Lars Gotrich
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On Kali Malone's "Living Torch II," distortion and feedback reshape mourning into triumph.
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On the guitarist's first string quartet composition, she comes with a dramatic precision.
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At his last recorded concerts, the avant-garde outlaw's seemingly disparate sound worlds came together. -
OHYUNG is better known as a producer of hyperactive hip-hop and pop music, but on a new double cassette plays with shapes of tender ambient sound.
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Lucier changed the way we think about sound through monumental works like I Am Sitting in a Room and Music on a Long Thin Wire.
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"Jesus Maria" simmers the regal, brass-forward Christmas carol composed by Carla Bley into a sunset.
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A deep listening experience from the ambient-jazz quartet.
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WBGO's Nate Chinen was joined by saxophonist Branford Marsalis and harpist Brandee Younger in a live conversation about this recently unearthed live recording.
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Resonant gongs, vibraphone, fluttering trumpet and groaning, synth-like transmissions from Aarset's guitar coalesce over the seven minutes of "Manta Ray."
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"To Kill A Wind-Up Bird," off of multi-instrumentalist and composer Patrick Shiroishi's upcoming solo album Hidemi, layers saxophone and woodwinds in a frantic, yet controlled splatter.
