where she’d made her name in the layers that exist between jazz and improvised experimentalism. The journey ended at Le Guess Who? Festival and an invitation from International Anthem’s Alejandro Ayala. Or perhaps it ended in a ground floor studio in Chicago’s South Side with light streaming through a skylight onto her newly-finished wooden xylophone and a stream of musicians selected by International Anthem’s Scottie McNiece and Dave Vettraino. Or maybe, like a wave travelling across the ocean, the travels continued until Bex Burch finally finished editing thirty-two days of exceptionally tender improvised recording sessions into the forty gossamer minutes of this stunning debut solo record, which oscillates between modes of quiet open-heartedness and powerful\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexpression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is only love and fear is the sound of Bex Burch in communion with some of the finest sonic communicators in International Anthem’s extended family. These include woodwind player Rob Frye, who gave Burch a tour of the Illinois Audubon Society’s Gremel Wildlife Sanctuary the day after she arrived in Chicago. Also Tortoise drummer Dan Bitney and Ben LaMar Gay, who both took Burch through her first few days in the studio, tuning into her communicative harmonics and responding with their own. And double bassist Anna Butterss and violinist Macie Stewart, who participated separately but both became key collaborators in the album’s post-production, accenting their respective string improvisations with additional sounds remotely recorded per Burch’s direction. Everyone on this record is highly skillful, a rare talent, but drawn together by Burch they were invited to inhabit something even more extraordinary: their most open selves, requested only to bring the sounds they liked – or even needed – in the moment of recording.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What has come through in this album,” she says, “is a more domestic style of music: the simplicity of life and sound-making. The word I’m shy to use is ‘feminine’ but it’s true, and I reclaim it in all its power.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe describes her sound as “messy minimalism.” The twelve tracks evoke variously the sweet kind of zoning-in that allows the listener access to their own feelings; the generative meditations of First Thought, Best Thought-era Arthur Russell; Vivaldi or Laurie Anderson – if they’d been ultra-gentle satellite reflections of Chicago’s minimalist and avant-garde music histories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBurch has previously released as part of Boing! with Leafcutter John, and with the critically acclaimed Strut-released Flock with Londoners including Sarathy Korwar and The Comet Is Coming’s Danalogue. She also runs the band and label Vula Viel and has collaborated with artists from Peter Zummo to Dame Evelyn Glennie.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis album also welcomes in the sound of the natural world; ‘hip as fuck’ wood pigeons and resonant nightingales recorded in Berlin parks and forests, dreamy waves lilting onto the sand on the Baltic coast of Rügen Island for the unforgettable closing track ‘When Love Begins’ – and some extreme Chi-Town weather.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There was this ignition moment,” she says of ‘You thought you were free’, the carnival-coloured mid-point of the album. “There was a tornado warning, our phones were all going off: ‘go into the basement’.” The players collectively shrugged their shoulders – until siren sound waves began ghosting through the studio walls. “I turned one of the microphones up to catch the thunder and the rain under the skylight,” she says. “I was properly scared, not just because of the storm, but because I was nervous. I was trying to stay open and be conscious of the fact that I didn’t know what to expect – and that doing so means surrender. That knife edge of presence was really intense. We all just played through.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlaying through was possible, at least in part because of a 90-day practice Burch calls Dawn blessings, which also provided some of the ‘heard sounds’ that dance around the music generated during these collaborative recordings. The practice refers to a friend called Dawn, not daybreak, although at least one of the Dawn blessings that ended up on There is only love and fear was recorded when the sun came up. The Dawn blessings required Burch to make one piece of music daily, in answer to the question: ‘what sounds do I like today?’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“My intention was to cultivate this feeling of expansion and magic that I felt when I was invited to the US. The music is already there, and I have to let go and allow myself to be in it. The 90-day practice was to strengthen that muscle. You know if you do sit ups, you get a six-pack? Perhaps this was exercising my openness six-pack.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe was also exercising her hand-made xylophone. Burch lived in Ghana for three years, including an 18-month apprenticeship in instrument-making, in the Upper West of Ghana with master gyil player Thomas Sekgura. The new instrument isn’t of a particular tradition, indeed the harmonics are tuned to maximise the resonance and was made in collaboration with Jamie Linwood in Stroud, in the south west of England. “The question ‘what sounds do I like today?’ brought up harmonics, and this is the first instrument I’ve made because of what I want to hear. This record happens to be the first that features it.