favourite things | 12.18

A playlist of tracks by artists in order of their appearance at CHICAGO OVERGROUND, a two-night showcase of creative new music from the Windy City, January 11th & 12th at Nublu, 151 Avenue C, New York, New York, as part of the NYC Winter Jazz Fest 2019 Marathon.

Winter Jazzfest 2019 is proud to present CHICAGO OVERGROUND, a two-night showcase of Creative New Music from the Windy City, curated by Scottie McNiece (of International Anthem) and Piotr Orlov (music writer/editor, and producer at Raspberry Jones), as part of the festival’s Marathon weekend. Some established, some emerging and all together — these are a few of the very best artists that Chicago’s creative, improvisational, and new jazz scenes have to offer in 2019, many of them making their New York City debuts. 

Participants include The JuJu Exchange (led by Nico Segal, f.k.a. Donnie Trumpet), Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, former Noname musical director Akenya, and acclaimed musical polymath Ben LaMar Gay. Also on the bill are drummer Mikel Patrick Avery leading his PLAY project; drummer Jeremy Cunningham premiering music from his forthcoming album, The Weather Up There; pianist/clarinetist and spiritual-jazz soothsayer, Angel Bat Dawid with her group The Brothahood; and RESAVOIR, a new group formed by trumpeter Will Miller (best-known for his work with the indie band Whitney, and numerous hip-hop artists including Chance the Rapper). 

Each evening will close with jam sessions led by beloved, special guest expat-Chicagoans, Jaimie Branch (Friday 1/11) and Marquis Hill (Saturday 1/12). The MC for both evenings will be Ayana Contreras (host of Reclaimed Soul on Vocalo Radio, co-producer of WBEZ flagship program Sound Opinions) and music between sets will be provided by DJ and event producer, King Hippo (of Lumpen Radio, Fresh Roasted: Live Beat-Making & Battle). Doors open at 7pm both nights. For full marathon schedule, visit Winter Jazzfest’s website:

www.winterjazzfest.com

CHICAGO OVERGROUND @ NYC Winter Jazzfest 2019

FUTURE BEATS & SO ON (SONGS) WINTER 2019

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favourite things | 4.19

Jazz explorations out the Floating Points handbook, from five-piece @knkjs. 

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Kinkajous - All Kinds (STW Premiere)

Heavy Weight-Home RAW Studio 1983 (Roland & Manwell)

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3024-FYE2 (RELEASE DATE 27-11-2018) Yak presents his first solo EP on the 3024 imprint! Three intricate percussive excursions showcasing this man's amazing talent. Rhodes Island is a vibey drum 'n bass number with dazzling edits and beat trickery, reminding us of the legacies of Nucleus and Paradox while still sounding extremely 2018. Don Greno is a more garage influenced roller that has been doing the rounds as a dub on Rinse. Ocean Floor is a sluggish, dubbed out drum groove perfect for those late night early morning vibrations.

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Yak - Rhodes Island (3024-FYE2)

@abasemusic delivers groove and sateen sweetness on this eight-minute stunner via @cosmiccompositions.

Read more: http://www.stampthewax.com/2018/11/30/premiere-abase-align-feat-wayne-snow/
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Àbáse - Align feat Wayne Snow (STW Premiere)

The Unknown

The Unknown - Rosie Turton - Rosie's 5ive

RESAVOIR is a diverse collective of young Chicago artists & improvisers who perform songs written and directed by trumpeter Will Miller. Best-known for his work with the indie band Whitney — and for his brass cameos on tracks by Chance the Rapper, Lil Wayne, Mac Miller, Saba, Eryn Allen Kane, and more - Will is, at his core, a jazz cat who trained at the Oberlin Conservatory. All the while, the Chicago native has been slowly and privately developing the music he jokingly refers to as his “bedroom jazz” sound. RESAVOIR is the manifestation of this development, with Miller often harmonizing his trumpet through synths and samplers, giving his leads an expansive, orchestral sound which can recall Soulquarian Roy Hargrove or Jon Hassell. RESAVOIR's debut album is due in 2019, on International Anthem. Tonight, RESAVOIR will feature Miller (trumpet, MIDI keyboard), Akenya Seymour (keyboards, vocals), Irvin Pierce (tenor sax), Lane Beckstrom (bass), Peter Manheim (drums) and Jeremy Cunningham (drums).

