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Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, & Tyshawn Sorey Album Review: Compassion

(ECM)

BY JORDAN MAINZER

The word "compassion" certainly evokes sympathy for the downtrodden. On the similarly titled second album together from pianist Vijay Iyer, bassist Linda May Han Oh, and drummer Tyshawn Sorey, songs do pay tribute. Whether remembering victims of public health failures, the lives of human rights activists, or the legend of instrumental geniuses who have left this earthly plane, the trio is appropriately reverent without delving into overt heroification. But what the word "compassion" connotes, or rather implies, is a sense of listening to someone else, to one another. The trio recorded their terrific debut album Uneasy when they first started playing together; though the album was urgent in its themes, it's the comparatively natural Compassion that displays three players truly honed in. On Iyer's 8th release as a band leader for ECM (third with a trio), the group returned to Oktaven Audio in Mount Vernon, New York to work with label founder Manfred Eicher on bringing to tactility Iyer's compositions and interpretations. The result is even more coherent than its predecessor.

Iyer has long had the ability to pull from seemingly disparate influences and inspirations and make something whole by giving it his unmistakable stamp. In the case of Compassion, the steady presence of Oh and Sorey allow him to literally cull from different projects to introduce pseudo suites of material that nonetheless form a collective. For instance, "Maelstrom", "Tempest", and "Panegyric" come from Tempest, a project dedicated to those who died of COVID. Though each song came from the same place, they conjure unique moods. The first builds around Iyer's push-pull, sudden spritely and chaotic piano arpeggios, as well as Sorey's skittering backbeat. The second and third are somewhat funky and sneaky, though they're connected by Oh's jaw-dropping low register bass solos. Stunningly, each has their effective album spiritual sibling elsewhere. "Malestrom" sports a forward sway like "Arch", a song for Archbishop Desmond Tutu, buoyed by Sorey's drums as Oh and Iyer absorb each other. "Tempest"'s hooks set the stage later in the album for "Ghostrumental", which originated in music for the ensemble project Ghosts Everywhere I Go that premiered at the University of Chicago in 2022 to honor the poet Eve Ewing. On "Ghostrumental", Oh's leads are groovy, Iyer's piano is subtly rhythmic, and Sorey delves into something approaching hip hop. Meanwhile, "Panegryic"'s mournfulness previews "It Goes", also from Ghosts Everywhere I Go. "It Goes" centers around Emmett Till, but it doesn't necessarily mourn him as much as imagine the life he could have led had he not been murdered by racists; I can best describe Iyer's left and right hand playing, respectively, as plaintive and soulful.

The most unexpected songs on Compassion are the covers. A two-and-a-half minute play on Roscoe Mitchell's "Nonaah" threatens at times to become divergent, with its breakneck pace, but is somehow just as tuneful as any other song on the album. And then there's "Overjoyed", Iyer's bopping Steve Wonder interpretation that's also a tribute to the late, great Chick Corea, who performed the song on his final livestream during COVID. Iyer actually developed his version on the same piano Corea used, and his soloing evokes feelings of ecstatic fandom atop Sorey's clattering polyrhythms. This time, the tune does break away from the main theme, only to return to it when you think it's been lost. The moment takes your breath away, though importantly, most of Compassion is unshakeable enough to lull you into its world. It's the type of album you think about just as much, if not more, after it's done as when you were actively listening to it.

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Vijay Iyer- Linda May Han Oh - Tyshawn Sorey: Entrustment (Uneasy 2021)

"Entrustment" is a work that exemplifies the unique connection between Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, and Tyshawn Sorey, three musicians who operate in perfect harmony. The piece unfolds as a musical dialogue that transcends traditional jazz structures, blending the improvised with the meticulously conceived. From the very first notes, the trio establishes an introspective atmosphere that invites the listener to explore both sound and silence.

The interaction among the musicians is the central axis of the composition. Iyer, on the piano, weaves melodic lines that oscillate between ethereal and incisive, while Linda May Han Oh anchors the double bass with a solidity that provides balance and depth. Tyshawn Sorey, with his orchestral approach to the drums, adds textures that defy expectations, using dynamics and pauses to create moments of tension and release.

