#Avreeayl Ra

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2023-05-15 FRI FORM #85: Nick Mazzarella / Ingebrigt Håker Flaten / Avreeayl Ra - Moskus Bar

[noloveforned]

i didn't do the show live on wlur this week, but i did record a new show that'll air next friday along with (hopefully) another new show. in the meantime, you can stream last week's show on mixcloud.

no love for ned on wlur – june 14th, 2024 from 8-10pm

artist // track // album // label smog // our anniversary // supper // drag city quivers // apparition // oyster cuts // merge sonic youth // schizophrenia // sister // sst marguerite // ground // larger now cassette // pleasure tapes pennikurvers // halo // daredevil 7" // dieselhead rearranged face // tales of nero // far green arcade // tomothy puncture // mucky pup // mucky pup 7" // small wonder scrawl // breaker, breaker // he's drunk // rough trade jarrow // kelp // expensive hugs // barely dressed what kind of human have i become // autobiographical // avoiding the diggy diggy dogs 7" ep // soft abuse lenny kaye and friends featuring kelly reidy // what a way to die // a 50th anniversary celebration of nuggets- live at the cat's cradle // rick's ramona and the holy smokes // i love smoking // i love smoking digital single // (self-released) james toth // a month of sundays // septdembos ep // (self-released) kristin hersh // me and my charms (string version) // strings ep // 4ad matthew de gennaro // wasn't it you? // fireflies // soft abuse little wings // green grass of spring // high on the glade // perpetual doom joyce // pesadelo // passarinho urbano // continental rahsaan roland kirk // the days of wine and roses // live at ronnie scott's, 1963 // gearbox malcolm jiyane tree-o // i play what i like // true story // new soil fred jackson jr., ishmael ali, bill harris and avreeayl ra // inner dialog // double helix quartet // amalgam ibelisse guardia ferragutti and frank rosaly // destejer // mestizx // international anthem demahjiae // akimbo // jesus take the wheel ep // (self-released) yungmorpheus // nu directions // black schemata // tuff kong blu and evidence // lost angel // lost angel 7" // bigger picture tanya morgan featuring che grand, elucid, jermiside and spec boogie // never 2ndary // brooklynati // hipnott liberation // too close for comfort // w3ng compilation // numero group the ballet // i’m on drugs // daddy issues // fika erlend øye and la comitiva // paradiso // la comitiva // bubbles the spatulas // suzie girl // beehive mind // post present medium vibralux // junk // cowtown volume two compilation 7" ep // anyway ryann gonsalves // burrowing // ouch! cassette // dandy boy the icypoles // tararara // my world was made for you // lost and lonesome

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Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly — Mestizx (Nonesuch/Intl Anthem)

Two musicians with Latin roots but primarily Western musical training and experience dig into a multicultural heritage, incorporating indigenous rhythms, instruments and sounds into intricate space-age explorations of history, myth and personal authenticity.

The two musicians in question are Frank Rosaly, a well-regarded free jazz drummer whose exploits have been frequently chronicled here at Dusted. Jazz fans may associate him primarily with a thriving Chicago scene, but he has Puerto Rican heritage and now lives in Amsterdam. His wife Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti is a singer and multimedia artist, classical trained but born in Bolivia. This is their first collaborative album, a careful excavation of the sounds and musical traditions of their respective Latin cultures, a reclamation, of sorts, of influences that neither artist feels fully able to claim as his or her own.

Authenticity, is, of course, a tricky concept. Ferragutti freely admits that growing up in Bolivia doesn’t necessarily entitle her to ownership of indigenous culture, while Rosaly, in the liners, admits to experiencing Puerto Rican culture largely as an outsider. Mestizx (a non-gendered term for people of mixed heritage) is as much about being estranged from one’s history as it is about participating in it.  

So there is joy but also a sense of longing in these multi-rhythmed, intricatedly constructed cuts. The beats are insistent, celebratory, all-enveloping, and yet you glimpse them as through a window. Elements may come from isolated rainforest tribes—the two enlisted Fredy Velásquez a scholar and performance artist with expertise in Colombian indigenous rites as a collaborator—but they are viewed through the whole of the western tradition: jazz, rock and classical. The gorgeous “Saber do Mar” flickers like a hallucination, threads of drone winding through intricate structures of malleted percussion; it feels both real and imaginary, a place visited in febrile dreams.

