#cloudward

[moonsweetswirl]

kinda sapphic of xianyun to look at guizhong out of tsundere behavior while reminiscing that she's superior in the mechanical arts and made final touches to the guizhong ballista to honor her in memory after many lantern rites. even sees guizhong and madame ping hanging out in the mountains like damn, she wanted to be in a polyamory so bad. but it's okay, ping and xianyun are dating bc it's what guizhong wouldve wanted

[dustedmagazine]

Mary Halvorson — Cloudward (Nonesuch)

Guitarist Mary Halvorson has played with a number of artists, but for her past three albums she has worked with a band dubbed Amaryllis: Halvorson, Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet). Over the course of their relatively brief tenure, they have cohered into a formidable ensemble, energetically collaborating with stalwart commitment to Halvorson’s compositions. There are eight of these on Cloudward, polystylistic vehicles for Amaryllis’ soloing.

Cloudward opens with “The Gate,” in which a brief theme in parallel voicings is supplanted by a series of solo turns, including incendiary ones from the brass. Brennan’s vibes continue the changes underneath, and the entire group reconvenes for a brief, smoldering coma. Halvorson plays a modal, looped intro to “The Tower,” which speeds up and then disappears. Next an undulating tune played by Brennan and underscored by Halvorson hovers diaphanously. After a time, terse brass interjections and a spider-web patterned bassline join. The texture is full yet never overly thickened. A vibes solo adds filigrees to the mix, soon augmented by Halvorson, moving from rhythm guitar to bending notes and unleashing terse imitations of the brass interjections. The brass players themselves begin to animate the proceedings with greater intensity in their repeated lines and with bends of their own. Suddenly, this ceases, the opening music returns, accompanied by oscillating brass duos. The tune closes in an echo of the intro with slow repeated notes in the guitar. A standout on the recording.

“Incarnadine” moves Amaryllis closer to free playing, with swooping guitar, trilling brass, pedaled vibraphone playing shimmering arpeggios, off-kilter drums, and angular arco bass. It is the rhythm section that takes its spotlight moment here, and the difference in playing approach is pleasantly surprising. Fujiwara also plays a rollicking intro to “Tailhead.” His polyrhythmic groove sets up two-against three lines and a syncopated tune in the brass. Garchik unleashes one of his best solos, eventually dueting with Halvorson while Brennan plays the original tune underneath. The intricacy of the structure of Halvorson’s music is particularly emphasized on “Tailhead.”

Halvorson is a generous collaborator, and most of the performances on Cloudward feel like a collaborative effort rather than a showcase for the leader. But on “Desiderata,” she lets it rip, playing a ranging, eventually looping, guitar solo that begins with a clean tone and secundal oscillations but climaxes with distortion and raucous glissandos. From free jazz to contemporary modern ensemble music, Halvorson has made thoughtful arrangements for Amaryllis. It’s great to hear her rock out too, playing with an abandon that has been simmering all along.

Christian Carey

[nonesuchrecords]

Guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson's new album, Cloudward, is out now! You can get it and hear it here.

Halvorson performs eight new compositions with her improvisatory sextet Amaryllis: Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet). Laurie Anderson is featured on one track.

The Guardian, naming Cloudward its Jazz Album of the Month, says: "Halvorson’s fusions of written and spontaneous music reach an entrancing new seamlessness and seductive warmth with this terrific set. Superb." PopMatters calls it "a shimmering, deeply satisfying example of a jazz sextet firing on all cylinders. Prepare to be astonished." Bandcamp says: "It’s only January, but it’s hard not to see this as one of the great achievements of 2024."

[rogueish]

Still not sure if Anna Butterss or Mary Halvorson wins the award for most brain melting jazz guitar of 2024.

Jlin also a competitor in at least one of these categories (as it turns out I like her work better when it veers away from strict footwork and more towards jazz), as is Arooj Aftab.

[sinceileftyoublog]

Mary Halvorson Album Review: Cloudward

(Nonesuch)

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Jazz guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson doesn't demand attention--as a listener, you give it to her anyway. Her latest album Cloudward features eight new compositions from the Amaryllis sextet, the same group featured on her excellent dual 2022 releases Amaryllis and Belladonna. Largely written in 2022 and inspired by post-pandemic optimism, the album title refers to flying on planes, an aspect of pre-pandemic life that returned despite our world never again being the same. Indeed, you could say the songs recall various stages of flight, from ascent and descent to coasting and turbulence, but in a broader sense, they simply show off Halvorson's incredible ability to foster something organic.