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's quite a christening: a resonant, respectful, super-warm expression of asymmetry, repetitiveness and space. “It’s how the universe works, it’s how we’re all vibrating. We all resonate, literally, with these fundamentals. Tension and release, space, chaos and asymmetry in heard sounds in nature – I love it.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe energy sent into the world when Bex Burch turned the ignition key of her car and drove to Utrecht has finally landed on the beach, in the shape of There is only love and fear. “It’s about choosing to act in love and choosing not to put more force or fear into the world,” she says. “Imagine it like I’m swimming: instead of just leaving a wake of love behind me, I’m pushing it ahead of me, and all around me as well, void of hierarchy, it’s beyond the linear and binary. We can lift people up when we do that.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoak this music up – it will rejuvenate you.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"credits-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003ereleased October 20, 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded for International Anthem at Center for Search \u0026amp; Research (Chicago), Palisade (Chicago), Chicali Outpost (Los Angeles), Bronson Canyon (Los Angeles), Stanglerhof (Italy), Jamie Linwood’s house, and various heard sounds from Yorkshire, The Baltic Sea, Berlin, SüdTirol, Wyoming, Chicago and LA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEngineered by Dave Vettraino*\u003cbr\u003e*except engineered by Adrian Garcia (track 11), Ben Lumsdaine (tracks 4, 9), Dave Vettraino and Jordan Parry (track 7)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMixed by Bex Burch and Dave Vettraino\u003cbr\u003eMastered by David Allen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited \u0026amp; Produced by Bex Burch\u003cbr\u003eExecutive Producers Scott McNiece, Dave Vettraino, David Allen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArtwork \u0026amp; Design by Jeremiah Chiu\u003cbr\u003ePhotos by Bex Burch (front cover) and Chris Almeida (back cover)\u003cbr\u003eObi strip design by Craig Hansen\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"license-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"license\" class=\"info license\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"cc-icons commercial\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eall rights reserved\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"International Anthem","offers":[{"title":"IARC0064 LP - Classic Black Vinyl","offer_id":50256966058258,"sku":"IARC0064LP","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"IARC0064 LP - Limited Edition *Brother Sun* color Vinyl","offer_id":52126832296210,"sku":"IARC0064LPI","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"IARC0064 Digital Download","offer_id":52120999526674,"sku":"IARC0064","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0751\/6989\/0578\/files\/a0040478415_10.jpg?v=1773342106"},{"product_id":"thandi-ntuli-with-carlos-nino-rainbow-revisited","title":"Thandi Ntuli with Carlos Niño - Rainbow Revisited","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003eLiner Notes by Thandi Ntuli:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI travelled to Los Angeles and the USA for the first time in 2019. Although I had not met Carlos in person, we connected via Instagram where he saw a video of me playing a piano motif (titled ‘The One’ in this sequence) that he really liked and expressed a wish to record. This was around 2017. We tried a few times to get me over to Los Angeles, but the timing was always off. Through a performance organised by a creative collective called The Nonsemble at The Ford Theatre we finally got the opportunity to meet, play together and subsequently go into studio to record some improvisations as he guided the recording process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving been aware of some of his work – in particular his collaborative projects as Carlos Niño \u0026amp; Friends, as well as with his friend and long-time collaborator, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson – I knew that, with Carlos as producer, the artistic direction of the album would likely take me to a place I’d never considered going. A fact that had me both curious and terrified (as one tends to be when stepping into the unknown) Lol!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInitially keen to record the song that he had seen\/heard me play on Instagram, our performance a few days before the\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esession drew him to the song Rainbow off my sophomore album, Exiled (2018). On that zen-like California afternoon in Andy Kravitz’s cozy studio in Venice Beach, he encouraged me to play around with various iterations of Rainbow. “Try it this way”, “How about adding that?”, “Can you breathe into the mic?”, “What if you focus on the last section?”, and many other explorations that eventually went through a few cuts, edits, yays and nays to become this body of work. Rainbow Revisited was birthed through that session, another session a couple of days later, and a series of many small synchronicities that led up to that moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA particularly special moment for me was when he invited me to play something from home, which lent itself to me recording a song originally written by my grandfather that we often sing when at family gatherings. The song is called Nomayoyo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo much has happened since that session in late 2019. Many changes in our personal and collective universes. Losses and gains, births and transitions into the next life, Mother Nature’s ever-constant cycles reminding me that through all the chaos there remains, just beneath, this perfect order in Her ebb and flow. And most importantly, reminding me to feel for Her and to listen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe speaks!