Patrick O’Reilly
Erin Rogers and Alec Goldfarb. Earth’s Precisions Within the lineage of improvised guitar-and-saxophone duo recordings, Earth’s Precisions sets itself apart with its stated aim: exploring a single simulated hybrid of the two musicians’ instruments. Across five expansive tracks, saxophonist Erin Rogers and guitarist Alec Goldfarb[...] Read more
DeVon Russell Gray, Nathan Hanson, and Davu Seru. We Sick Recording inside a church on a single day in December 2020, the three musicians on We Sick found themselves in a sanctuary rendered empty by the pandemic and the ensuing quarantine. The liner notes reference a Malcolm X speech from 1963 before bringing us back to the present day:[...] Read more
Kate Gentile and the International Contemporary Ensemble. Biomei.i. Kate Gentile and Andrew Smiley. Flagrances Obliquity Records is a new label started by drummer–composer Kate Gentile and pianist–composer Matt Mitchell. They are likely familiar to fans of the composed and improvised experimental music coming out of New York, having both worked with artists like John Zorn, Tim Berne, and[...] Read more
Paul Steinbeck. Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM. The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) has been a guiding force in creative music since its inception in Chicago in 1965. Its membership has included a veritable who’s who of the jazz avant-garde scene, such as Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe[...] Read more