The rhythm of the piece is an element that constantly surprises. The musicians seem to play with time, blurring the lines between structure and spontaneity. This rhythmic fluidity, combined with the trio's ability to anticipate and react to each other's movements, creates a listening experience that feels alive and constantly evolving.

"Entrustment" is not just a display of technique and virtuosity but also a deeply emotional work. The piece resonates with a sense of introspection and searching, where every note feels laden with meaning. This trio proves that contemporary jazz can be both cerebral and visceral

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Vijay Iyer — Compassion (ECM)

The disjunct octaves don’t so much unfurl as radiate from a center of spinning molecules, masses and dotted planes gradually expanding, like a universe or a long-contained breath, elements in flux as they escape, coalesce and disperse. “Nonaah” is the perfect vehicle for the trio of Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh and Tyshawn Sorey and a stunningly vibrant distillation of what sets the group, and this album, apart from so many others.

Roscoe Mitchell’s now-iconic piece is itself a flame of many colors, changing states with each varied-ensemble iteration. This version, a kind of nucleus in flux lasting a mere 2:30, reveals its secrets only as the miniature rushes toward its denouement. Each piece on this trio’s sophomore album inhabits a similar place of mystery. Watch the metric feel shift like sand under sea as “Arch” whispers, writhes and grinds, Sorey and Oh expanding and contracting the plastic pulse until duple meter and whatever its antipode might be merge and dissolve into an uneasy unity. Inhale “Prelude-Orison”’s mistily Romantic vapors, the harmonies in juxtaposition so close to cognition as to ache but, like “Nonaah”’s conjoining post-Webernian points and starkly concise warrior confrontations, refusing to conform to one type or the other.  

 There is no one composing with Iyer’s blend of sonority sequences, those harmonic exhortations and rebuttals that slide in and out of focus with the veteran’s complete grasp and easy grace. “It Goes” may take a pianistic page from Ellington’s slow, steady and semi-statically majestic “Reminiscing in Tempo” or the ramps and near-silent moonlit pools of Chopin’s Berceuse, but the open harmonies and melody of jagged steps and descending arpeggiated stabs are pure Iyer. Of course, the trio slides, stomps and swerves through each change and revamp with all the symbiosis a constantly performing group can muster. “Tempest”’s groove and syncopated sizzle gives Oh space for a jaw-dropping solo, augmented each time she and Iyer clamp down on that A-flat in multiple octaves, as in a Talla cycle. Sorey pushes, pulls, cajoles, confronts and rides each rhythmic rapid “Maelstrom” offers up, driving hard as the trio kicks that open modal sound to the next level. His cymbal work opening the album is nothing less than magical, and here, the hat must be doffed to ECM’s production wizardry. They capture each interplay of wire, metal and skin as Sorey swings the group along its delicate way through a brilliantly novel take on Stevie Wonder’s “Overjoyed,” itself a nod to the late lamented Chick Corea.

We learn this from Iyer’s liner notes, deserving as much attention as the music. Liners are an art form, and Iyer is one of the few performers equipped with the understated but definite poetic vision to match the weight of his convictions. His father, his musical influences and predilections as well as his global and human concerns exist in an ever-present, a moment sampled and held even as its implications shift focus. Like his compositions, his verbiage captures levels and degrees of preoccupation as they solidify around and return to a basic theme. Inspiration might be the word crystalizing it, but rereading the nearly aphoristic clauses, stretching only slightly in sentence formation, offers up so many other options. Iyer hints at philosophies while expressing a winning gratitude and humility, a nucleus through and from which past and present, his own and those influencing him, continue to evolve in prismatic celebration.

Marc Medwin

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Os discos de jazz que levamos de 2024

De Nala Sinephro a Kamasi Washington, Shabaka, Ezra Collective e Rafael Toral, foram muitos os que este ano nos fizeram apaixonar pelo jazz. A redação Altamont juntou-se e selecionou 20 álbuns que nos ficaram na memória.