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf Rainbow in my initial birthing of it, expressed a discontent with what we have accepted as freedom in South Africa and, possibly, around the world, I’d like to think that Rainbow Revisited is some kind of a response. Where the idea of ‘the rainbow nation’, with all the baggage it carried, had hijacked the innocence and mystical nature of a rainbow, I now reclaim its meaning through going back, going inward, healing, and rebuilding with the hope of a less heart-breaking and more fulfilling tomorrow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLihlanzekile!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"credits-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003ereleased November 17, 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThandi Ntuli: Piano, Synthesizer, Tongo, Voice\u003cbr\u003eCarlos Niño: Cymbals, Percussion, Plants\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded by Andy Kravitz at Studio 4 West, Venice Beach, California, August 2019.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdditional Recording by Carlos Niño.\u003cbr\u003eProduced and Mixed by Carlos Niño.\u003cbr\u003eMastered by David Allen and Dave Vettraino.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCover Art by Shabaka Hutchings.\u003cbr\u003ePoem by Thandi Ntuli.\u003cbr\u003eInsert Photo by Thandi Ntuli.\u003cbr\u003eGraphic Design and Layout by Craig Hansen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThandi’s Thank You’s:\u003cbr\u003eMy gratitude to you Carlos for conceiving and believing. For your\u003cbr\u003ehumanity and enthusiasm. All the years that this album was in the\u003cbr\u003emaking, and still so excited about it, if not more-so now. Scottie\u003cbr\u003eand David of International Anthem for your care and unrelenting\u003cbr\u003ebelief in this project. It is an honour to be in partnership with you.\u003cbr\u003eThank you, as well, to Shabaka for your contribution and energy\u003cbr\u003eby means of the artwork. I am so glad we were able to have your\u003cbr\u003evoice included in such a beautiful and fitting way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo Umdali… Always in all ways, I remain committed to Love\u003cbr\u003eand being in service of you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo all those who come before me, in my lineage, in\u003cbr\u003econsciousness, in deeds and musically. And to all those who\u003cbr\u003ehave just arrived and are still to come, who keep us hoping,\u003cbr\u003estriving, and dreaming.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNgiyabonga!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo all who receive this music and complete the circle by giving\u003cbr\u003ethis work meaning, thank you!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd finally, to Graeme… I dedicate my contribution to this\u003cbr\u003ealbum to Dr Graeme Gilfillan who left us just when we\u003cbr\u003econcluded the final details of the album. Like I’d always say to\u003cbr\u003eyou “not all heroes wear capes”. May you be welcomed by a\u003cbr\u003egreat party of all the artists you fought for whilst you walked on\u003cbr\u003ethis earth. There aren’t enough thank you-s for what you have\u003cbr\u003edone for me and how you have empowered me. 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In his work, at his shows, in his collaborations, the Mancunian singer-saxophonist and poet-philosopher poses this to the people around him. What are people looking for? In recent years, the same reply kept coming up: healing, healing, people need healing. But why, and what does it mean to heal, especially in a world where the very idea is often commodified and sold as a luxury? If people were coming to his music for something so mysterious, he ought to figure it out. Maybe he ought to try some healing himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“For a long time, I've always tried to give responsibility for my value to someone else,” DePlume told me on a recent phone call. It seemed he’d become so caught up in the work of forging connections, and thinking about the effects of his work on others, that he’d lost a sense of himself. “I was working on that,” he explained.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis experiment in healing included slowing down, reading, reflecting, and even taking up the practice of jiu-jitsu. DePlume wrote poetry, too, including the book 'Looking for my value: prologue to a blade', seventy pages of verse rooted in its title’s great search, in finding strength of self within a community, alongside\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emeditations on the paradox of the blade. “The blade, that divides, is whole,” he writes in the introduction. “Healing is the forming of a whole, and a whole is singular, more itself, as in more one, as in more alone.” A blade could be used to attack, to shave, to sever, but it could also be used to cut oneself loose—in the process of getting free.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What's the opposite of sleep? It’s trying to sleep,” he told me. “And so what's the opposite of looking for my value? It is knowing my value. It simply is there. My dignity is there. I don't need anyone else to know my dignity, or me, to know it. I know it first. I can't seek it from another. I stand for it.