New Releases
It’s the weekly dilemma: what new releases do I play on my show? KUCI’s ever-expanding music library offers no shortage of tracks to pick from, but I need something that speaks to me. While browsing our rock genre selections, I came across FAKE MOON, the second album by Canadian band Cleopatrick (stylized as cleopatrick) consisting […]
Joe Lovano/Marilyn Crispell/Carmen Castaldi Trio – Tapestry – (ECM) Lovano is among the most revered saxophonists in jazz. Thirty years with Paul Motian after starting with Woody Herman and Mel Lewis, collaborations with maybe jazz’s finest pianist, Hank Jones, master arranger and dean of third stream music (jazz/classical admixture), Gunther Schuller, and avant garde master […]
Joyce Manor – Million Dollars To Kill Me – (Epitaph Records) Joyce Manor is a Punk Rock/Emo band from Torrance, CA. Their highly anticipated new album entitled Million Dollars To Kill Me, which is the band’s third full length release to be put out by Epitaph Records (as well as their fifth full length release […]
by Hobart Taylor The BABA Orchestra – Another Ride on the Elephant Slide – ( Thirsty Owl Records) Composer/conductor Lauren Elizabeth Baba has staked out her corner of the Stravinsky inflected jazz rock that critics like to call Zappaesque. Zappa was definitely a popularizer of this admixture, but artists from Don Ellis to Roscoe Mitchell […]
by: Jarett Lovell Lord Echo – Harmonies – (Soundway Records) Instrumentalist, producer, and engineer at World of Sound Studios, Echo’s sound combines elements of reggae/dub, soul, Latin and disco. Harmonies opens with a beautiful, slow, soulful piece as a subtle reggae rhythm and dubby bass wallpapers almost falsetto soulful vocals. “The Sweetest Meditation” (#3) is […]
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