For much of Cloudward, Halvorson retreats into the background. Opener "The Gate" features Patricia Brennan's vibraphones in unison with the horn section, Nick Dunston's bass and Tomas Fujiwara's drums sneaking behind. Halvorson's trademark wiry playing peeps out from underground but doesn't assert itself to distract from Fujiwara's immaculate tempo changes or Jacob Garchik's trombone. Similarly, when Halvorson enters on "Collapsing Mouth", it's minimal and subtle, making room for Brennan panning around the horn section, and the rhythm section. Halvorson simply creeps on "Unscrolling", a song whose title I like to think pays tribute to the plane as the last place many of us can't or don't want to access the Internet. Its gongs and rippling cymbals contrast both the gorgeous brass harmonies and Dunston's moaning bowed bass, an exercise in deep listening if there ever was one. And then there's the Laurie Anderson-featuring "Incarnadine", a song that plays with your perception to the point you want to go even further down its rabbit hole. Atonal strings sound like they're being sucked out of the air and spit into another dimension; you're not sure whether the horn-like sounds are from effects or the featured players themselves, the entire track an alluring mystery.

Even on the tracks where Halvorson places her guitar front and center, she creates an atmosphere for all of the instruments to play off of each other. "The Tower" starts with prickly, echoing picking that turns chaotic and spidery--similar to Dunston's bass on "Unscrolling"--and eventually slows down to let vibes through the door along with Fujiwara's washy brushwork and the horn section. As the song builds, it sounds like the instruments are ricocheting off of each other. When it slows, it's delightfully woozy and harmonic. By the end, you realize Halvorson's beginning, alternating between abstraction and tactility, had set the stage for the rest of the song. On "Desiderata", the space between her guitar rhythms and Fujiwara's drums creates a funky sway, Brennan's vibes the first lead instrument. Halvorson crawls along horn lines before unleashing a crunchy, effects-laden solo, her one time to shred. On closer "Ultramarine", her playing emulates Dunston's upright bass solo to the point where it creates a pseudo blues vamp. Later, her bends emphasize the woozy quality of the horns, making space for Adam O'Farrill's trumpet solo. The song exemplifies the ultimate paradox of Cloudward in general: As players enter, the songs feel no less spacious, and no less empty as players leave. Halvorson creates a sort of static motion, like you're suspended in air while tunneling through space and time, on a plane in the sky.

[defjux]

Here's 100 of the albums from 2024 that i''ve enjoyed the most: 50 hip hop records, and 50 albums in other genres. There's still a ton of stuff I haven't gotten to yet or need to revisit, but i'm feeling pretty good about this and don't think too much would change aside from the order. Insane year for music overall, and surely there will still be some big releases in the next two months. Biggest surprise for me was definitely The Cure making a comeback after almost two decades and putting out their best album since Wish. I'm also convinced that Robert Smith is an actual vampire. he still sounds great after all this time. Charts with album titles included Again, i'm sure there's plenty of stuff that has gone under the radar for me so as always i'm open to recommendations. Let me know what your favorite records are, i'd genuinely like to know. I'll post the list of albums below, and maybe at the end of the year will do some kind of spotify playlist with one or two songs from each. Peace.

Hip hop:

ELUCID - REVELATOR

Ka - The Thief Next To Jesus

AKAI SOLO - DREAMDROPDRAGON

Mach-Hommy- #RICHAXXHAITIAN

Cavalier - Different Type Time

The Fortunate Ones - RESIN

Armand Hammer - BLK LBL

Dead Players - Faster Than the Speed of Death

ShrapKnel - Nobody Planning To Leave

Sunmundi & klwn cat - Lived and Born

Desert Camo - Desert Camo

Nakama - EMBERGO_

Lee Scott - To Tame A Dead Horse

Joshua Virtue - Black Box: JOSHUA IS DEAD

Freddie Gibbs - You Only Die ince

Navy Blue - Memoirs in Armour

Phiik & Lungs - Carrot Season

Nickelus F - MMCHT

Nuse Tyrant - Juxtaposed Echoes

Mary Sue - Voice Memos From A Winter In China

DJ Muggs & Raz Fresco - The Eternal Now

Revival Season - Golden Age of Self Snitching

Midnight Sons - Money Has No Owners

Tyler, the Creator - Chromakopia

Sasco - The Hottest Year on Record

Boldy James & Conductor Williams - Across The Tracks

Hester Valentine - Valenta

Mavi - Shadowbox

Serengeti - KDIV

JPEGMAFIA - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU

Rap Man Gavin & postureless - Memories, Dreams, Reflections

yungmorpheus - WAKING UP AND CHOOSING VIOLENCE

Sadistik & Maulskull - Oblivion Theater

Roc Marciano - MARCIOLOGY

R.A.P. Ferreira - the First Fist to Make Contact When We Dap

Deca & Dealz - Bough

Nxworries - WHY LAWD?

