Mike DiRubbo - Human Spirit - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

On his Criss Cross debut, take-no-prisoners alto saxophonist Mike DiRubbo, a protege of Jackie McLean, explores a compelling program of modernist jazz standards and original music. Pushing the proceedings are a first-call New York rhythm section featuring pianist Mike LeDonne, bassist Dwayne Burno, drummer Joe Farnsworth, as well as firebrand trumpeter Jim Rotondi.

Mike DiRubbo - Jam Session, Vol. 29 [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/30/2010

2012 , the third album from Portland's most wretched, Trees. Following their similarly abject slabs of feedback-doused horror and quasi-formless dirge Lights Bane and Freed of This Flesh, the two-song full-length is a slowly rotting heap of droning, slow-motion death-doom riffs decomposing into clouds of black amplifier hum, shrieking voices and tortured screams drifting against the glacial roar of smoking amp stacks and short-circuiting hardware. This time around, the band drops some of their most leaden, majestic riffs yet into a slow-motion filth-storm. Massive, saurian doom rhythms slip way out of the confines of anything resembling a groove, deep into rumbling fields of charred, ritualistic chanting and Abruptum-like states of psychotic noise.