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelections from the poetry book ultimately became the lyrics across half of the tracks on 'A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole', DePlume’s latest full-length work for the reliably great International Anthem label: eleven songs of agency and survival and presence; of confronting life’s pains rather than trying to avoid them; of banishing escapism. In sum, it documents his learning of the fact that dignity and self-determination are prerequisites for becoming whole, which is to say, for healing. If a blade were broken it would not serve its purpose; it must be unbroken, it must be whole, to be of use.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Alabaster DePlume songbook, the celestial ease of his instrumental tracks can sometimes feel like a trojan horse for a voice that is disarmingly honest about the heaviness of existence. Opener “Oh My Actual Days” is true to form in that sense, with DePlume’s tenor sax and Macie Stewart’s ghostly strings playing together like a slow march towards an inner reckoning, one that’s beautiful because it is true. The punchy and contemplative “Thank You My Pain” makes a rhythmic refrain from his titular lyric, inspired by the Vietnamese monk and peace activist Thích Nhất Hạnh, who urged the importance of listening to one’s own pain. “Hello my little pain, I know you are here,” Nhất Hạnh would say. “I am home to take care of you. I do not want to cover you up with consumption anymore.” While writing A Blade, DePlume “watched loads of him on YouTube.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen there’s the gorgeous swell of “Invincibility,” an ode to self-respect that feels a bit like a choir of angels led by a trickster, a group contemplating: how do we live with the forces that seek to destroy us? The whole song feels like a heavy exhale, or like the feeling of reaching the surface after a long while underwater. “If I meet with my feelings, they cannot destroy me,” he told me. “When I allow myself to embody them, physically, then I live through that feeling and I meet with it and I make peace with it and I find that my feeling is me, and I welcome it. It is a sense that I cannot be destroyed by my feeling. I am invincible.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Form a V” is the closest DePlume comes to a monologue, and also his song most indebted to his jiu-jitsu practice. “I’ve only been doing it for the past two or three years,” he told me. “But now I don’t know how you get by without it.” The song takes inspiration from a tradition where a whole dojo will stand in the shape of a V, facing just one lone individual, who is then attacked quickly and repeatedly by each of the others. “The title is a challenge to the world,” DePlume explained. “Go on, form a v—I am ready.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross the first half of the record, when the sax comes in short phrases, it feels like a highlighter over lines in DePlume’s poetry book. Other times, it plays out like an extension of his voice. “Playing the saxophone feels like singing,” he said. A transfixing run of instrumentals on the second half of the record includes “Prayer for My Sovereign Dignity,” an anthem for self-possession. “Believing in yourself feels ridiculous,” he says. “It's ridiculous, but that's what it takes. That's what's required. To stand for yourself is absurd. Let us do the absurd that is standing for ourselves. There is this prayer going on in the background—you can't quite tell what the words are, but it's basically, I'm praying for my sovereign dignity but I don't need to pray for it. It's not going to be given to me. I already have it.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere DePlume’s previous material was drawn from collective sessions, improvisation, and editing, A Blade was tightly composed, arranged and produced by DePlume himself. From there, he brought his compositions to a cast of players and co-arrangers, including Macie Stewart (strings), Donna Thompson (backing vocals), and Momoko Gill (strings and backing vocals), for sessions at the collective arts space Total Refreshment Centre, where he has long been involved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn Gus Fairbairn, DePlume is a man of many past lives. He played “rock band type music” as a teenager, and started playing improvised music around 2008. He is compelled by how improvising allows him to “put faith in others.” He taught himself the saxophone around the time that he became employed as a support worker assisting men with mental disabilities; he once called playing music with them “one of the best breakthroughs for me as an artist.” His debut as Alabaster DePlume came in May 2012, while he was still living in Manchester. He moved to London in 2015 and took up residency at Total Refreshment Centre, where he was encouraged to put on a monthly concert, leading to the series Peach, releasing a namesake album that year, too. His music, from the start, has been imbued with his politics and values; he was maybe arrested once during a protest with the environmental group Extinction Rebellion. His proper international breakthrough came in 2020 with 'To Cy \u0026amp; Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1', after nearly a decade of steadily releasing records.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a phone call in the fall of 2024, we barely speak about any of this though. For at least an hour, we mostly just speak about his recent trip to Palestine, and how could we not? DePlume had traveled to Bethlehem in the spring for a conference hosted by a local Lutheran pastor, before meeting up with musicians from a community arts space, the Wonder Cabinet, and the independent radio station, Radio Alhara. “Palestine is a place where people make records,” he says. “I want to normalize the dignity of that. It's not like, oh, I'm going to make a thing about Palestine. I am just there, and I'm making a thing.