THRU Magazine Archive
Snail Meets West is two lo-fi songwriters nodding to Ornette. On the album’s download page the credits read, “Recorded in loving memory of Ornette Coleman.” The legendary pioneer of “free jazz” died last year. The album is free improvisation, naturally, but the unlikely combo of piano and drums by Dan West and Azalia Snail, respectively, […]
New Download at Union Pole via Butte County Free Music Society. I’m in a band just like Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble, so watching Talentless White Lady (the Video pt 3] felt familiar. Some old freaks sitting around an apartment making low-level noise — six-pack of beer on the table, chips, and miscellaneous musical and atonal instruments strewn […]
A Posthumous Review of Blackstar by David Bowie. On January 7th, the academic journal Nature published historic evidence that will push physicists in new directions concerning large-amplitude oscillations in black holes. These oscillations, the bright and massive energy flow of black hole V404 Cygni, were for the first time observed using ground telescopes. Black holes are […]
Jessika Smith’s Big Band Hits a Milestone for PJCE Records I remember the first time that I listened to Miles Davis, and it just happened to be a big band album arranged by Gil Evans, called Miles Ahead (1957). The richness of the horns struck me like nothing before. But then I can remember rediscovering […]
Photo Credit: Amani Wade Listening to Swap Meet Vol. 2, released this month on Proximal Records. For a mixtape described as the result of “sketches, procrastinations, accidents and lazy afternoons,” by producers Wake and Sahy Uhns of Proximal Records, Swap Meet Vol. 2 is a surprisingly potent and satisfying collection of eclectic beats from start to finish. […]