Laura Nyro - Angel in the Dark - VINYL LP

Corrette / Ensemble Meridiana - Les Voyages De L'amour [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/24/2016

Mercury nominated trumpet player and composer Laura Jurd releases second solo album Rites & Revelations. Heavily influenced by folk music and pulled toward Celtic traditional music, Laura draws on her English and Scottish roots and is blessed with the collaborative powers of Martin Green & Ultan O'Brien. The album culminates a journey of exploration for Laura, rich with renaissance song, earthy drones, lilting jigs and highly ornamented ballads, Rites & Revelations is a personal renaissance.

Composer, clarinetist, singer & spiritual jazz soothsayer Angel Bat Dawid descended on Chicago's jazz & improvised music scene just a couple years ago. In very short time, the potency, prowess, spirit & charisma of her cosmic musical proselytizing has taken her from relatively unknown improviser to borderline ubiquitous performer in Chicago's avant-garde. On any given night you can find Angel adding aura to ensembles led by Ben LaMar Gay, or Damon Locks, or Jaimie Branch, or Matthew Lux, or even, on a Summer night in 2018, onstage doing a woodwind duo with Roscoe Mitchell. For her recorded debut on International Anthem, The Oracle, we've chosen to a batch of tracks that Angel created entirely alone - performing, overdubbing & mixing all instruments & voices by her self - recorded using only her cell phone in various locations, from London UK to Cape Town RSA, but primarily from her residency in the attic of the historic Radcliffe Hunter mansion in Bronzeville, Southside, Chicago.1 Destination (Dr. Yusef Lateef)2 Black Family3 What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black (Dr. Margaret Burroughs)4 Impepho5 We Are Starzz6 London7 Capetown (feat. Asher Simiso Gamedze)8 The Oracle