These songs are sung mostly in Spanish, with occasional diversions into other dialects. The titles indicate political engagement (“Balada Para La Corporatocracia” translates as “ballad for corporatocracy,” “Destejer” as “to unravel.”) yet the music is anything but didactic. It seethes and undulates with an easy fluidity, Ferragutti’s serene vocals cresting over the synchronized clatter of percussive instruments made of metal, wood and skin. Other artists, mostly from Chicago, drop by to play. Ben LaMar Gay, Bill MacKay, Rob Frye, Mikel Patrick Avery and Avreeayl Ra all make appearances.

All of which coalesces in some genuine sonic pleasures. “Turbulência” barrels down a groove like a freight train, the shush and pop of samba rhythms clattering amid grinding bass and the trebly sparkle of keyboards. “Writing with Knots” pounds a two-toned cadence, shakers and fluttery melody at play, the thread of dissolution always looming. This one, in English, recounts the terrible history of colonialism, but also points towards the future. Like the Meztizx project writ large, It sends tendrils back into the past in order to plot a better way forward.  

Jennifer Kelly

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AZZY Presents MONDAYS Ari Brown. Quartet Kirk Brown, Keys * Yosef Ben Israel, Bass Avreeayl Ra, Drums with Special Guest YVONNE GAGE March 6, 2023. #jazzmondays (at Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpeAzIkNVh0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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JazzX5#355. Dave Rempis - Avreeayl Ra: "Fire And Ash" [Bennu (Aerophonic Records, 2021)] [Minipodcast de jazz] Por Pachi Tapiz

JazzX5#355. Dave Rempis – Avreeayl Ra: “Fire And Ash” [Bennu (Aerophonic Records, 2021)] [Minipodcast de jazz] Por Pachi Tapiz

“Fire and Ash” Dave Rempis – Avreeayl Ra: Bennu (Aerophonic Records, 2021) El tema es una creación de Rempis y Ra. © Pachi Tapiz, 2021 Más información acerca de Dave Rempis y Aerophonic Records https://aerophonicrecords.com/ https://www.tomajazz.com/web/?s=dave+rempis&submit=Search Más información sobre JazzX5 JazzX5 es un minipodcast de HDO de la Factoría Tomajazz presentado, editado y producido…

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Nicole Mitchell & Lisa E. Harris - Mitchell returns to the works of Octavia E. Butler, this time the Parables, released on Butler’s birthday (FPE Records)

The work of award-winning African American science fiction author Octavia E. Butler becomes increasingly prophetic as we move through the challenges of the new century. Her novels Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1996) use fiction to illuminate a horrific unraveling of 21st-century America into a despotic chaos where its once-middle-class citizens struggle to survive in an incredibly violent and fragmented reality, void of normalcy, family, and resources. In the 1990s, Butler's Parables warned readers about a possible disintegration of American culture and infrastructure, among the many risks of tyrannical rule. Within Butler's storyline, the character Lauren Oya Olamina, a preacher's daughter of African heritage, helps to rebuild her community through offering Earthseed, an egalitarian philosophy and spiritual practice which honors inquiry, independent thinking, and realistic acceptance of constant change. Inspired by and in tribute to Octavia E. Butler, composers Nicole M. Mitchell and Lisa E. Harris have created their own sonic EarthSeed, also in response to the real chaos and horrific nature of our times. EarthSeed is the third of Mitchell's projects inspired by the literature of Butler and marks a first compositional collaboration between Harris and Mitchell. Mitchell's two previous recorded Butler-inspired works are Xenogenesis Suite (Firehouse 12) and Intergalactic Beings (FPE). EarthSeed was commissioned by the Art Institute of Chicago and premiered on June 22, 2017. EarthSeed was presented in association with the exhibition of Cauleen Smith: Human_3.0 Reading List. Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble Lisa E. Harris, vocals / theremin / electronics / composition Nicole M. Mitchell, flute / electronics / composition Julian Otis, vocals Zara Zaharieva, violin Ben LaMar Gay, trumpet / electronics Tomeka Reid, cello Avreeayl Ra, percussion All music, lyrics and text composed and arranged by Nicole Mitchell & Lisa E. Harris. All selections published by Wheatgoddess Creations (ASCAP) / Studio Enertia Media (BMI). Recorded live in concert at Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, June 22, 2017 Cover art: "Patternmaster", from SEED (The Book of Eve), Krista Franklin, Mixed media on paper, 2006 Design: Al Brandtner

