El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez: Cryptomnesia
Another great week of music brings new albums from El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Isis, Jon Hopkins, Nomo, Yoshida Brothers, and Pink Mountain, providing riotous prog rhythms, epic post-metal, electro-piano soundscapes, multi-ethnic funk, traditionally inspired Japanese crossovers, and avant-garde psychedelic jams. (more…)
Featuring members of NOMO, Silences (Sumire), Zing! and Eastern Blok, this newly formed improvisational outfit features four young standouts in Chicago’s jazz, rock, and electronic scenes, relying less on freeform contrast and more on repeated melodies and apparent sections. (more…)
Thirsty Ear recording artists Blink. are a beacon in the already-bright future of Chicago’s avant-jazz scene. Between holiday parties, some of us will sneak out to see the group’s grooving creations of hard-hitting alternative jazz.
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Garage a Trois
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez announces a new solo album for Stones Throw; Saul Williams speaks about the aftermath of The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust; Garage a Trois announces tour dates and posts an album preview; Don Caballero returns to the Northeast, and much more.
NOMO, the alternative Afrobeat collective from Ann Arbor, Michigan, march es to its own beat, or more accurately, to the beat of four different percussionists.
Led by the lanky, baby-faced founder and composer Elliot Bergman, the nine-piece multi-ethnic/gender brigade is a mash-up of cultural and musical influences.
Defying classification to create an Afrobeat/funk/electronic hybrid (think Remain in Light-era Talking Heads with the sensibilities of Fela Kuti), the band has old-school jazz purists, hipsters, and indie rockers cocking an ear and taking notice. (more…)