Oddisee - And Yet Still

Rich Jones & SINAI. - Sour Dub

Lupe Fiasco - Samurai

Noveliss & Hir-O - Cyberpunk Rhapsody

Cavalier & Quelle Chris - Death Tape 2: We Gon' Need Each Other

Killah Priest - Abraxas Rebis Simha Pleroma

Vince Staples - Dark Times

Kooley High & Tuamie - All Infinite

MIKE & Tony Seltzer - Pinball

Daniel Son & Futurewave - BUSHMAN BODEGA

Vic Spencer & August Fanon - Psychological Cheat Sheet 5

Jack Jetson & Illinformed - Winter Forever

bromethugzine - THUG ZINE issue 002: WORLD-SPIRIT

Everything else:

Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She

Iglooghost - Tidal Memory Exo

chat pile - Cool World

Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet

The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World

Trauma Ray - Chameleon

Terry Green - PROVISIONAL LIVING

Gouge Away - Deep Sage

Thou - Umbilical

ØKSE - ØKSE

Tenue - Arcos, bóvedas, pórticos

Krallice - Inorganic Rites

Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

Punchlove - Channels

Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding - Milton + esperanza

Arooj Aftab - Night Reign

Hammok - Look How Long Lasting Everything Is Moving Forward For Once

Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

Crumb - AMAMA

Kamasi Washington - Fearless Novement

Fievel Is Glauque - Rong Weicknes

Camila Bañados - Viento 1.

julie - my anti-aircraft friend

Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja

Skee Mask - Resort

Mary Halvorson - Cloudward

Infant Island - Obsidian wreath

Blushing - Sugarcoat

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD

MAGDALENA BAY - Imaginal Disk

Leaving Time - Angel in the Sand

Joel Ross - nublues

Both Gibbons - Lives Outgrown

geordie greep - The New Sound

Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor

Nails - Every Bridge Burning

Hiatus Kaiyote Love Heart Cheat Code

Liana Flores Flower of the soul

Babii - Daredeviil2000

Blind Girls - An Exit Exists

HERIOT - Devoured by the Mouth of Hell

Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves

Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

Melt-Banana - 3+5

Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God

Spirit of the Beehive - YOU'LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING

Hannah Frances - Keeper of the Shepherd

Ginger Root -Shinbanguni

Martha Skye Murphy - Um

Pluma - Não Leve a Mal

[projazznet]

The 10 best jazz albums of 2024

Check out The Guardian's roundup of the 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2024! From Jihye Lee’s innovative orchestral sounds to Mary Halvorson’s bold experimental guitar work in Cloudward, this list showcases the boundary-pushing talent of today’s jazz scene. Highlights include Miguel Zenón’s cinematic Golden City, Wayne Shorter’s posthumous Celebration, and the enchanting duo of Wadada Leo Smith and Amina Claudine Myers. 🎶✨ See the full list and dive into these must-listen albums here: The Guardian's Top 10 Jazz Albums of 2024

[noloveforned]

no love for ned is all set for our friday night slot on wlur from 8pm until midnight. join us live if you get the chance or catch up with last week's show on mixcloud any time you'd like!

no love for ned on wlur – january 19th, 2024 from 8-10pm

artist // track // album // label allo, darlin' // kiss your lips // allo, darlin' // fortuna pop! soft covers // the ballad of ricki tarr // soft serve // little lunch special friend // bête // wait until the flames come rushing in // skep wax maria t // wind down // (bandcamp mp3) // (unreleased) marty brass // meet me outside // painted glass cassette // just because the yawns // i win // the yawns // records records records sleater-kinney // untidy creature // little rope // loma vista bar italia // glory hunter // the twits // matador mali obomsawin and magdalena abrego // believer // greatest hits // (self-released) acetone // come on // cindy // new west meernaa // as many birds flying // so far so good // keeled scales titanic // te evite // vidrio // unheard of hope elkhorn // guinnevere // lagniappe sessions // (self-released) evan parker // from saxophone and trombone four // from saxophone and trombone // otoroku alex cunningham, patrick shiroishi, jessica ackerley and damon smith // slick with slime // five lines indecipherable cassette // profane illuminations mary halvorson // incarnadine // cloudward // nonesuch sun ra arkestra // astro black // live in roma, 1980 // holidays o.c. // time's up // word...life // wild pitch blu and nottz featuring shad and quelle chris // marcus garvey // afrika // nature sounds ego ella may // take it easy (miles' song) // field notes, part iii ep // (self-released) b. cool-aid featuring ladybug mecca // chalk round it (talk abt it) // leather boulevard // lex j. raise, jr and alijaa featuring mick jenkins // don't sweat it // call for you // universal (italy) julia mcfarlane's reality guest // precious boy // whoopee // night school tenniscoats // i am you are me // chippi tyoppi // majikick linda smith // salad days // nothing else matters // captured tracks grade school // i wish i looked as good as you do // how to make wooden planes // kingfisher bluez the siddeleys // when i grow up i'll be a god // slum clearance // matinée