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Transmissions :: Lisa E. Harris on EarthSeed

Our guest this week is Lisa E. Harris, whose new album with Nicole Mitchell is called EarthSeed. Inspired by the works of science fiction author Octavia Butler, it was recorded live at Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute of Chicago and features the Black Earth Ensemble—an all-star collection of Chicago improvisers and free jazz artists—including Julian Otis, Zara Zaharieva, Ben LaMar Gay, Tomeka Reid, and Avreeayl Ra—backing up the two composers.  

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fred jackson, jr. & avreeayl ra (at Oakland Museum of Contemporary Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFqKkW9Fbo9/?igshid=1jvsbctpszyoq

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Transmissions :: Lisa E. Harris on EarthSeed

Our guest this week is Lisa E. Harris, whose new album with Nicole Mitchell is called EarthSeed. Inspired by the works of science fiction author Octavia Butler, it was recorded live at Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute of Chicago and features the Black Earth Ensemble—an all-star collection of Chicago improvisers and free jazz artists—including Julian Otis, Zara Zaharieva, Ben LaMar Gay, Tomeka Reid, and Avreeayl Ra—backing up the two composers.

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Live Picks: 7/25

Screaming Females

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Americana, R&B, punk, hardcore, improvisational jazz--take your pick.

John Paul White, Lincoln Hall

Even if you were never a fan of The Civil Wars or John Paul White’s post-band solo career, you have to appreciate the guy. He co-founded Single Lock Records and helped expand its reach beyond music of The Shoals, releasing great albums by Nicole Atkins, Erin Rae, and Donnie Fritts. Plus, he co-wrote two of the best songs on the most recent Lindi Ortega album. Tonight, he may play only his music and non-White adjacent covers, but if you go, trust that you’ll be seeing one of the best Americana figures today.

Louisiana singer-songwriter Caleb Elliott opens.

Anderson .Paak, House of Vans

We previewed Anderson. Paak & The Free Nationals’ show last month at Huntington Bank Pavilion:

“Executive produced by Dr. Dre, Anderson .Paak’s Ventura is a quick follow-up to the disappointing Oxnard that’s solid, but safe. From the get-go, the skill at hand, in both the singing, rapping, and instrumentation takes reigns from the lyrics or themes. It’s a bold move to open your album with a song featuring a typically dexterous and overwhelmingly awesome verse from none other than Andre 3000, and .Paak’s slow and smooth delivery doesn’t quite keep the song in check. Overall, the record sees him at various stages of relationships, wanting a lover to come back to him on the opener, wanting to ignite a flame on blue eyed soul jam 'Make It Better' (which doesn’t use Smokey Robinson nearly enough), and questioning a woman on the freaky keyboard funk-laden, two part 'Reachin’ 2 Much'. On 'Chosen One', he wants a woman that loves him for him. On 'Twilight', he tells a lover that she guides him through the darkness–all you really care about is the arpeggio horn line and retro Pharrell beat. On closer 'What Can We Do?', he contemplates his next relationship–all you really care about is the mere presence of the late, great Nate Dogg. This is standard stuff with a great cast making the most they can out of the material.

Ventura succeeds best when .Paak gets creative with the format or delves into his sociopolitical perspective. The short, funny 'Good Heels' is a conversation disguised as a slow jam, he and Jazmine Sullivan contemplating how she’s gonna sneak in and out of the house to get her stuff back when his girlfriend is coming home. On 'Yada Yada', .Paak expresses his gratitude at being able to make music in general, let alone the type of music he wants to make: “Chicken wings and sushi, I’ve gotten used to the perks / Narrowly escapin’ the holy war on the turf.” And the political funk of 'King James' pays tribute to the biggest star in the NBA of the past couple decades, someone who also happens to be a philanthropist and advocate for the black community at large, someone for .Paak to look up to and aspire to be like.

Too often, though, .Paak’s grand realizations come in the form of thoughts like on 'Winners Circle': “If I know that I can get it, then I’ve already had it” isn’t really deserving of any sort of praise, despite its honesty and newness for .Paak. Songs of devotion and love might be novel for him, too, but the fact that he’s overshadowed by his guests make you wonder whether he’ll ever return to the greatness of an album like Malibu.”

