Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Pianist Pat Thomas, alto saxophonist Seymour Wright, double bassist Joel Grip and drummer Antonin Gerbal are أحمد [Ahmed]. Together, they’ve

It says something about Jeff Parker’s estimation of the value of the ETA IVtet that Happy Today was made at

Across 40-odd years and a span of musical methodologies, Peter Stapleton made things happen. The musician, lyricist, festival organizer and

To say that history looms over Horror is just another way of saying that it’s a Mekons record. The globally

On ITERAE, American musician/engineer Joseph Branciforte and Belgian Fender Rhodes player Jozef Dumoulin operate in the spaces in between. Each

Nicolas Leirtrø’s debut LP has been a while coming, and its precise nature could not have been predicted. The Trondheim, Norway-based

Chicago’s the Arrivals—well, singer/guitarist Isaac Thotz now lives in L.A., while fellow singer/guitarist Little Dave Merriman, bassist Paddy Costello and

Self-titled albums tend to have an air of self-declaration about them: “This is who we are.” In the case of

Canadian guitarist Ayal Senior appears to have found a second home in Tokyo. It might seem a curious destination, since

In April 2023, REDCAT, a Los Angeles exhibit/performance space that’s part of CalArts, hosted Pulse Meridian Foliation. It was an

“Did we really?” This album’s title implies disbelief, but if the questions is, “Did these folks pull off a successful