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ESS’s Option music salon returns for spring with Jim O’Rourke
ESS’s Option music salon returns for spring with Jim O’Rourke, and Chicago rappers Saint Ripley and Osa North level up on new releases.
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Eiko Ishibashi’s Hyakki Yagyō is a dazzling and dizzying musical ghost story
Japanese multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Eiko Ishibashi has spent the past couple decades working in a multitude of idioms, including art-pop, jazz, postpunk, and free improvisation. It’s been thrilling to hear her move among styles and ideas from album to album, and her latest, Hyakki Yagyō (“Night Parade of One Hundred Demons”), is one of her […]
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The most interesting man in Japanese jazz leads an international quartet
If you ask Google to translate “Bonjintan” from Japanese into English, it will tell you the word means “ordinary person”—but there’s nothing ordinary about the leader of this international quartet. Akira Sakata, born in Hiroshima early in 1945, has had a dazzlingly varied career: he’s a marine biologist who lectures on water fleas and biodiversity; […]
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On Fillmore parlay a Brazilian epiphany into another rebirth
On Fillmore, the long-running duo of drummer Glenn Kotche and bassist Darin Gray, return after seven years with the loose, accessible Happiness of Living.