Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
Fantastic, just fantastic. Piano (mainly) and Trumpet duets. New(-ish) guard and old guard making what could have been a bit cold or self-consciously avant-garde into something deep and human.
I'm going to be playing this a lot over the coming weeks.
I have their Drunk With Passion album lurking somewhere, on LP. Made me think of School Of Fish...
Somehow School of Fish just swam by me back in the day (see what I did there?), but I can see the similarity.
Enjoyed that one. Odd coincidence too... The opening track on the first album from Dreamfish, the "squeaky, burbly, sequency, ambienty thing" of a few posts back, was called "School of Fish"... It's possibly my favourite "squeaky, burbly, sequency, ambienty thing" ever. Love meditating to it. The lovely deep bass that kicks in at around 13:20 is beautiful.
I like this a lot (listening on Spotify, so it looks like a purchase), with Mark Helias (bass) and Bobby Previte (drums) playing fantastically. This is actually the first time I've listened to Bloom, and I'm impressed. Perhaps a bit like Steve Lacy, but warmer and less dry/intellectual, I'd say.
I love these kind of trios. Leaving out the piano often seems to free up sax players to do their best and most interesting work.
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Brilliantly orchestrated mayhem.
Revenge of the Goldfish streaming now
Odd coincidence too...
The opening track on the first album from Dreamfish, the "squeaky, burbly, sequency, ambienty thing" of a few posts back, was called "School of Fish"... It's possibly my favourite "squeaky, burbly, sequency, ambienty thing" ever. Love meditating to it. The lovely deep bass that kicks in at around 13:20 is beautiful.
No. You just have taste :-)
The Herbaliser " Mission Improbable"
Tom Russell "Stealing Electricity"
Earl Zinger "Escape from Ibiza"