Spoken word artist Samantha Riott has emerged over the past few years as a unique and powerful figure on New York’s experimental music scene. Having developed a reputation as an iconoclast in the poetry world, she turned to fierce experimental music as her medium of self-expression. Her deeply personal, biting lyrics delivered with such raw
Tashi Dorji – Appa (Bathetic, 2014) [vinyl] Colin Hinton – Glassbath (self-released, 2018) Roman Filiu – Quarteria (Sunnyside, 2018) Jen Shyu – Song of Silver Geese (Pi, 2018) Brian Groder – Torque (Latham, 2006) Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet – self-titled (1962 original, Jeanne Dielman, 2016 reissue) [vinyl]
Peter Kuhn – Dependent Origination (FMR, 2017) Manas (Thom Nguyen, Tashi Dorji) – self-titled (Feeding Tube, 2015) Various – Exquisite Corpses from the Bunker (Heartpunch, 1988) James Brandon Lewis-Chad Taylor Duo – Radiant Imprints (Off, 2018)
Interview with Jacob Wick via Email, January 10-February 20, 2018 This is the third in a series of interviews that I have been conducting with musicians active in Mexico City. I had heard considerable praise of Wick by his contemporaries in New York prior to meeting him for the first time in Mexico City, where I
Quin Kirshner – The Other Side of Time (Astral Spirits, 2017) [vinyl] Rempis/Piet/Daisy – Throw Tomatoes (Astral Spirits, 2017) [cassette] Gibran Andrade Quartet – Puente (self-released, 2017) Sam Weinberg – Liar’s Loosh (Renfusa, 2017) [cassette] Tashi Dorji & Shane Parish – Expecting (MIE, 2016) [vinyl] Muyassar Kurdi & Nicholas Jozwiak – Intersections & Variations (Astral Spirits, 2017) [cassette] William Hooker Trio
Editor Cisco Bradley – Associate professor of history at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Bradley founded Jazz Right Now in 2013 with the explicit goal of highlighting younger artists while also building an archive for the music. Growing up near Madison, Wisconsin, he only occasionally got to hear creative music before discovering the Chicago scene. He
Ava Mendoza – Unnatural Ways (New Atlantis, 2014) [vinyl] SK Kakraba – Songs of Paapieye (Awesome Tapes from Africa, 2015) [vinyl] Gibran Andrade – Enterrado (Dorados Pantanos, 2017) [cassette] Tony Irving & Massimo Magee – The Fog (Astral Spirits, 2017) [cassette]
In December and January, I visited Mexico City and had the pleasure of attending an amazing concert at El Quinto Piso, a venue that inhabits the fifth floor of a parking garage. It is one of the most amazing DIY venues I have ever seen and that night it was teeming with a large crowd
Harris Eisenstadt – Woodblock Prints (No Business, 2010) [vinyl] Bennett/Welcome/Weinberg – self-titled (Renfusa, 2017) [cassette] Paula Shocron, German Lamonega, Pablo Diaz – Tensegridad (Hat Hut, 2017) Harris Eisenstadt – Whatever Will Happen That Will Also Be (No Business, 2017) Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York – Fukushima (Libra, 2017)
Keir Neuringer is one of the most exciting saxophonists to emerge in recent years and has established himself through the release of a number of records, including his monumental solo recording, Ceremonies Out of the Air, on New Atlantis in 2014. His latest record comes from the collaborative project Irreversible Entanglements, together with Camae Ayewa (known