De Nala Sinephro a Kamasi Washington, Shabaka, Ezra Collective e Rafael Toral, foram muitos os que este ano nos fizeram apaixonar pelo jazz. A redação Altamont juntou-se e selecionou 20 álbuns que nos ficaram na memória. Era uma ideia há muito discutida e debatida na redação do Altamont, finalmente materializada este ano. Porque sabemos que temos, entre os vários elementos que contribuem para o…

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Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey Compassion

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FFO: JAZZ / DRUM, BASS AND PIANO TRIOS / LISTEN

For some people, music is not a variable. It is interwoven into the very fabric of their being, and present in every aspect of their life, however subconsciously. These people have a unique gift to translate their internal world into a tapestry of sound, and music simply becomes an extension of every triumph and struggle they endure. Vijay Iyer's personal journey with music began at three years of age with classical violin training, but when it comes to the piano, he is largely self taught, often referring to his own progress as a "series of happy accidents". Perhaps this gives credence to the wild, free-flowing and rebellious nature of his playing that canvases this album. There are no rules for Iyer to be governed by, only emotion, and a master of emotion he is. Now with nearly half a century (!!) of musical application under his belt, Vijay Iyer has returned with Compassion, a second offering of jazz compositions from his trio, featuring Linda May Han Oh on bass, and Tyshawn Sorey on drums—both with impressive credentials and experiences of their own.

Compassion is, as the title suggests, a practice in empathy and mutual understanding. The emotional arc of this album is immensely satisfying, with an ebb and flow of energy that often spans across multiple pieces. Early standout "Overjoyed" (a rendition of Stevie Wonder's classic) quickly sets the baseline for what the trio can do at their most jubilant and uplifting. There are a few deeper cut renditions on this album too, including Roscoe Mitchell's "Nonaah", and a curious mashup of John Stubblefield's "Free Spirits" and Gerri Allen's "Drummer's Song" to close out the album. Don't expect anything overtly familiar about these songs though. The ghosts of the original compositions still float deep within the harmonies, and emerge from time to time with a familiar run of the keys, but they have otherwise been expanded upon and transformed into something utterly unique and memorable in their own right.

Much of the album occupies the realm of quick-footed and frenetic glee, but songs like "Prelude: Orison", "Where I Am" and "It Goes" are great examples of the band slowing down to a crawl to bask in moments of somber reflection. There are hints of sadness here and there, but I wouldn't go so far as to say these are sad pieces—just holistic ones which expound upon the yin and yang of life, a reminder that there is no joy without sorrow. "Tempest" does a great job at exemplifying this duality by clashing a river of cheery but progressively maddening piano keys against the rhythm section's tumultuous undercurrent which threatens to overthrow our sense of security. It ends up being one of the most anxiety inducing pieces on the album simply due to the uncertainty it conveys.

The aforementioned "Nonaah" is particularly interesting. It is the shortest song on the album, at only 2:32, but it is the most condensed blast of intensity on the album. It stands right on the edge of pure chaos, and the original composition has a fantastic back story to boot (it deserves it's own review). These moments of controlled chaos feel like a necessity though, not simply to show off how wild and estranged from one another the trio can become without collapsing, but because chaos is an intrinsic part of life. We have to push through these moments of turmoil in order to appreciate our own resilience. In that way, "Nonaah" almost feels like an act of self-love. It's gripping the handrails and not letting go, because you know something better is around the corner.

And there is always something better around the corner. The trio's chemistry is simply intoxicating as they build upon their own powerful bonds of trust to deliver us a series of impeccable highs and disorienting lows—moments both comforting and deeply sobering. Linda May Han Oh's bass lines are just magic. They shine especially during the beginning of "Panegyric", where her inflections take on a conversational tone like she is tumbling through a speech of heartfelt confessions before a toast carries the band away. Likewise, there are countless moments across the album where I wished I could silence the piano and bass just to focus on Sorey's intricate dance on the cymbals. And leading them is Vijay Iyer, whose playing is both fearless and deeply evocative. Compassion's hour long run time almost doesn't feel long enough for the ground it attempts to cover. There is just an incredible amount of depth to these compositions that just begs for your time and attention, which is super easy to give when the return for your investment is nothing short of bliss.