[sonmelier]

Avant-cuvée 2024 : 2/8

Deuxième épisode des avant-cuvées 2024 en cette fin du mois d'avril, avec 6 nouveaux disques verrouillant d'ores-et-déjà leur place dans mon futur top 100 musical de l'année.

Ahmed | Wood Blues

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Angleterre | Astral Spirits | 59 minutes | 1 morceau

Ce quartet de jazz fondé à Londres est composé des britanniques Pat Thomas (piano) et Seymour Wright (saxo), du suédois Joel Grip (basse) et du français Antonin Gerbal (percussions). Depuis maintenant une décennie, il revisite les compositions du jazzman défunt Ahmed Abdul-Malik (bassiste et joueur d’oud) en les poussant dans de nouveaux retranchements. Ici, c’est un morceau daté de 1961, Oud blues (d’une durée de 4 minutes seulement) qu’il transforme en une improvisation live avant-gardiste et tourbillonnante de près d’une heure. Un hommage époustouflant de créativité et d’énergie brute.

🎧 Wood Blues

Donato Dozzy | Magda

🇮🇹 Italie | Spazio Disponibile | 51 minutes | 6 morceaux

Le maestro romain de l’ambient techno nous plonge ici dans un paysage sonore aquatique d’une douce et belle sérénité, livrant son meilleur album depuis plus de dix ans (et son remarquable Plays Bee Mask de 2013). Rappelant par endroits l’esthétique minimaliste accueillante du double album de référence Voices From the Lake (produit avec son compère Giuseppe Tillieci en 2012), Magda est une bande son tout aussi réconfortante que captivante, délicieusement propice aux instants de réflexion et de contemplation.

🎧 Le Chaser

Hannah Frances | Keeper of the Shepherd

🇺🇸 Etats-Unis | Ruination Record Co. | 37 minutes | 7 morceaux

Dans la plus pure tradition d'un folk progressif séculaire, à la fois mystique et rédempteur, ce troisième album d'Hannah Frances livre une fresque sonore et poétique absolument éblouissante. Profondément terrien mais majestueusement audacieux, il transforme le deuil (la perte du père) en une méditation aussi vibrante qu'hypnotique, aussi émouvante que sophistiquée. Instants suspendus beaux et apaisés, fulgurances orchestrales qui emportent tout sur leur passage : l'artiste se montre brillante dans chacun de ces registres, parée d'une voix et d'une plume d'un magnétisme à toute épreuve.

🎧 Keeper of the Shepherd

Mary Halvorson | Cloudward

🇺🇸 Etats-Unis | Nonesuch Records | 48 minutes | 8 morceaux

Mary Halvorson fait partie des esprits les plus affutés de la création artistique contemporaine. Elle a d’ailleurs reçu en 2019 la prestigieuse bourse MacArthur, dont l’objet est de libérer de toute contrainte financière pendant 5 années (afin qu’ils puissent se consacrer entièrement à leurs travaux de recherche) une vingtaine de citoyens américains se distinguant par leur intelligence, leur créativité et leur motivation à innover. Avant-gardiste et exploratoire, l’œuvre de la guitariste de jazz n’en est pas moins marquée par une profonde humilité, cherchant toujours à équilibrer l’improvisation libre avec des compositions structurées et expressives. Une patte absolument inimitable, laissant son empreinte de manière durable (les vibrations d’Amaryllis ne se sont toujours pas dissipées) et  qui ne cessera jamais de nous transporter (comme ici, vers les nuages).

