FROM THE HEART: Miles Davis - "Bitches Brew" (1970)

Miles Davis - "Bitches Brew" (1970)

REFERÊNCIA: Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr.

22/04/1922 - 05/01/1979

EUA - Mexico

Charles Mingus

http://mingusmingusmingus.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mingus

PLAY: Ambrose Akinmusire, Idris Ackamoor, Julian Lage, Laurie Anderson, Nicole Mitchell

2018 em beleza e sutileza:

AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE

"Acclaimed trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire breaks new ground with his 4th Blue Note album "Origami Harvest", a surprisingly fluid study in contrasts that pits contemporary classical wilding against deconstructed Hip Hop, with bursts of left-field jazz, funk, spoken word and soul, with help from the Mivos Quartet and art-rap expatriate Koll AD (Das Racist), along with pianist Sam Harris, drummer Marcus Gilmore and saxophonist Walter Smith III"

Ambrose Akinmusire

Walter Smith III (sax)

Sam Harris (piano)

Marcus Gilmore (bateria)

Ambrose Akinmusire - "Origami Harvest" (2018)

IDRIS ACKAMOOR

“I wanted to use folklore, fantasy and drama as a warning bell. The songs explore global themes that are important to me and to us all: the rise of catastrophic climate change and our lack of concern for our planet, loss of innocence and separation... but positive themes too, the healing power of music, collective action and the simple beauty of nature.”

Idris Ackamoor (vocal, sax)

Sandra Poindexter (vocal, violino)

David Molina (vocal, guitarra)

Skyler Stover (vocal, baixo)

Bradie Speller (vocal, congas)

Johann Polzer (bateria)

Idris Ackamoor And The Pyramids - "An Angel Fell" (2018)

JULIAN LAGE

"Modern Lore" finds Lage playfully flipping the script he followed on his acclaimed 2016 Mack Avenue debut, Arclight. That album - produced, like "Modern Lore", by Lage’s friend and collaborator, the singer-songwriter Jesse Harris - was his first trio set on electric guitar and found Lage inspired by the sounds and the attitude of the freewheeling, pre-bebop jazz era, when, as he puts it, "country music and jazz and swing were in this weird wild-west period." This time he incorporates the sensibility, if not the outright sound, of early rock and roll, a similarly hybrid form driven by rhythm, personality and a passion for the electric guitar"

Julian Lage (guitarra)

Scott Colley (baixo)

Kenny Wollesen (bateria)

Julian Lage - "Modern Lore" (2018)

LAURIE ANDERSON

"I’ve always been fascinated by the complex relationship of words and music whether in song lyrics, supertitles or voice over. In Landfall, instruments initiate language through our new text software, erst. The blend of electronic and acoustic strings is the dominant sound of Landfall. Much of the music in this work is generated from the harmonies and delays of unique software designed for the solo viola and reinterpreted for the quartet. In addition, there were elements of the optigan, a keyboard that uses information stored on optical discs."

Laurie Anderson

David Harrington (violino)

John Sherba (violino)

Hank Dutt (viola)

Sunny Yang (cello)

Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet - "Landfall" (2018)

NICOLE MITCHELL

“Imagination, especially black imagination, is a really vital and undervalued resource. It’s very clear that we can’t continue in the same direction that we’ve gone, but we need to return to the source of where imagination and creativity come from, because if we don’t have another vision then we can’t implement it, and we can’t make a different future. What makes us special as human beings is our ability to imagine things that don’t even exist yet.”

Nicole Mitchell (flauta)

Fay Victor (vocal)

Aruan Ortiz (piano)

Tomeka Reid (cello)

Nicole Mitchell - "Maroon Cloud" (2018)

FROM THE HEART: Gang Of Four - "Entertainment!" (1979)

Gang Of Four - "Entertainment!" (1979)

MUSAS: Shirley Manson

Shirley Manson

http://www.garbage.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Manson

PLAY: Behemoth, Daughters, Sumac, Thy Catafalque, Uniform

2018 ao épico extremo:

BEHEMOTH

Após o lindo e vitorioso projeto alternativo Me And The Man, Nergal retorna à maestria com seu grupo principal:

Behemoth - "I Loved You At Your Darkest" (2018)

DAUGHTERS

Possivelmente, o melhor disco de 2018:

Daughters - "You Won't Get What You Want" (2018)

SUMAC

Já referenciais num estilo extremo muito próprio, trata-se do segundo lançamento do grupo no ano, sendo o primeiro o fenomenal "American Dollar Bill - Keep Facing Sideways, You're Too Hideous To Look At Face On", ao lado de ninguém menos que Keiji Haino. Agora, eis o obrigatório sucessor de "What One Becomes", de 2016:

Sumac - "Love In Shadow" (2018)

THY CATAFALQUE

Já citados por aqui, ao tratarmos de metal vanguardista, eis o oitavo álbum deste excelente grupo europeu:

Thy Catafalque - "Geometria" (2018)

UNIFORM

Grupo americano intenso e visceral, e que, assim como o citado Sumac, lança o segundo disco do ano, sendo o primeiro, "Mental Wounds Not Healing", ao lado do também experimental e já clássico grupo The Body. Altamente recomendado:

Uniform - "The Long Walk" (2018)

FROM THE HEART: Philip Glass - "Songs From Liquid Days" (1986)

Philip Glass - "Songs From Liquid Days" (1986)

*** veja também, nesta seção: "North Star" (1977)

REFERÊNCIA: Brian May

Brian Harold May

19/07/1947

Londres (ING)

Brian May

PLAY: Death Grips, Idles, Koenjihyakkei, Messa, Thrice

Mais pérolas preciosas do ano que chega ao fim:



DEATH GRIPS

Um dos favoritos do blog, deixamos até de fora ao mencionarmos alguns lançamentos do hip hop em 2018 (aqui), já os imaginando como algo que extrapolou o estilo em experimentações e atitude:

Death Grips - "Year Of The Snitch" (2018)

IDLES

Uma "surpresa", não tanto se considerarmos que lançaram um dos ótimos discos de 2017 (aqui), mas por tão rapidamente atacarem com um novo álbum de tamanha originalidade e potência:

Idles - "Joy As An Act Of Resistance" (2018)

KŌENJIHYAKKEI

O grupo japonês, que tem suas origens no icônico Ruins, rompe com maestria um silêncio de mais de dez anos:

Kōenji Hyakkei - "Dhorimviskha" (2018)

MESSA

Banda italiana que foi pouco falada em sua estreia em 2016, com o álbum "Belfry", mas que promete ganhar a cena com este excelente segundo disco:

Messa - "Feast For The Water" (2018)

THRICE

Já tratados por aqui, lançam um disco ainda mais potente que o já ótimo anterior "To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere" (2016). Essencial para o ano:

Thrice - "Palms" (2018)