Wire Recordings Of The Year 2020 pt 2
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jazzy_daveNumber five to eight -
No.5
Duma - Lionsblood
Recorded at Kampala’s Nyege Nyege Studios over three months in mid-2019, the debut album from Duma – it translates as Darkness in Swahili – was a frenetic and physical collision of various extreme musics: hardcore punk, grindcore, breakcore, noise. Neil Kulkarni said: “Throughout, Lord Spike Heart is able to make his rage clear yet also use his voice as an effect, an additional layer of derangement – at times it’s as if he’s got a needle on his vocal cords and is scratching up a firestorm.”
No.6
Jeff Parker & The New Breed - Max Brown
The guitarist for Chicago post-rock group Tortoise, on the side Parker has built a reputation as a skilful jazz sideman and solo composer in his own right. A companion to 2016’s The New Breed, Suite For Max Brown mixed up the digital composition and jazz improvisation, drawing from John Coltrane and Joe Henderson along the way. John Morrison said: “Whereas The New Breed was brash, upfront and funky, Suite For Max Brown is soft and elegant… Complex, challenging and infused with a warm familial glow.”
No.7
Still House Plants - Able To
Physically, Still House Plants are located between Glasgow and South London. Sonically, they draw on the vocal melisma of R&B, the improvisational methodologies of free jazz and the minimal end of post-punk. Philosophically, they sit in a place somewhere between improvisational discipline and theatric play. Their second LP Fast Edit was an angular and curious thing, fractured and discordant but presented with an intimacy that was seductive. Claire Biddles said: “There are no conclusions on Fast Edit and that’s what makes it exceptional.”
no.8
Hildegard Von Bingen: In Principio Omnes, from Ordo Virtutum
To create A Late Anthology Of Early Music, the Dublin born composer and former music history teacher handed hours of a cappella recordings to machine learning specialists Dadabots for transformation. With uncanny results: splashes of white noise, glitches and grunts, with tantalising glimpses of humanity at the centre. Louise Gray said: “By setting musical convention and computer science to interrogate each other... Walshe suggests new traditions that are closer than one might think.”
Enjoy
No.5
Duma - Lionsblood
Recorded at Kampala’s Nyege Nyege Studios over three months in mid-2019, the debut album from Duma – it translates as Darkness in Swahili – was a frenetic and physical collision of various extreme musics: hardcore punk, grindcore, breakcore, noise. Neil Kulkarni said: “Throughout, Lord Spike Heart is able to make his rage clear yet also use his voice as an effect, an additional layer of derangement – at times it’s as if he’s got a needle on his vocal cords and is scratching up a firestorm.”
No.6
Jeff Parker & The New Breed - Max Brown
The guitarist for Chicago post-rock group Tortoise, on the side Parker has built a reputation as a skilful jazz sideman and solo composer in his own right. A companion to 2016’s The New Breed, Suite For Max Brown mixed up the digital composition and jazz improvisation, drawing from John Coltrane and Joe Henderson along the way. John Morrison said: “Whereas The New Breed was brash, upfront and funky, Suite For Max Brown is soft and elegant… Complex, challenging and infused with a warm familial glow.”
No.7
Still House Plants - Able To
Physically, Still House Plants are located between Glasgow and South London. Sonically, they draw on the vocal melisma of R&B, the improvisational methodologies of free jazz and the minimal end of post-punk. Philosophically, they sit in a place somewhere between improvisational discipline and theatric play. Their second LP Fast Edit was an angular and curious thing, fractured and discordant but presented with an intimacy that was seductive. Claire Biddles said: “There are no conclusions on Fast Edit and that’s what makes it exceptional.”
no.8
Hildegard Von Bingen: In Principio Omnes, from Ordo Virtutum
To create A Late Anthology Of Early Music, the Dublin born composer and former music history teacher handed hours of a cappella recordings to machine learning specialists Dadabots for transformation. With uncanny results: splashes of white noise, glitches and grunts, with tantalising glimpses of humanity at the centre. Louise Gray said: “By setting musical convention and computer science to interrogate each other... Walshe suggests new traditions that are closer than one might think.”
Enjoy
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