Psych soul singer Kadhja Bonet opens, and .Paak’s band The Free Nationals perform a set of their own in between. Up at the site will also be an art installation by Dewey Saunders.

Screaming Females, Beat Kitchen

We previewed Screaming Females’ Lincoln Hall show last March:

“We’ve always loved Screaming Females, having last seen them at Music Frozen Dancing 2017, where we wrote that they stole the show even from that year’s headliners, METZ. We’re even more hype on their headlining show at Lincoln Hall because their new album All At Once is the best music they’ve ever made, highlighted by the stop-start thrill ride 'Glass House', far out, two-part 'Chamber of Sleep', and barn-burner 'Step Outside'. They’ll play a lot from All At Once and perhaps a couple from their other truly great album, 2012′s Steve Albini-produced Ugly.”

They may play a new song tonight at Beat Kitchen.

Punk bands Bad Cop/Bad Cop & Dark Thoughts open.

Terror, Bottom Lounge

The oft-touring Terror is one of five bands from Pure Noise records on this current showcase tour. We previewed their set at Subterranean last fall:

“Sure, Total Retaliation’s got its fair share of lyrical head-scratchers ('Execution / Exile / Disillusion / No trial!’). But a song like 'Resistant to the Changes’ is Terror turning a new leaf for the positive. ‘I will never take these words for granted,’ Vogel sings, 'I came here to erase those years / You gave me a place to come home / And I will never walk this world alone.’ Finally, the walls have fallen.”

Orange County hardcore punks Stick to Your Guns headline. Canada’s Counterparts, Long Island’s Sanction, and Delaware’s Year of the Knife also open.

Rempis/Abrams/Ra, Elastic Arts

In preparation for their performance at the Chicago Jazz Festival mainstage, saxophonist Dave Rempis, Joshua Abrams (this time on bass), and drummer Avreeayl Ra will play two improvised sets tonight at Elastic Arts.

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Restroy 'Sketches' Official Release Trailer from Jacob Hand Photography + Motion on Vimeo.

RESTROY: Christopher Dammann James Davis Kevin Davis Paul Giallorenzo Mabel Kwan Avreeayl Ra

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[noloveforned]

the new show hits wlur at 8pm and we'll be giving a little extra attention throughout to mark lanegan, who passed away earlier this week. tune in or catch up with last week's show below!

no love for ned on wlur – february 18th, 2022 from 8-10pm

artist // track // album // label luluc featuring j mascis // me and jasper // sculptor // sub pop snail mail // adore you (valentine demo) // adore you (valentine demo) - single // matador local tourist // undone // other ways of living // lovers weekend cat stevens // i wish, i wish // harold and maude soundtrack (remastered) // universal cat power // here comes a regular // covers // domino * curtis harding // hopeful // if words were flowers // anti * big thief // simulation swarm // dragon new warm mountain i believe in you // 4ad * picastro // man has been struck down by hands unseen // i've never met a stranger cassette // (self-released) lofi legs // thinking of you // leg day // we were never being boring great lakes // i'm not listening // contenders // happy happy birthday to me * research // delusion loop // the post modern always rings twice // better than your records emma-jean thackray // say something (live on later with jools holland) // yellower, volume one ep // movementt joel vandroogenbroeck // rocks // far view // drag city graham collier featuring feat. harry beckett and ed speight // red sky at night // british conversations // my only desire robbie lee and lea bertucci // image mirror // winds bells falls // telegraph harp dave rempis and avreeayl ra // fire and ash // bennu // aerophonic irreversible entanglements // lágrimas del mar // open the gates // international anthem gene russell // me and mrs. jones // talk to my lady // black jazz i-sef u-sef // alone again // consistency cassette // preference golden browne featuring yu // something // golden browne // hipnott seba kaapstad featuring quelle chris // our people // konke // mello music group akai solo // color of conquerors // ride alone, fly together // novelty kitty craft featuring yoshinori aoki // tonight // lost tapes // takotsubo marinita precaria // tú pa qué // no me miréis // elefant the convenience // kiss me in heaven // accelerator // winspear * teleman // storm chasing // sweet morning ep // moshi moshi * don't // your brother // lightning slow // dreamy life

* denotes music on wlur’s playlist

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Mazzarella / Håker Flaten / Ra — What You Seek Is Seeking You (Astral Spirits)

Photo by Bob Palmieri

Mazzarella / Håker Flaten / Ra - What You Seek is Seeking You by Nick Mazzarella Trio

The trio seems to be alto saxophonist Nick Mazzarella’s favorite setting. He has led a couple of them, and the tunes he composes unfurl handily when propelled by a swinging rhythm section and unconfined by the harmonic requirements of chordal instruments or additional horns. This assembly might be similarly configured, but its method is quite different. The saxophonist leaves his book at home, and the trio collectively improvises the music.

