01 Sep

[ September 1th, 2023 – Pyroclastic Records: Kris Davis’ Diatom Ribbons – Live at the Village Vanguard ]

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The brilliant Grammy winning pianist and composer Kris Davis‘ Diatom Ribbons release the striking new double album Live at the Village Vanguard today, September 1, 2023 via Pyroclastic Records.

The album reunites Davis with her core collaborators from her widely heralded 2019 album Diatom Ribbons – drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, turntablist and electronic musician Val Jeanty and bassist Trevor Dunn – and adds a new voice to the mix with guitarist Julian Lage

“On Diatom Ribbons, [Kris Davis’] skills as a composer, band assembler, system builder and improviser — a musical auteur, basically — come fully into focus.” – Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times

“[Diatom Ribbons] is the most versatile and bracing jazz recording of 2019… [it] successfully combines thrilling vision and a hunger for repeat listenings.” – Will Layman, PopMatters

“Scintillating … mesmerizing… it comes when her ascension in the jazz ecosystem continues to soar.” – John Murph, DownBeat

“Diatom Ribbons is a multi-stylistic, super-eclectic extravaganza, embracing both grooves and free tempo… A cornucopia of delights.” – Andy Hamilton, The Wire

21 Oct

[ October the 28th, 2022 release via Pyroclastic Records: Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant – Séances ]

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Séances, out October 28, 2022 via Pyroclastic Records, features Mary Halvorson, Ches Smith, Anna Webber, Carla Kihlstedt, Mariel Roberts and Oscar Noriega navigating chamber-jazz-metal compositions inspired by the bizarre tales of an 18^th-century French religious sect

“ The music [Trio-Convulsant] play is not so much a fusion of styles as it is a collision of styles… If you’ve been following Trevor Dunn‘s widely varied career as a player, you know he’s got a sense of adventure.” – Sean Westergaard, AllMusic.com

“[Trio-Convulsant] hurtles from heavy to weightless and back again so quickly it’s hard to keep up… [pulling] it off with rare style and impressive improvisational rigor.” – Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader

18 Jul

[ July the 29th, 2022 release on Pyroclastic: Nate Wooley & Columbia Icefield’s – Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes ]

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Trumpeter/Composer Nate Wooley releases breathtaking second album by his singular quartet Columbia Icefield – Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes, due out July 29, 2022 via Pyroclastic Records, features Mary Halvorson, Susan Alcorn and Ryan Sawyer

“Columbia Icefield [feels like] a mixture of quiet exaltation, wild exaltation, melancholy, fear, curiosity, struggle to keep warm… the prettiest (if most progressive) campfire music ever written.” – Zachary Woolfe, New York Times

“Columbia Icefield, with its long stretches of atmosphere interrupted by jarring dissonances, [is] something weird, haunting, lonely, and endlessly fascinating.” – Michael J. West, JazzTimes

Album Release Concert Monday, July 25 at TV Eye, Brooklyn, NY