RESAVOIR - "Escalator (Live at Co-Prosperity Sphere)"

Jeremy Cunningham is a drummer, composer, improviser and educator, who’s been an integral part of Chicago's improvisational music scene for nearly a decade. Cunningham's loose, zen drumming style has featured on recordings by the likes of trumpeter Marquis Hill and Nick Mazzarella's Meridian Trio, as well as with his own quartet, which also includes guitarist Jeff Parker, bassist Matt Ulery and alto saxophonist Josh Johnson. More recently, Cunningham has co-founded the Chicago Drum Choir with Mike Reed and Quin Kirchner. On this evening, Jeremy Cunningham will be previewing music from his upcoming album, The Weather Up There, which uses his personal, tragic experience of the loss of his brother to examine gun violence and the acute effect of that violence on other people's lives, applying the lens of memory, response, and collage to the music. Performing The Weather Up There alongside Cunningham will be Jeff Parker (guitar), Dustin Laurenzi (saxophone + electronics), Mike King (piano), Paul Bryan (bass), and special guests.

Jeremy Cunningham - "The Weather Up There"

Joshua Abrams is a veteran jazz bassist, experimentalist, improviser, and, since 2010, the bandleader of Natural Information Society, in which he plays the guimbri, a Gnawan string instrument which is at the heart of the group's hypnotic sound. Natural Information Society features a shifting line-up of musicians who use traditional and electric instruments to build intricate, long-form psychedelic environments, composed and improvised, connecting a wide range of contemporary musics and methodologies, including jazz, minimalism and krautrock. It is music that explores stasis, continuity, repetition and layering. Natural Information Society’s albums are critical favorites, with 2017’s Simultonality hailed by the likes of The Wire, Pitchfork, and Rolling Stone as one of the year’s best. On this evening, Natural Information Society will feature Abrams and Lisa Alvarado (harmonium), Mikel Patrick Avery and Chad Taylor (drums), Jason Stein (bass clarinet), Angelica Sanchez (piano).

Simultonality

Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - "Maroon Dune"

Ben LaMar Gay is a cornetist, vocalist, composer, and producer from the Southside of Chicago who moves sound, color and space through folkloric filters, to produce strikingly original electro-acoustic pieces. Whether sounding like ambient jazz, sensually theoretical funk or pastoral verse laid out over beats, Ben's music never loses its humanity or its aspiration towards the sublime. He’s musically influenced by a collection of experiences in the Americas (North, Central and South); and his expansive, avant-garde idea of “Americana” is under the spell of a planet brought closer by technology. Ben's 2018 album release, Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun (a top five “Best Albums of 2018” selection by The WIRE) is actually a collection of music compiled from seven albums he made over the last seven years but never made the effort to release - and which are all now being reissued by International Anthem Recording Co. This evening Ben will perform alongside Will Faber (guitar), Matthew Davis (tuba), Tommaso Moretti (drums).

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Ben LaMar Gay - "Lamps"

Mikel Patrick Avery is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, photographer and educator who's been an active part of Chicago’s music community for over a decade. Established as a jazz drummer, Mikel has been recognized for a melodic percussive style that often involves the use of unconventional “non-musical” objects. In recent years, Avery’s become a crucial part of various local ensembles, including Rob Mazurek’s Alternate Moon Cycles, Joshua Abrams’ Natural Information Society and Theaster Gates’s Black Monks of Mississippi. Mike Patrick Avery's PLAY is one of several projects he leads, and the most...playful. PLAY performances draw on the idea of a staged play (think props, objects, staging, dialogue), and engages techniques found in vaudeville and early Hollywood. PLAY also draws on the idea of child’s play, with Avery and his bandmates utilizing the stage as if it were a giant sandbox, moving from instrument to instrument in a seemingly free-willed manner, clouding the idea of what us planned and what is improvised. Tonight, PLAY will consist of Avery and Anthony Bruno (tenor saxophone), Ben LaMar Gay (cornet), John Sutton (bass).