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Co w jazzie piszczy [sezon 2 odcinek 12]

premierowa emisja 27 marca 2024 �� 18:00 Graliśmy: Arve Henriksen, Harmen Fraanje “Touch Of Time” z albumu “Touch Of Time”  – ECM Records Vijay Iyer and Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey “Nonaah” z albumu “Compassion” – ECM Records The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis “Emergence” z albumu “The Messthetics And James Brandon Lewis” – Impulse! Records Matthieu Bordenave “Cyrus” z albumu “The…

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LIVESTREAM: TYSHAWN SOREY with Aaron Diehl and Harish Ragavan, BLUE LLAMA JAZZ CLUB/UNIVERSITY MUSIC SOCIETY, Ann Arbor, 16 NOVEMBER 2024, both sets

This show fell into my lap through social media advertising when the sponsors opted to stream free this sold out gig. TYSHAWN SOREY is too big even for Smoke, so I’ve seen him perhaps once back when the Village Vanguard had its streams. Aaron Diehl doesn’t go slumming to my outlets, though he now directs Y92’s Jazz in July. Both have composed through (classical?) chops as Sorey is a significant composer and Diehl performs with orchestras including for Mary Lou Williams’ Zodiac Suite.

This project, this trio, through recordings like Mesmerism, Continuing, and Susceptible Now is NOT composed through, but takes storied jazz compositions and Great American Songbook tunes for serious rides. It is inventive and challenging, but not harsh nor prickly. A touchstone, a melody or song structure, gets heavily refracted. I sensed rather than heard Autumn Leaves in the first sense and recognized that a pop-py tune was going on at the point Vividry’s Your Good Lies was to be expected.

One nod to the other concert tradition was that Sorey announced the program at the start of the set and explained that it would be one through performance. Highly improvised and in the moment, they eschewed standard solos. They each got plenty of showcases and the focus shifted around the bandstand, but they didn’t lean on that element of jazz performance.

Sorey is in another trio with Vijay Iyer and Linda May Han Oh which I know but haven’t absorbed. But I have seen Iyer embark on intended suites but also emphasize compositions. I sense him to be a denser pianist than Diehl, so there’s an interesting contrast there. That said, Diehl more than filled the space with differently spun complexity. Yet the orchestral-ity of this collaboration suggests a different layering.

I have seen Harish Ragavan be almost overpowering in other trios. Here was complex, but more restrained. But, Diehl commanded a lot of attention, but Sorey was even more compelling. He struck me as much a percussionist coloring the music as much as a drummer in the familiar sense. He plays with only one cymbal beside the high hat and his floor tom holds sticks, brushes, and mallets. He often was playing with one mallet in his left hand and stick or brush in the other. Cymbals shimmered and the small tom and unsnared snare drum had an orchestral quality. He’s a big man, probably bigger than Johnathan Blake, but equally deft, lithe, and effortless.

I think it says something about his view of the drums that they opened the first set with Max Roach’s Sunday Afternoon and the second with Paul Motian’s From Time To Time. Ellington’s REM Blues from the trio album with Roach and Charles Mingus was a possible closer to the first set, but I was at dinner at that point and can’t say that’s I’d recognize it anyway. I suppose the second tunes of the set were meant to be touchpoints—Autumn Leaves and the r’n’b/pop tune. Making pianist’s tunes—Ahmad Jamal’s Seleretus and Brad Mehldau’s Bealtine—the way the suites end. Jamal/Mehldau make as interesting a comparison as Roach/Motian.

But, those comparisons also invite including Sorey with Roach and Motian and Diehl with Jamal and Mehldau. Sorey has Roach’s gravitas and Motian’s coloration of the music; Diehl has openness and melodicism with complexity.

I’m going to be puzzling over this gig for a bit. I find myself not rushing to test out their recordings or even possibly taking another run at the band with Iyer and Oh, but Sorey is important.