🎧 Desiderata

Helado Negro | Phasor

🇺🇸 Etats-Unis | 4AD Records | 35 minutes | 9 morceaux

Peu d'artistes inspirent autant de sympathie que Roberto Carlos Lange. L'avoir vu en concert ne fait que renforcer ce sentiment. Au delà de la bonhomie du personnage, il se dégage de sa musique et de ses textes beaucoup de délicatesse et une douceur pleine de sagesse. Pour autant, l'expérimentation fait partie intégrante de son approche créative et la simplicité apparente de ses morceaux repose sur un travail en profondeur (textural comme émotionnel). Une très belle suite au Far In sorti en 2021.

🎧 Best For You and Me

Lord Spikeheart | The Adept

🇰🇪 Kenya | Haekalu | 37 minutes | 13 morceaux

Martin Kanja est une des figures les plus importantes de la scène électronique expérimentale de Nairobi. On avait déjà pu mesurer l’ampleur de sa force de frappe à travers différents projets, dont on retiendra prioritairement le groupe noise/indus Duma (avec un album éponyme qui avait fait grande sensation en 2020). Son premier opus solo, sous l’alias Lord Spikeheart, est une expérience sonore surpuissante et implacable, fusionnant métal, noise et rap dans un déferlement incessant de percussions explosives, de basses tonitruantes, de guitares distordues, de textures électroniques abrasives et de chants tantôt lugubres tantôt stridents. Aucun répit n’est offert pendant 37 minutes, avec en prime le renfort d’une véritable internationale bruitiste venue du Japon, du Venezuela, d’Europe ou encore d’Indonésie.

🎧 Nobody

[speed-seo]

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[jiminiatrashiiwa]

2024年　1~2月リリースの新譜・ベスト

2024年1~2月リリースの新譜から、よかったもの／よく聞いたもの16枚。 以下、リリース日順です。

Kali Uchis『Orquídeas』1/12（Geffen Records）

Folly Group『Down There!』1/12（So Young Records）

Surya Botofashina, Nate Mercereau & Carlos Nino『Subtle Movements』1/12（Leaving Records）

Mary Halvorson『Cloudward』1/19（Nonesuch Records）

PACKS『Melt the Honey』1/19（Fire Talk）

角銅真実『Contact』1/24（ユニバーサルミュージック）

The Smile『Wall of Eyes』1/26（XL Recordings）

Angry Blackmen『The Legend of ABM』1/26（ Deathbomb Arc）

Tapir!『The Pilgrim, Their God and the King of My Decrepit Mountain』1/26（Heavenly Recordings）

Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia『The Closest Thing to Silence』2/2（International Anthem）

Helado Negro『PHASOR』2/9（4AD）

Brittany Howard『What Now』2/9（Island Records）

Friko『Where we've been, Where we go from here』2/16（ATO Records）

Rafael Toral『Spectral Evolution』2/23（MOIKAI）

Steve Gunn & David Moore『Live in London』2/23（RVNG Intl.）

柴田聡子『Your Favorite Things』2/28（AWDR/LR2）

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Co w jazzie piszczy [sezon 2 odcinek 6]

premierowa emisja 14 lutego 2024 – 18:00 Graliśmy: Ches Smith  “The Most Fucked”  z albumu “Laugh Ash” – Pyroclastic Records Mary Halvorson “Tailhead” z albumu “Cloudward” – Nonesuch Records Arne Torvik Trio “Places To Write” z albumu “Songs for Roman” – Losen Records Hans P. Kjorstad & Ernst Reijseger   “Ginnung Where You There” z albumu “Gap of Ginn” – Motvind Records Peter Erskine “Some…

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February

Open Yellow Circle : New Meridian

Shimmerglisten : Sound Of Shadows

Ian Wellman : The Night The Stars Fell

Cowboy Sadness : Selected Jambient Works Vol. 1

Enofa : The House By The Sea

Mary Halvorson : Cloudward

Kelman Duran : Black Genesis Mixtape

Kirk Barley : Marionette

Kreidler : Twists (A Visitor Arrives)

Michal Turtle : Same Songs, Different Room

[nonesuchrecords]

Here's "The Gate," the opening track from Mary Halvorson's upcoming album, Cloudward, performed with her sextet Amaryllis: Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet).

The video by Robert Edridge-Waks features album artwork by DM Stith.

[twistedsoulmusic]

Cloudward, the latest offering from American jazz guitarist Mary Halvorson, showcases her continued prowess and creativity. This collection of eight new compositions is brought to life with the help of her talented six-piece backing band, Amaryllis.

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Mary Halvorson - Cloudward

USA, 2024, avant-garde jazz