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Mikel Patrick Avery - "...machine"

Angel Bat Dawid is a Black Earth Traditional composer, improviser, clarinetist, pianist, and vinyl addict. She is also a sonic archaeologist gathering and excavating soundz/music from space, the heavens, the ether and beyond. She restores peace, love and healing to the world, using the most powerful tool imaginable: omniversal sound. In 2017, Angel self-released the EP, The Joy of Living; and in 2018, she composed a “cosmic love opera” based on Song of Solomon that was performed at Co-Prosperity Sphere, an experimental arts and cultural center in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood that is home to International Anthem Recording Co, Lumpen Radio, Public Media Institute, and a handful of other grassroots organizations. This evening, the Brothahood will consist of Xris Espinoza (percussion, saxophone), Adam Zanolini (woodwinds, bass), Isaiah Collier (saxophones, percussion) and N.W. Long (electronics).

Angel Bat Dawid - "What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black Dr. Burroughs"

Purchase the full album at victorhaskins.bandcamp.com

from the recently released album "Showing Up"

All music composed by Victor Haskins 

Performed by Victor Haskins’ Skein:

Randall Pharr: double bass
Tony Martucci: drums and percussion
Victor Haskins: cornet, EWI, sound design, sound effects

Producer and Composer: Victor Haskins
Recording, Mixing, and Mastering Engineer: Bill McElroy
Recorded at Slipped Disc Audio, Ashland in October 2018
Photography: Josh Marcus
Album Art: Lionel Thomas

For more info:
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contact@victorhaskins.com

℗© 2018 Victor Haskins and VXH Music

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precious w/ chromonicci & sofasound

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dark matter

From the EP 'Solid Matter EP'
Release date : January 30th
Order : http://smarturl.it/solidmatterep

Wile Out is an internet-based music label, whose main focus is on developing emerging artists from all over the World Wide Web. 

Artist : @soundcloud.com/pl4netdust
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Label : @soundcloud.com/wileoutmusic
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Solid Matter EP [Wile Out]

Premiere : Pl4net Dust x Cynthia - That Song [Wile Out]

Here it is our 3rd compilation w/ artists all around the globe!
~~ THE SOUNDS VOL. III ~~
Thank you all!

>> FREE DOWNLOAD HERE: toneden.io/invdrs/post/the-sounds-vol-iii <<

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Artists:
@daehanseo
@youngcitrus
@auxtinmarc
@vhoor
@jarradcleofe
@boutdj
@pekodjinn
@neya2000
@tera-kora
@swingabeats
@tuisessions
@jlzoficial
@pedro_damaia
@lym_dot
@ruxellmusic
@riapedro

Artwork by: Ricardo Tramontini

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Twelve

Twelve (feat. Ralph Alessi)

Track taken from upcoming album titled "Organized" by Jesse Koolhaas. The album will be released on Urban Waves Records on April 15th as limited vinyl edition along the digital version. Jesse is an Amsterdam based sound designer and soundtrack composer and for this album he gathered talented jazz musicians to help him create a blend of downtempo electronic music with jazz improvisations. Musicians such as bass clarinet player Joris Roelofs, keyboard player Joost Swart and Ud player Babak Kamgar contributed to make the album a spiritual journey. Credit also goes to Vienna based engineer sterilOne at staub audio engineering vienna for the incredible analog mastering.
Organized is just that, a spiritual journey that will transpose your senses and open a window to Jesse's incredible inside world. Imagine looking at   man made industrial cold and rigid perfection and nature's warm and beautiful imperfection. This album is the place where both these things unite and make good resulting into a fresh experience and journey.