Artist: Jeff Platz, Fabio Delvo, John McLellan & Kit Demos
Title: Differential Equations
Label: Skycap Records
Genre: improv/jazz/electronics
CD Review by Dawoud Kringle
Artist: Holly Ann Cordero
Title: Truculently Audacious
Label: See The Sound Studios
Genre: jazz/classical
Review by Dawoud Kringle
“Born,” the first track on the CD opens with a synth pad over which Cordero’s vocals invoke a brooding minor melody; effectively ripping to pieces the preconception of this being your typical jazz recording.
Artist: Liquid Casing
Title: A Separate/Divide
Label: self released
Genre: Rock/Progressive Rock/Post-Punk
Review by Dawoud Kringle
With the first chords of “A Path of Footprints Forged in the Midnight Sun,” the opening track of A Separate/Divide, Liquid Casing goes for the throat.
Artist: Comfort Food
Title: Dig It
Label: self released
Genre: experimental-funk-jazz-noise-progressive
CD Review by Matt Cole
Dig In is a recent EP by the Chicago bass and drums duo Comfort Food. The band consists of Daniel Wolff on bass and vocals, and Jake Marshall on drums. The group describes their sound as experimental noise jazz; Dig In also has funk, psychedelia, and blues as part of the recipe. Dig In is a promising appetizer from a young band, still a little raw around the edges, which will leave the listener hungry for more. (OK, enough with the food analogies…)
Text by Dawoud Kringle
New York mainstay Thomas Doncker was recently asked to be the musical director for Diablo Love (a love story by Mando Alvarado, directed by Alfred Preisser, featuring live music that features Dockner’s re-imagining of songs by Howling Wolf – a.k.a. Chester Arthur Burnet. It will be presented at Central Park SummerStage, in honor of Wolf’s 103rd birthday), and released an EP of music by Howling Wolf. And in doing so, he was taking on a great burden.
Artist: Tomas Doncker Band
Title: Howlin’ Wolf EP
Format: CD & download
Label: self released
Genre: Blues/Global Soul/Future Roots
Release date: July 2, 2013
Streaming link: http://tomasdonckerband.bandca
Produced by Tomas Doncker & James Dellatacoma for True Groove
