BLACKHOLES AND MODULATIONS (www.ephemeraensemble.com) 8/10 Ephemera, always outward-reaching conceptually, has now expanded in size from a trio to a quartet with the addition of violist Carl St Jacques, and the sonic options have grown exponentially. As on the band’s first album, composer Keyna Wilkins takes her inspiration from the wonders…
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PROMISES (Luaka Bop/Inertia) 9/10 It’s one thing to have a 60-year career; quite another to be a force for that time. But here is Pharoah Sanders in 2021, still searching for truth, reaching for beauty and questioning the limits of his art. Electronics maestro and composer Sam Shepherd (aka Floating…
EVERYTHING AND OTHER INFINITIES (Creative Sources) 8/10 If a spider made a sound while spinning a web (beyond the odd arachnid expletive) it may resemble May as Well Be Infinity, a Sam Gill piece in which skittering improvising unwinds to a wispy dialogue between his own alto and Phillippa Murphy-Haste’s…