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the end of 2024, DePlume prefaced A Blade with a collection of recent works: the poetry book and a three-track EP partially recorded in Bethlehem, and in collaboration with Palestinian musicians. There’s “Honeycomb” and “Cremisan,” both recorded during his “Sounds of Places” residency at Wonder Cabinet; “Cremisan” documents the conclusion of a daylong performance presented by Wonder Cabinet and Radio alHara, June 1, 2024, described as “a cry from the Cremisan Valley (Bethlehem, Palestine) to Rafah (Gaza).” The EP’s final recording, “Gifts of Olive,” references the soul-wrenching poem “If I Must Die” by Refaat Alareer, professor of English literature at the Islamic University in Gaza, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in 2023.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo suggest that dignity is a human right we are all entitled to is to say: by nature of being alive, every human life has worth. Contemplating the very concept of human dignity also raises the daily indignities that are so normalized in a world of suffering. The lack of access to clean water, air, housing, healthcare. Without the basic necessities of life, we cannot know dignity. And how can people know dignity if they are living under a constant state of military attack, if they are living as the target of a genocide?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The album was written before the genocide started, but I had Palestine on my mind all the time,” DePlume explains. “This question of dignity, sovereignty, and the work of healing. It has a relevance in what's being perpetrated there by the Israeli state, and taking responsibility for my place in that. I pay my taxes here in the United Kingdom—I am contributing to, as a white Englishman, the country that brought the Balfour Declaration, that brought the Sykes-Picot Agreement, that supports and enables the colonization and the settler-colonial project in Palestine. It is my issue, and I have a position where I can speak about it.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dignity” has roots in the Latin dignitatem: worthiness. And instilling the plain truth of every human life’s worth has been a recurring commitment in DePlume’s work. “They can’t use us on one another if we don’t forget we’re precious,” he sang in 2022, summing the emotional core of his 2022 album 'GOLD', concerns of shared humanity that play out into the new works as well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We make stories in our lives,” DePlume says. “Oh, I need my story. Oh, something bad happened, and I need to heal upon that. Then I will be healed and all will be good, happily ever after. But no, it is work that needs doing all the time. We all are wounded in our many different ways. And there are degrees of healed, or wounded. Basically, we are either doing one thing or we're doing the other. How do I know I am not destroying myself? I only know that when I am working on healing.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"credits-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003ereleased March 7, 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlabaster DePlume – voice, tenor and baritone sax, acoustic and electric guitar, bass, synths\u003cbr\u003eConrad Singh – electric guitar\u003cbr\u003eDonna Thompson – drums, voice, vocal arrangement for Invincibility\u003cbr\u003eHannah Miller – cello\u003cbr\u003eJohn Ellis – piano\u003cbr\u003eMacie Stewart – violin, string arrangements\u003cbr\u003eMikey Kenney – violin, voice\u003cbr\u003eMomoko Gill – voice, drums, string arrangement for Form a V\u003cbr\u003eRozi Plain – bass\u003cbr\u003eRuth Goller – bass, voice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComposed and Produced by Alabaster DePlume, except Salty Road Dogs Victory Anthem, co-composed with Conrad Singh, Momoko Gill and Rozi Plain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded to analogue tape at Total Refreshment Centre\u003cbr\u003eEngineered \u0026amp; recorded by Kristian Craig Robinson, except Invincibility, Kuzushi and Too True engineered \u0026amp; recorded by Alabaster DePlume\u003cbr\u003eStrings engineered by Dave Vettraino\u003cbr\u003eMixed by Dilip Harris\u003cbr\u003eMastered by David Allen\u003cbr\u003eArtwork by Rebecca Salvadori\u003cbr\u003ePortrait photo by Chris Almeida\u003cbr\u003eDesign \u0026amp; Layout by Aaron Lowell Denton\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"license-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"license\" class=\"info license\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"cc-icons commercial\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eall rights reserved\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"license\" class=\"info license\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"International Anthem","offers":[{"title":"IARC0090 Classic Black vinyl LP","offer_id":51044684333330,"sku":"IARC0090LP","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"IARC0090 Limited Edition ''That Was My Garden'' Color Vinyl LP","offer_id":52115723223314,"sku":"IARC0090LPI","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"IARC0090 CD - Compact disc","offer_id":52115723256082,"sku":"IARC0090CD","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"IARC0090 Digital Download","offer_id":52120998215954,"sku":"IARC0090","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0751\/6989\/0578\/files\/a2823532332_10.jpg?v=1773342050"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.intlanthem.com\/collections\/all-products.oembed?page=3","provider":"International Anthem (US)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}