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Beautiful 3 LP box set documenting a legendary moment of free improvisation recorded in June 1991. The music is wild, intense, and unrestrained. It's a spiritual hurricane of expression not for casual listening. Liner notes are nice a compliment as are the included prints. Cool note included is that Thurston Moore commented on this show that he couldn't attend because he was out of town and felt like he had missed the "second coming".
https://milfordgraves-blackeditionsarchive.bandcamp.com/album/webo
Tomasz Stańko Quintet - Wooden Music Vols I & II
This period of Tomasz Stańko's career has been been my main lifeblood of inspiration the past month. His Quintet tows that ecstatic line where it feels like everything is about to fall into complete chaos but the group manages to orbit around some magic thread that keeps it all together. This is free jazz without a doubt, but there's no dogmatic disavowal of tonality, structure, and subtlety. Softness and beauty are not adjectives well acquainted with free jazz, but the Quintet embraces Eirene as much as they do Eris. Vol I comes with a lovely 16 page book and Vol II with a nice poster sized print of the album cover.
https://tomaszstanko.bandcamp.com/album/wooden-music-i
Akira Sakata - 赤とんぼ（AKA TOMBO)
Akira Sakata plays with absolute confidence and unrestrained soul on this set. It would be a stretch to label this free jazz; you will hear some of the lighting fast runs, squeaking and skwanking characteristic of the genre, those bits are sparse. However, though the material is almost entirely tonal, it feels untethered and free in a way that warrants the label. Deeply spiritual, this album is a meditation on beauty, "ferocious and gentle". The title track 赤とんぼ (translated is red dragonfly) and the closing interpretation of Dvorak's Going Home are absolutely stunning and leave an immediate stamp upon the brain to hush up and listen to your soul dummy! The pastoral Tsonmbon Tuuraitai Kheren is another highlight. And while the remaining material isn't quite as captivating, the playing is consistently inspired and unwavering throughout.
https://akirasakata1.bandcamp.com/album/aka-tombo
Stella Kola - Stella Kola
Great brit-folk revival stuff from this western Mass outfit. Dreamy and pleasant, no complaints!
https://stellakola.bandcamp.com/album/stella-kola
Jake Xerxes Fussell - When I'm Called
Jake Xerxes Fussell doing that Jake Xerxes Fussell thing, what more could you ask for? Laid back, downbeat, reflective North Carolina folk grooves. Got summer written all over it.
https://www.musicglue.com/jake-xerxes-fussell/products/when-im-called-lp
Jake Xerxes Fussell doing that Jake Xerxes Fussell thing, what more could you ask for? Laid back, downbeat, reflective North Carolina folk grooves. Got summer written all over it.
https://www.musicglue.com/jake-xerxes-fussell/products/when-im-called-lp