From Blue Dawn – Blue Nights, released just months ago . . .
on HighNote Records
♠
Wallace Roney
1960 | 2020
Recorded live at Jazz Club Moods in Zurich, on the 15.05.2018
RIP
In Memory of Wallace Roney: “Venus Rising”
Cinema Disordinaire: A List Of Infectiously Strange Must-See Films For The End Times
Cinema Disordinaire, aka Riot Cinema, is a uniquely selective entry of films that showcase the singular in all of cinema, the seminal, and the utterly sublime come to screen this past half century. For these particularly disordinary times, where self-isolation is our newly mandated norm, we offer up a distilled list from Cinema Disordinaire’s five-decade accounting. These are must-see films — if you’re a lover of cutting-edge or entirely uncommon cinema — beginning with the latest (2019) and working backwards to high cult-bizarro, 1972. Soderbergh’s Contagion, the current streaming darling of this moment, is surely not amongst these greats, but an infectious strangeness runs throughout them all. They are, in other words, Riot Material’s favorites, offered up for those with a latently wicked heart. Below you’ll find links that take you to the original reviews of each film. Enjoy: [Read more…]
Jazz in LA: Arturo and Adam O’Farrill, Live From Culver City
The Live Show: Arturo and Adam O’Farrill, 28 March 2020
Please scroll to 8 minutes into the video above; technical setup prior
Please scroll to 8 minutes into the video above; technical setup prior
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Riot Material is proud to present, and stream live this evening, legendary Jazz pianist Arturo O’Farrill and his son, Trumpeter and NPR critic’s fave Adam O’Farrill, performing together in their living room, Saturday, 28 March beginning at 6pm Pacific Standard Time. This will be a very special evening where father and son, two exceptionally fine men and notable greats on their instruments, burn down the so-called house while also lighting fire to our hearts and imaginations, the sonic and creative landscapes of our minds, all in ways where we never have to leave our homes. Dine in with a special dish, either homemade or delivered-in from your favorite local restaurant, click onto the Riot Material homepage / riotmaterial.com, and voilà, sit back and enjoy!
In Memory of Genesis P-Orridge: “Hamburger Lady”
From Throbbing Gristle’s D.o.A: The Third and Final Report
Hamburger Lady
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Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
1950 – 2020
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Live from Turin, 29 June 2005
Godspeed!
Afro-Future Jazz From Shabaka And The Ancestors: “Orb”
from Wisdom of Elders
on Brownswood [Read more…]
LA’s Lynn and John Tejada, Reggie Watts and Wajatta
La Corona | Connecting the Community | LA
LA Power-Couple Extraordinaire, Lynn and John Tejada, along with John’s collaborative cohort, Reggie Watts, make up a loose team of artists and publicists worthy of our attention and celebration. Lynn’s company, Green Galactic, is at the forefront of representing and promoting some of the best artists working in Los Angeles today. If you’re ever in need of a publicist, an intelligent strategist, a good friend, Lynn is your Woman! John and Reggie, both exceptional men individually but together are nothing less than Wajatta, have just released their second album, Don’t Let Get You Down, on Brainfeeder. Here is but one of many fine tracks from this latest release, “Little Man”:
Little Man [Read more…]
Inspiriting Lightness In Lone’s “Blue Moon Tree”
from Ambivert Tools Volume Four
on R&S Records
Youth Is No Excuse! But For The Mysterines’ “Hormone”
from the Take Control EP
newly released on Pretty Face Recordings
The Throttling, Throat-Stopping Beat of “Stressy”
Hanni El Khatib
from the forthcoming Flight (out May 15)
on Innovative Leisure
Connecting The Community
Riot Material magazine, like so many of us at the moment, is cash-strapped and unable to pay for new content in the short run, so I wanted to reach out to friends in editorial around the country and internationally to offer paid writing gigs to RM’s outstanding team of writers and critics: Artillery, Art in America, Frieze, Juxtapoz, ArtForum, Aesthetica, Little White Lies, Fangoria, Cinema Scope, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spin, Vibe, DownBeat, JazzTime, Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Review of Books, Paris Review, Atlantic Monthly… to call out but a few. You can’t go wrong with the Riot Material regulars listed, with links to their work in the magazine, below. Feel free to check in with me here for an introduction to any of the writers below to review art (LA, NYC, London), film, literature, music, et all: [Read more…]
The Twin Towers: Roy Nathanson And Arturo O’Farrill Live In LA
A Deadeye Through The Fist: King Krule’s “Cellular”
from Man Alive!
on now XL Recordings/Matador Records
Lemon Honey’s Bitter Lucky In King Krule’s “Stoned Again”
from Man Alive!
on XL Recordings/Matador Records
The Gaslamp Killer’s Yamaya-esque “Nissim” (with Amir Yaghmai)
from Breakthrough
on Brainfeeder
Dr. Cornel West Speaks Black Prophetic Fire
An always-welcomed dose of Cornel West, who is the focus of Arturo O’Farrill’s The Cornel West Concerto, a timely recording to be released this week. O’Farrill is onstage tonight with Jacques Lesure and His Soulful Cohorts here in Los Angeles, at Los Balcones, 9pm. Meantime, below is the Professor’s speech that inspired O’Farrill’s composition, which saw its debut at the Apollo Theater with the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra.
Dr. West and his “Black Prophetic Fire” speech, at Town Hall Seattle:
Kiyoshi Yamaya’s Mesmeric “Osorezan (Ghost Mountain)”
from Ryukyu 琉球
on Nippon Columbia
Documents Of Love
by C von Hassett & Rachel Reid Wilkie
From Documents of Love, an exhibition of solo and collaborative works by C von Hassett and Rachel Reid Wilkie at Hosfelt Gallery, NYC.
Here, the short film “Documents of Love,” which showed alongside the couple’s languorous wall of poetry, rooms of paintings and their combined photography. The short captures a prodigious and productive moment in the East Village, NYC, bookended by a transformative journey through the Amazon and an eventual migration West: to Los Angeles; the small village of Olancha, California, which sits high in the Northern Mojave, just below the Eastern Sierras; and Rimrock/Pioneertown, the glowing third point in the now Golden Triangle of the Hassett-Wilkie clan.
Not For The First Ninth: Nick Walters And The Mercuries Of Selectable Time
“So Long Chef”
from the Active Imaginations release
out today on 22a [Read more…]
Polish Duo Ubek And Their “Problem of Subjectivity”
from the Ubek II release
(track includes Red Dawn Chorus / Red Dawn Reprisal)
out today on Sucata Tapes
She’s A Smasher: Dry Cleaning’s “Magic of Meghan”
An ode to The Duchess of Sussex
from the Sweet Princess EP
Self-Released