The new FIRE! album, defeat, has been released February 19, 2021, on Rune Grammofon. It features the usual trio (Mats Gustafsson, Johan Berthling, and Andreas Werliin), plus Goran Kajfes and Mats Åleklint. It was recorded in October 2019 and February 2020 in Copenhagen (The Village Recording).
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Jesup Wagon is the new album by tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, with the Red Lily Quintet (bassist William Parker, drummer Chad Taylor, cornetist Kirk Knuffke, and cellist Chris Hoffman), which was recorded, mixed, and mastered in late 2020 at Park West Studios, in Brooklyn, New York. Jesup Wagon was released on May 7, 2021, by TAO Forms.
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Here is our full review of the 10-CDs box set released by William Parker, Migration of Silence into and out of the Tone World. As William Parker acknowledges, this is the music of all the musicians who took part in the project, and who have dedicated their lives to being “music” itself.
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descension (Out of Our Constrictions) by Natural Information Society with Evan Parker was released on the 16th of April 2021 on Eremite Records (& Aguirre Records in Europe). The album was recorded live in London, United Kingdom (Cafe OTO), on July 9, 2019.
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Celebration is the latest piano-drums duo album by Irène Schweizer and Hamid Drake. Celebration was released on April 16, 2021. The album was recorded live in Nickelsdorf, Austria (at the 40th Festival for Free and Improvised Music).
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The second album of Anna Högberg Attack, Lena is a must-have free-jazz album, recorded in Stockholm, Sweden (Atlantis Studio), between December 16-17, 2019.
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