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Vijay Iyer / Linda May Han Oh/Tyshawn Sorey - Compassion

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Favorite Releases of February 2024

5. Compassion- Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, & Tyshawn Sorey

Essentials: “Overjoyed”, “Tempest”, “Ghostrumental”

4. Rooting for Love- Laetitia Sadier

Essentials: “Proteiformunite”, “Don’t Forget You’re Mine”, “The Inner Smile”

3. What Now- Brittany Howard

Essentials: “Every Color in Blue”, “What Now”, “Prove It To You”

2. Where we’ve been, Where we go from here- Friko

Essentials: “Get Numb To It!”, “Chemical”, “Statues”

1. PHASOR- Helado Negro

Essentials: “I Just Want To Wake Up With You”, “Best For You and Me”, “Wish You Could Be Here”

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American pianist and composer Vijay Iyer released his innovative project, ‘Compassion’, with bassist Linda May Han Oh and drummer Tyshawn Sorey as Vijay Iyer trio, following their acclaimed 2021 album ‘Uneasy’.

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Die besten Alben im Februar

Auch der Februar hat jetzt nicht die außergewöhnlichsten Alben hervorgebracht, aber 10 sehr gute sind es doch noch geworden.

Brittany Howard - What Now

Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She

Erick the Architect - i've never been here before

Friko - Where We’ve Been, Where We Go from Here

Helado Negro - PHASOR

IDLES - TANGK

MGMT - Loss of Life

Tha God Fahim & Cookin Soul - Supreme Dump Legend: Soul Cook Saga

The Last Dinner Party - Prelude To Ecstasy

Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey - Compassion

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7/9/22

Tyshawn Sorey

Uneasy

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Collaboration project with Vijay Iyer and Linda May Han Oh. Modern jazz and much more up-tempo than I would have originally thought or expected. The album is full of depth and forceful jazz tracks. It's definitely something that an active listener would enjoy and not something that can just be set in the background; you really hear this album.

8/10

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Rules Free Radio Feb 27

Tuesdays 2pm - 5pm  EST Rules Free Radio With Steve  Caplan bombshellradio.com On the next Rules Free Radio with Steve Caplan, we’ve got some new releases with a retro sound. One is a new band called The Electromagnates, one is a new release from an obscure 60s Garage Rock Psychedelic band called The Mystic Tide, and one is by The Weeklings. Other new music by J. Robbins, Lime Garden, El Perro Del Mar, whistler Molly Lewis, Crawlers, William Doyle, Levitation Room, Les Amazones D'Afrique, and one or two more. The Searchers, Dave Edmunds, The Lemon Twigs, Dot Allison, Jimmy Page, Carla Olson, The Troggs, The Motels, Beck, Fountains of Wayne, and others. In the third hour, we’ll hear some new Jazz releases by Joel Ross and John Surman mixed in with Nina Simone, Horace Silver, Charles Mingus, and Bill Frisell. The Weeklings - All The Cash In The World The Searchers - Hearts In Her Eyes The Wonders - That Thing You Do! Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk The Lemon Twigs - Ghost Run Free The Sensitive Drunks - There She Goes The Electromagnates - Airwave Hello Dolph Chaney - Cool In The Sunshine Spygenius - Metamorphosis Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly J. Robbins - Old Soul Fountains of Wayne - Bought for a Song The Mystic Tide - Frustration Carla Olson - I Can See For Miles The Mystic Tide - Why Jimmy Page - She Just Satisfies Lime Garden - Love Song El Perro Del Mar - Between You And Me Nothing Camera Obscura - Tears For Affairs Dot Allison - Shyness of Crowns Molly Lewis - The Crying Game The Troggs - Love Is All Around Crawlers - Call It Love The Motels - He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) Bill Baird - Night of the Living Dad The Asteroid No.4 - I Want to Touch You William Doyle - Now in Motion Beck - Mixed Bizness Les Amazones D'Afrique - Mother Murakoze Levitation Room - Cool It, Baby Ghost Note - Dry Rub Nina Simone - African Mailman Steve Herberman Trio - Delilah Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey - Free Spirits/Drummers Song Horace Silver - Lonely Woman Joel Ross - Mellowdee Charles Mingus - Goodbye Porkpie Hat John Surman - Flower in Aspic Bill Frisell - Invisible Read the full article

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Dusted Mid-Year 2024, Part III (The Lists)

Winged Wheel

Dusted’s writers picked two for the mid-year exchange, but any of them could easily reel off a dozen or more other favorites.  Find out what else they liked in this collection of lists. 

If you haven’t read Part I or Part II yet, check them out. 