Between them, double bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Avreeayl Ra have played a myriad of jazz variations with ensembles such as The Thing, Sun Ra’s Arkestra, Atomic and the AACM Great Black Music Ensemble. Each plays with an assertiveness that shapes the ensemble sound, making this a band of equals. Håker Flaten reckons with his instrument’s core role as a low-end foundation, but he also stirs up maelstroms of activity and transmits meter-less bursts of sound that transform whatever is happening nearby without trying to complement it. Ra isn’t shy about resorting to volume to stoke excitement, but he’s also a colorist; witness the atmospheric rustling he wraps around Mazzarella’s closing phrases on “Recollection” and his patient exploration of his kit’s resources during his slow-burning introduction to “Firekeepers.” 

At some points, Håker Flaten and Ra transform Mazzarella’s playing by reframing him. If you’ve heard him in other contexts, you’ve heard him play something similar to the leaping, exuberant phrases that he opens with on “Recollection.” But since he’s weaving through rough ground rather than riding a groove, his playing exudes greater tension. Elsewhere he pushes further into abstraction, building from aggressive stutters to coarse cries on “Debris,” and substituting textural smears for his usual integrity of line on “Firekeepers.” He also digs deep into the emotional fundamentals, waxing tender on “Longing” and uncommonly stern on “Latter Day Protest Song.” Whichever way this group pushes him, it brings out his best. 

Bill Meyer

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Avreeayl Ra, musician #leicausa #leica #leicam240 (at Experimental Sound Studio)

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// Live Video AVREEAYL RA, AYMERIC AVICE, BERNARD SANTACRUZ, JEAN-MARC MONTERA, LIONEL GARCIN, Cremer, WHITE FENCE, QUETZAL SNAKES, MURMUR(S) 

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Les bêtes lumineuses (Épisode 035 : 24 avril 2015 : "Autour de Avreeayl Ra") by Les Bêtes Lumineuses on Mixcloud

Saison 02, épisode 17 (Autour de Avreeayl Ra) : vendredi 24 avril 2015 (18h à 19h) 1. Ari Brown (avec Avreeayl Ra, Joseph Ben Israel, Kirk Brown, Thadeus Expose, Art Burton, Enoch) :: Rahsaan in The Serengeti :: Venus (Delmark, 1998) 2. Active Ingredients (Avreeayl Ra, Jemeel Moondoc, Tom Abbs, Chad Taylor, Rob Mazurek, Steve Swell) :: Modern Mythology :: Titration (Delmark, 2003) 3. Frequency (Avreeayl Ra, Harrison Bankhead, Edward Wilkinson, Nicole Mitchell) :: Satya :: Frequency (Thrill Jockey, 2006) 4. Dave Rempis, Josuha Abrams, Avreeayl Ra :: Ruah :: Aphelion (Aerophonic, 2014) 5. Harrison Bankhead Sextet (Harrison Bankhead, Ed Wilkerson, Mars Williams, James Sanders, Avreeayl Ra, Ernie Adams) :: Chicago Senorita :: Morning Sun, Harvest Moon (Engine Records, 2011) 6. James Sanders, Harrison Bankhead, Avreeayl Ra :: Chant :: Live at the Velvet Lounge (Amadeo, 2014) 7. Nicole Mitchell Black Earth Ensemble (Nicole Mitchell, Avreeayl Ra, Joshua Abrams, Tomeka Reid, Tim Jones, Art Burton, Edie Armstrong, Brian Nichols, David Boykin, Tony Herrera, Cory Wilkes, Savoir Faire, Aquilla Sadalla, Glenda Zahra Baker) :: Journey for 3 Blue Stones :: Hope, Future and Destiny (Dreamtime, 2004)