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Chicagoan Nick Mazzarella plays alto sax with the kind of virile swagger that yanks you back through the decades to when this kind of strident, unsentimental sound split the whole goddamn twentieth century clean in two. It’s still surprisingly subversive to modern ears—which is why a lot of peop
Release day words from Robert Rodi in Chicago rag, New City. Ultraviolet is out everywhere today, friends.
Week Three of our July curatorial residency at Comfort Station featured Chicago experimentalists Coppice. Here’s a snip.
Read it and weep !
Rob Jacobs - “Unknown Hand” official video shot and cut by Julia Dratel.
Rob Mazurek "Alternate Moon Cycles" [12"]
International Anthem IARC0001
Centering, single-note cornet chant sublimated to supernatural frequencies by trio combination in intimate confines. Rob Mazurek is accompanied by Matt Lux on electric bass and Mikel Patrick Avery on organ.
Deluxe RTI vinyl pressing packaged in heavyweight matte jacket, with IARC obi strip and 3D dome pattern inner sleeve designed by Craig Hansen. Insert includes liner notes by Joe Darling and photos by Kari Skaflen. Front and back cover art is high-resolution print of white-on-white over-graphite paintings made by Mazurek himself.
Listen and purchase vinyl here
this album is therapy
TRAPPED SETS (drummers in the trouble maze) Thalia Hall, Saturday May 16 2015
Very last minute, yes, but very exciting to announce that International Anthem is curating 1 night (Saturday May 16th 2015) of the You Are Here Festival (aka the Trouble Maze)!
The Festival takes place in New York City approximately once every two years. Between NYC installs the festival travels to other locations in America and around the world. Recently, the You Are Here Festival appeared in Berlin, and this May Empty Bottle Presents is bringing the festival to Chicago for the first time.
Over three weekends, events take place in a life size maze installation in the garage space behind a new piano bar on the ground level of Thalia Hall in Pilsen. Trouble (Laura Paris, Lawrence Mesich, and Sam Hillmer of the band Zs – the group responsible for You Are Here) designs and builds an actual maze into a gallery space accompanied by light, projections, sound, sculpture, and a myriad of performance and time-based arts events.
We curated our night around drums and drummers - hence are calling the thing “Trapped Sets.” IARC recording artist Makaya McCraven headlines, doing a rare solo drums/sampler performance, preceded by a new duo featuring taiko drumming maestro Tatsu Aoki & cellist Tomeka Reid, Zelienople drummer Mike Weis’s trio with violinist Leo Park & saxophonist Brian Harding, and an opening solo performance by Califone/Iron & Wine drummer Joe Adamik, who will be reprising the amazing percussion/woodwind/electronic sample-weaving set we heard from him at Bar DeVille a little over a year ago.
Please join us for a psychedelic night of drummers in the trouble maze - Saturday May 16th from 9pm till midnight. $9 cover, 21 and over.
Tickets available via Empty Bottle website.
Go gnawa with brothers Henry and Olly Keen who just released a new Electric Jalaba LP with master Moroccan musician Simo Lagnawi. Plus, Ta-ku teams up with Sango and JMSN, Todd Terje remixes Jaga Jazzist, and we air new tunes from Archie Pelago, Sóley and Wild Yaks, and an essential oldie from Matmos.
In what seems to be an a wholly inexplicable coincidence, Makaya McCraven's "Gnawa" is featured in a new Bandcamp Weekly show headlined by the sick new Moroccan gnawa-electronic composite Electric Jalaba LP. Dope wavelengths by Andrew Jervis.
Over the last few years, drummer Makaya McCraven has been one of the most in-demand cats on Chicago’s jazz and improvised music scene. But beyond lending his talents to other people’s gigs and albums...
Makaya McCraven on WBEZ 91.5 (NPR Chicago) Morning Shift with Tony Sarabia 4/23/15.
Rob Mazurek "Alternate Moon Cycles" [12"]
International Anthem IARC0001
Centering, single-note cornet chant sublimated to supernatural frequencies by trio combination in intimate confines. Rob Mazurek is accompanied by Matt Lux on electric bass and Mikel Patrick Avery on organ.
Deluxe RTI vinyl pressing packaged in heavyweight matte jacket, with IARC obi strip and 3D dome pattern inner sleeve designed by Craig Hansen. Insert includes liner notes by Joe Darling and photos by Kari Skaflen. Front and back cover art is high-resolution print of white-on-white over-graphite paintings made by Mazurek himself.
Listen and purchase vinyl here
Rob Mazurek
Rob Mazurek / Alternate Moon Cycles // International Anthem Recordings Co., 2014
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Currently listening to Back To Niceness 04/04/15 (Makaya McCraven, Dj Oil, Fatima, The Roots, Lapalux, Flako, etc) by Strictly Niceness on Mixcloud
Strictly Niceness drops “Lonely” from Makaya McCraven’s In The Moment, just before “Aquaboogie” by P-Funk in dope mixcloud set “Back to Niceness.”
solar. lunar. soulful bittersweet 16th selection on soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/cacaochaosisfat/sets/bittersweet-16th-selection
Sixteenth quick & cloudy selection dedicated to soul music, jazzy and laid back grooves, beats, rhythm'n'blues, future funk, hip-hop, jazz, indie, house music, fusion & nowadays deep & soulful sound. more sweet, than bitter. slow, easy, vibrant, sometimes uptempo but always groovy, all colored. listen to this or dance, just let the music take your soul.
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This selection includes lot of music, released on soundcloud.com only. Young and gifted & also well known musicians such as Joe Claussell, Bonobo, Erykah Badu, Marc Cary, SoulAGENDA, Tantra Zawadi, Klaus Layer, Potatohead People, Sorceress, Stacy Epps, FNKD, Ian Ewing, Captain Supernova, Makaya McCraven, Akasha, BMB Spacekid, Kazumi Kaneda, Columbia Nights, John Robinson, Chief, wallah umoja, LoVeMuscLe, aso, Diverse, Farnell Newton, Jarrod Lawson, Tony Ozier, Mental Abstrato, Saara Maria, HYLA, DJ Tipz, Kholi, Ojibve, Jordana de Lovely, HVL & other.
selected by cacao chaos is FAT @cacaochaosisfat artwork mkscoo aka scoombrija www.behance.net/scoombrija
more bittersweet music here: mixcloud.com/360a/playlists/bittersweet-funk/
mixcloud.com/360a/playlists/bittersweet-jazz/
www.mixcloud.com/360a/playlists/shades-of-blue/
if you like this one, you can also check previous parts of Bittersweet on soundcloud: soundcloud.com/cacaochaosisfat/sets
Dope soundcloud mix by Bittersweet drops all 13 minutes of “First Thing First” from Makaya McCraven’s In The Moment.
“Great new label from Chicago ----- @intlanthem”
More IARC hype from Gilles Peterson. Love that man.
20150206-a2t El señor McCraven es conocido en los círculos del jazz de Chicago por su trabajo como batería con gente como Archie Shepp, Yusef Lateef,
Guest post courtesy of CUERATORS (Chicago / Seattle) Over the course of one year, drummer Makaya McCraven played 28 improvisational shows at one venue with incredibly talented collaborators. He called this night, “Spontaneous Composition”. In The Moment, Makaya’s debut LP, is the result of that year. The concept was to ...
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Great feature and interview with Makaya McCraven on Nara is Near.
