Art. Word. Thought.
RIP
1967 | 2019
Cassius, “See Me Now”
Cassius, “Fame”
Etienne De Crecy, “Prix Choc”
Phoenix, “1901”
Cat Power, “Manhattan”
Sébastien Tellier, “La Ritournelle”
as mere impression, and fraction, of Zdar’s incredible body of work…
From Brutalism
on Astrolab Recordings
From Flamagra
Released today on Warp Records
Film directed by Steven Ellison & David Firth
Flying Lotus, “Fire is Coming” (feat. David Lynch)
[full track]
From 5
out today on Forever Living Originals
From the recent 2nd
on Dots Per Inch
From Designer
released today on Flying Nun Records and 4AD
From U.F.O.F
out May 3, on 4AD
From Little Simz’s Grey Area
on Age 101 / AWOL
From the recent Ribbons
on Warp
The flavorful new single from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
on Sub Pop
from the Works #1 EP
on Optimo Music
In modern movie terminology, “epic” usually just means long, crowded and grandiose. Birds of Passage (2019), Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra’s follow-up to their astonishing, hallucinatory, Oscar-nominated Embrace of the Serpent, earns the label in a more honest and rigorous manner. Parts of the story are narrated by a blind singer — a literally Homeric figure — and the story itself upholds Ezra Pound’s definition of the epic as “a poem containing history.” It’s about how the world changes, about how individual actions and the forces of fate work in concert to bring glory and ruin to a hero and his family. [Read more…]
Featuring Moko Goto
on Beats in Space
from the Time For Us ep
on Wolf + Lamb Records
Everything horror writers and filmmakers have stolen from Hebrew mysticism gets stolen right back by the Israeli writer-director team of Yoav and Doron Paz in The Golem (2019). A well-crafted and idiosyncratic supernatural thriller, the film plays like a mix of Frankenstein, The Witch, and some of the Coen brothers’ more explicitly Jewish movies.
From Outer Peace
Out today on Carpark Records
Toro y Moi
on Carpark Records
Chuck D is at Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, tonight with a new body artwork. Exhibition review is forthcoming:
https://subliminalprojects.com/exhibitions/chuck-d/
“Kool Thing” is from Goo
on Geffen Records
Coltrane, who recently saw his latest posthumous release go metaphorically gold — i.e. sanctioned by the Ameri-Grecian/Bacchanalian Gods of Jazz — would have been proud of his dear friend’s latest release: Eric Dolphy’s Musical Prophet, reviewed yesterday by Henry Cherry.
Dolphy’s is indeed a fine and wonderful new release, yet/and with all due respect I hence put forth Zeus, who, yay, sanctioned or obliterated all other sounds of this epic era in Jazz. Here, Coltrane’s “Equinox,” where McCoy Tyner (who, by the gracious hands of those same breath-giving gods, is still with us, and still playing!!) lays down perhaps thee most spare and lovey piano solos ever put to tape, nor to ears nor time fore or since.