Music Reviews
Joseph Daley – The Seven Heavenly Virtues The Seven Deadly Sins – (JODA Music) This glorious suite of music is reminiscent of suites composed for the Mass by classical composers like Bach and Mozart but is not tied to any specific doctrine or faith. Meditations and proclamations on the nature of what we do in […]
Marmar tha Midboss interviews members of the anime studio TRIGGER — Hiroyuki Imaishi (director), Hiromi Wakabayashi (producer), Shigeto Koyama (character designer), and Super Log (illustrator). https://staging.kuci.org/podcastfiles/771/Imaishi_%20Wakabayashi.mp3
HIGH ART: These releases are brilliant, thoughtful and uber musical Victor Gould – Thoughts Become Things – (Blue Room Music) Pianist/Composer Gould and a large ensemble including trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and saxophonists Dayna Stephens and Godwin Louis explore his densely textured and brilliantly framed reflections. Laurence Hobgood – Tesseterra – (Ubuntu) Brilliant arrangements of familiar […]
Kitty Kat Fan Club – Dreamy Little You – [Asian Man Records] The Story Changes is a Pop Punk/Indie supergroup from San Jose, CA that features Asian Man Records’ founder Mike Park as well as current and former members of Just Friends, Hard Girls, and Stickup Kid. Their highly anticipated new album entitled Dreamy Little […]
Saver – The First Step In Leaving – [Self-Released] Saver is a Pop Punk/Emo band from Philadelphia, PA. Their highly anticipated debut full length album entitled The First Step In Leaving, which is set to be released on May 9th, is a really awesome and well-crafted record that can be characterized by its upbeat drumming, […]
Adison Evans – Meridian – (AdiTone Music) Baritone sax is implicitly gendered because of its lower register. It also is used more frequently in harmony than as a lead instrument. Well Adison Evans gleefully destroys stereotypes in this funk driven mainstream romp which periodically zig zags across genres from baroque to the blues. With tenor […]
Joe Lovano/Marilyn Crispell/Carmen Castaldi Trio – Tapestry – (ECM) Lovano is among the most revered saxophonists in jazz. Thirty years with Paul Motian after starting with Woody Herman and Mel Lewis, collaborations with maybe jazz’s finest pianist, Hank Jones, master arranger and dean of third stream music (jazz/classical admixture), Gunther Schuller, and avant garde master […]