Christian Carey

Arooj Aftab —  Night Reign (Verve)

Richard Baker —  The Tyranny of Fun (NMC)

Kyle Bruckman —  Of Rivers (New Focus)

Madi Diaz —  Weird Feeling (Anti)

Julia Holter —  Something in the Room She Moves (Domino)

Hurray for the Riff Raff —  The Past is Still Alive (Nonesuch)

Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey —  Compassion (ECM)

Kali Malone —  All Life Long (Ideologic Organ)

Rosali — Bite Down (Merge)

Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion —  Rectangles and Circumstance (Nonesuch)

Ches Smith —  Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic)

Waxahatchee —  Tigers Blood (Anti)

Tim Clarke

DIIV — Frog In Boiling Water (Fantasy)

Loma — How Will I Live Without A Body? (Sub Pop)

Jessica Pratt — Here in the Pitch (City Slang)

Jon Mckiel — Hex (You’ve Changed)

Winged Wheel — Big Hotel (12XU)

Corridor — Mimi (Sub Pop)

English Teacher — This Could Be Texas (Island)

Helado Negro — Phasor (4AD)

Ty Segall — Three Bells (Drag City)

The Smile — Wall of Eyes (XL)

Andrew Forell

Arab Strap — I’m totally fine with it 👍 don’t give a fuck anymore 👍 (Rock Action)

Camera Obscura — Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge)

Daryl Groetsch — Above the Shore (self-released)

Drahla — angeltape (Captured Tracks)

Geotic — The Anchorite (Basement’s Basement)

Iceboy Violet, Nueen — You Said You’d Hold my Hand Through the Fire (Hyperdub)

Kim Gordon — The Collective (Matador)

Mick Harvey — Five Ways to Say Goodbye (Mute)

Sandwell District — Where Next? (Point of Departure)

Umbrellas — Fairweather Friend (Slumberland)

Yosa Peit — Gutbuster (Fire)

Reissues:

Brion Gysin — Junk (WEWANTSOUNDS)

These Immortal Souls — Get Lost (Don’t Lie!) Mute

Bryon Hayes

Rosali – Bite Down (Merge)

Winged Wheel – Big Hotel (12xU)

Gastr Del Sol – We Have Dozens of Titles (Drag City)

Beings – There is a Garden (No Quarter)

Ambarchi Berthling Werliin – Dusted II (Drag City)

Sunburned Hand of the Man – Nimbus (Three Lobed)

Water Damage – In E (12xU)

Dun-Dun Band – Pita Parka Pt. 1: Xam Egdub (Ansible Editions)

Gerycz Powers Rolin – Activator (12xU)

Magic Tuber String Band – Needlefall (Thrill Jockey)

Alex Johnson

Rosali — Bite Down (Merge)

RE Seraphin —  Fool’s Mate (Take A Turn/Safe Suburban Home)

Uranium Club —  Infants Under the Bulb (Static Shock)

The Spatulas —  Beehive Mind (Post Present Medium)

Yohei —  Echo You Know (Perpetual Doom)

Pardoner —  Paranoid in Hell (Convulse)

NYSSA —  Shake Me Where I’m Foolish (Six Shooter)

Nowhere Flower —  Ruts the Place (Radical Documents)

Sheer Mag —  Playing Favorites (Third Man)

Cindy Lee —  Diamond Jubilee (Realistik Studios)

Oren Ambachi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werlin —  Ghosted II (Drag City)

Winged Wheel —  Big Hotel (12XU)

Jennifer Kelly

Rosali—Bite Down (Merge)

Mdou Moctar—Funeral for Justice (Matador)

Mary Timony—Untame the Tiger (Merge)

Myriam Gendron—Mayday (Thrill Jockey)

Lupa Citto—S-T (12XU)

James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg—All Gist (Paradise of Bachelors)

Rail Band—S-T (Mississippi)

Winged Wheel—Big Hotel (12XU)

Six Organs of Admittance—Time is Glass (Drag City)

Split System—Vol. 2 (Goner)

Ian Mathers

The Body & Dis Fig — Orchards of a Futile Heaven (Thrill Jockey)

Broadcast — Spell Blanket: Collected Demos 2006-2009 (Warp)

