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Shadows of Tomorrow + Brain Produces Electrical
Mats Gustafsson & Joachim Nordwall SINGLE - 7 INCH 12,38 €
J.M. STAFF PICKS
Shadows of Tomorrow + Brain Produces Electrical
Mats Gustafsson & Joachim Nordwall SINGLE - 7 INCH 12,38 €Artist of the Month
Barney Wilen
Born in Nice, Barney Wilen’s (1937-1996) career was boosted in 1957 when he worked with Miles Davis on the soundtrack Ascenseur pour l’échafaud. In 1959, Wilen wrote his two soundtracks Un témoin dans la ville and Jazz sur scène with Kenny Clarke. He also wrote a soundtrack for Roger Vadim’s film Les liaisons dangereuses two years later, working with Thelonious Monk. Wilen returned to composing for French films in the 1980s and 1990s. In the mid-to-late 1960s, he became interested in rock, and recorded an album dedicated to Timothy Leary. Wilen toured in Japan for the first time in 1990. He also worked with punk rockers before returning to jazz in the 1990s. Wilen played with modern jazz musicians until his death in 1996. He died of cancer in Paris at the age of 59.
Label of the Month
Elemental Music
Founded in 2012 by the American producer Zev Feldman and Spanish producer Jordi Soley, Elemental Music is dedicated to getting out-of-print albums and new archival discoveries into the hands and ears of jazz lovers around the world, and each release will feature deluxe packaging, newly-remastered recordings, and well documented notes with essays from the most recognized jazz journalists in the world, such as Nat Hentoff, Ira Gitler, Ashley Kahn, and Bob Blumenthal. In addition to several series of reissues of classic labels such as Blue Note, Concord or Xanadu, Elemental Music is also releasing newly discovered archival or out-of-print gems of other classic music genres as Soul, Funk, Blues, Rock, Folk & Brazilian Music.
Record of the Month
Archie Shepp & Jason Moran
Let My People Go
Let My People Go collects seven tracks that Shepp, the iconic saxophonist, activist and artistic polymath, and Moran, arguably the most imaginative pianist of his generation, recorded together in a series of live concerts between 2017 and 2018. You wouldn’t know that from first listen. The pain and fury they evoke in the two spirituals (“Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” and “Go Down, Moses”) that make up the center of the record resound with the cries of justice heard over this past summer in the wake of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd. As Moran lays down a harmonic bed streaked with Alice Coltrane-esque divine flame, Shepp blows and sings in a voice that cracks constantly; whether from age or heartbreak, it’s devastating either way.