Beth Orton - Weather Alive - VINYL LP

A genre-defying supernova of electronics, metal, folk and jazz, Bad Luck's InchFourInch Inchbears down on you like a cyclone of fireInch (The Stranger). The duo of saxophonist/electronics player Neil Welch and drummer Chris Icasiano met a decade ago while in college and built a friendship as they discovered free improvisation together. The epic long-form compositions from their previous 3 albums celebrated the tradition of the free jazz legends, while InchFourInch condenses that epic energy into shorter rhythmic forms. Welch screams and breathes into his horn, acoustically creates chords, and uses electronics more familiar to guitar players, while Icasiano produces sounds and structures that can seem impossible. InchBad Luck chop up time and space into jagged, unpredictable shapes, but sometimes they hit upon a quasi-funk groove that sounds like an asymmetrical avalanche. Most of the time, you have no idea where they're going, but they impel you to follow closely, no matter what.Inch - The Stranger.

Vinyl LP pressing. 2020 . Eternity Bay is the second album from Californian duo The Saxophones, following 2018's Songs of The Saxophones. Recorded by Cameron Spies. Mixed by Noah Georgeson (Joanna Newsom, Devandra Bernhart). The band is made up of singer-songwriter Alexi Erenkov and his wife Alison on percussion. Musically, Eternity Bay appears relatively uncomplicated, but the influence of jazz is never far away. The result is a carefully planted landscape of woodwind, guitar and vocals.

As Incharresting a figure in contemporary classical and experimental new music as he is in jazz (New York Times),Inch and a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2017, Tyshawn Sorey has carved out his own territory as a musician and composer whose range of vision, emotion and visceral power is a driving and defining force behind a young Black vanguard in new music. This pristinely recorded double-album collaboration with the vaunted chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound documents two unique works - the stately, still For George Lewis (dedicated to the legendary avant garde trombonist and composer) and the cinematic, sweeping Autoschediasms (inspired by the real-time improvisational InchconductionsInch of Butch Morris, with a special nod to Anthony Braxton's Inchlanguage musicInch system). Taken together, these performances - part of which were recorded in a video chat during the pandemic - find the composer testing the limits of the ensemble's imagination and concentration, and paint a wide-angle sonic canvas that is by turns taut, trenchant, and profoundly moving.