Cassandra Jenkins — My Light, My Destroyer (Dead Oceans)

Chelsea Wolfe — She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She (Loma Vista)

Jessica Moss — For UNRWA (Self released)

Laura Masotto — The Spirit of Things (7K!)

loscil // lawrence english — Chroma (Self released)

Myriam Gendron — Mayday (Feeding Tube/Thrill Jockey)

Polar Inertia — Environment Control (Northern Electronics)

Whitelands — Night-bound Eyes Are Blind to the Day (Sonic Cathedral)

Jim Marks

Ben Allison, Steve Cardenas, and Ted Nash — Tell the Birds I Said Hello: The Music of Herbie Nichols (Sonic Camera)

Mary Halvorson — Cloudward (Nonesuch)

Demian Cabaud — Arbol Adentro (Porta Jazz)

Fabiano do Nascimento and Sam Gendel — The Room (Real World)

Francesco Sensi — In Abstracto (WoW)

James Brandon Lewis Quartet — Transfiguration (Intakt)

James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg — All Gist (Paradise of Bachelors)

Juan Pablo Alcazar — Otro Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps (Porta Jazz)

Michele di Toro, Yuri Goloubev, and Hans Mathisen — Trinomics (Calogola)

Tony Moreno Trio — Ballads Volume 1 (Sunnyside)

Patrick Masterson

Cindy Lee — Diamond Jubilee (Realistik)

Chief Keef — Almighty So 2 (43B)

Marika Hackman — Big Sigh (Chrysalis)

Water Damage — In E (12XU)

Oneida — Expensive Air (Joyful Noise)

Winged Wheel — Big Hotel (12XU)

Burial — “Dreamfear / Boy Sent From Above" (XL)

Gouge Away — Deep Sage (Deathwish Inc.)

Blues Ambush — Blues Ambush (Radical Documents)

Tei Shi — Valerie (self-released)

Armand Hammer — BLK LBL (self-released)

Donato Dozzy — Magda (Spazio Disponibile)

Bill Meyer

 أحمد  [Ahmed] —Wood Blues (Astral Spirits)

 أحمد  [Ahmed]—Giant Beauty (Fönstret)

Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet—Four Guitars Live (Palilalia) 

Itasca—Imitation of War (Paradise of Bachelors) 

Lisa Ullen, Heirloom (Fönstret)

Lumpeks—Polonez (Umlaut) 

Matthew Shipp Trio, New Directions in Jazz Piano Trio (ESP-Disk’)

Olivia Block—The Mountains Pass (Black Truffle)

Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin—Ghosted II (Drag City)

Rafael Toral—Spectral Evolution (Moikai) 

The Handover—The Handover (Sublime Frequencies) 

Tomeka Reid Quartet—3x3 (Cuneiform) 

Jonathan Shaw

Bad Breeding—Contempt (Iron Lung)

Fuera de Sektor—Juegos Prohibidos (La Vida Es un Mus)

Cindy Lee—Diamond Jubilee (Realistik Studios)

SUMAC—The Healer (Thrill Jockey)

Thou—Umbilical (Sacred Bones)

VR Sex—“Hard Copy” (Dais)

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upcoming releases

there is not really a comprehensive calendar of music release dates, so i'm going to try to compile upcoming release dates here. most albums especially from major labels are dropped on fridays fyi.

to navigate, here is the format album/ep - artist [genre] (release date) {other notes}

january 2024

Hot Air Balloon - Pile [alt rock] (january 5)

Letter to Self - SPRINTS [alt rock] (january 5)

Born to Be - Itzy [kpop] (january 8)

Four-Calendar Café - Cocteau Twins [dreampop/shoegaze] (january 12) {remaster/rerelease}

Milk & Kisses - Cocteau Twins [dreampop/shoegaze] (january 12) {remaster/rerelease}

Orquídeas - Kali Uchis [r&b/neosoul/hiphop] (january 12)

Hudson River Wind Meditations - Lou Reed [ambient rock] (january 12) {remaster/rerelease; lou reed's final album}

Big Sigh - Marika Hackman [alt] (january 12)

Lovegaze - Nailah Hunter [alt folk/ambient/fantasy/harp] (january 12)

Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations - The Vaccines [indie rock] (january 12)

Saviors - Green Day [pop punk/alt] (january 19)

Little Rope - Sleater-Kinney [indie rock/riot grrrl] (january 19)

Is Survived By (Revived) - Touché Amoré [post-hardcore/screamo] (january 19)

Peaky Blinders: Season 5 (Original Score) - Anna Calvi [soundtrack] (january 26)

Peaky Blinders: Season 6 (Original Score) - Anna Calvi and Nick Launay [soundtrack] (january 26)

Everybody Can't Go - Benny the Butcher [rap] (january 26)

Junk - Brion Gysin [avant funk] (january 26) {reissue}

People Who Aren't There Anymore - Future Islands [indie rock] (january 26)

Sadness Sets Me Free - Gruff Rhys [alt/folk rock] (january 26)

Blue Rasberry - Kat Kirby [indie rock/post-folk] (january 26)

Philip Glass Solo - Philip Glass [contemporary classical] (january 26)

Wall of Eyes - The Smile [art rock] (january 26)

What an Enormous Room - Torres [alt rock] (january 26)

Three Bells - Ty Segall [alt rock/glam] (january 26)

february 2024

What Now - Brittany Howard [rock] (february 2)

What Do We Do Now - J Mascis [alt rock] (february 2)

King Perry - Lee "Scratch" Perry [reggae] (february 2) {posthumous}

Chupetones - Meth Math [experimental] (february 2)

Band on the Run (Underdubbed Mixes) - Paul McCartney and Wings [rock] (february 2)

Compassion - Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, and Tyshawn Sorey [jazz] (february 2)

She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She - Chelsea Wolfe (february 9)

What Happened to the Beach? - Declan McKenna (february 9)

Phasor - Helado Negro (february 9)

Rave:N, the Remixes - Kelela (february 9)

Weird Faith - Madi Diaz (february 9)

Forgot About Me - Pouty (february 9)

Magnet Factory - Pylon Reenactment Society (february 9)

Walls Have Ears - Sonic Youth (february 9)

Coming Home - Usher (february 11)

Adult Contemporary - Chromeo (february 16)

Blu Wav - Grandaddy (february 16)

Tangk - Idles (february 16)

This Is Me... Now - Jennifer Lopez (february 16)

Hole in My Head - Laura Jane Grace (february 16)

Grip - Seprentwithfeet (february 16)

The Past Is Still Alive - Hurray for the Riff Raff (february 23)

Rooting for Love - Laetitia Sadier (february 23)

Untame the Tiger - Mary Timony (february 23)

Loss of Life - MGMT (february 23)

Daniel - Real Estate (february 23)

march 2024

YHWH Is Love - Jahari Massamba Unit, Madlib and Karriem Riggins (march 1)

I Got Heaven - Mannequin Pussy (march 1)

Playing Favorites - Sheer Mag (march 1)

Where's My Utopia - Yard Act (march 1)

Apocalypse - Thundercat (march 1)

Tyla - Tyla (march 1)

Electric Blue Light - Lenny Kravitz (march 1)

Bleachers - Bleachers (march 8)

Letter to Yu - Bolis Pupul (march 8)

Glasgow Eyes - The Jesus and Mary Chain (march 8)

All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade - The Libertines (march 8)

Invincible Shielf - Judas Priest (march 8)

A Forsaken Lover's Plea - Chuck Strangers (march 15)

Real Power - Gossip (march 22)

Live Laugh Love - Chastity Belt (march 29)

Evolution - Sheryl Crow (march 29)

Heaven :x: Hell - Sum 41 (march 29)

sources:

pitchfork

bandcamp

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Vijay Iyer “Compassion”

ECM Records, 2024 Vijay Iyer po raz ósmy wydaje pod szyldem ECM swój album jako lider. Tym razem prezentując nowej nagrania tria z udziałem Lindy May Han Oh i Tyshawna Soreya. Na “Compassion” znajdziemy dwanaście utworów. W większości są to kompozycje pianisty, a wyjątek czynią „Overjoyed” Steviego Wondera, „Nonaah” Roscoe Mitchella oraz finałowa kompilacja “Free Spirits / Drummer’s Song” Johna…