Edsel Gomez - Road to Udaipur - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Art Pepper - Roadgame [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/21/1993

Led by drummer Jose Medeles (Breeders, 1939 Ensemble, Revival Drum Shop), Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems is a drummer's tribute to guitarist and DIY iconoclast John Fahey. Joined for a series of guitar and drum duets with M. Ward, experimental guitarist Marisa Anderson, and Chris Funk (Decemberists, Stephen Malkmus), it's a genuinely honorific project, featuring not Fahey compositions, but rather a series of improvised rendezvous inspired and informed by his looseness and rhythmic idiosyncrasies. Recording in the comfortable setting of Bocce Recording in Vancouver, WA, in 2020, these duets are playful and spiritually deep, presented with snapshot clarity Medeles likens to the recordings of Alan Lomax or Chris Strachwitz, Inchwho boldly captured field recording of Southern chain gangs and juke joint raconteurs decades ago. The result here is similar pure and honest recordings.InchPLEASE SEND TO J.F. with Marisa AndersonRICHNESS OF PEACE with M. WardGOLDEN with Chris FunkTHE PAPER SNAKE with Marisa AndersonSOMETHING ELSE with M. WardBEFORE & AFTER with Marisa AndersonJUXTAPOSITION with Chris FunkMID THE ICE & SNOW with Marisa Anderson ILLUMINATION with Chris FunkTAKOMA with Marisa AndersonVOICE OF THE TURTLE with Chris Funk

It has been three years since Gonzalo Rubalcaba's last , SUPERNOVA. Artists usually don't risk remaining out of the limelight for so long, but Rubalcaba is no ordinary jazz musician, and the inspired performances on PASEO, his latest as a leader for Blue Note, prove that the wait has ben well worth it.