New albums and old masters take the spotlight as we preview upcoming albums by Daniel Carter, Nicole Mitchell, Alexander Hawkins, Weston Olencki & Anna Webber, and continue our traversal of Dai Fujikura’s new album of East-meets-West with a composition for Japanese biwa. Meanwhile, Apartment House revisits Pauline Oliveros, the Maneri/Léandre/Taborn trio purveys its unusual variation on the piano trio format, Jesper Nordin screams for 15 minutes, Djuro Živković channels Orthodox mysticism, and Anna Meredith straddles stylistic borders.
Our 50 years ago feature checks in on the secondary market for fusion music as it stood in August 1973 with help from John McLaughlin and his mentor Miles Davis. We also dust off an obscure Luc Ferrari piece from that same timeframe which demonstrates the continuing influence of French acousmatic music on contemporary electronic montage praxis, as evinced by the latest album from our favorite Manchurian solo artist, Yikii.
