Akinmusire, Ambrose - Honey From A Winter Stone (CD) Tasjan Tasjan Tasjan (Indie Exclusive

Akinmusire, Ambrose - Honey From A Winter Stone (CD) Tasjan Tasjan Tasjan (Indie ExclusiveCOMPACT DISC (CD) The album, which Ambrose calls a "self portrait," features improvisational vocalist Kokayi, pianist Sam Harris, Chiquitamagic on synthesizer, drummer Justin Brown, and the Mivos Quartet (violinist Olivia Deprato and Maya Bennardo, violist Victor Lowrie Tafoya, cellist Tyler Borden). Akinmusire also says, "In many respects this entire work is inspired by and is an homage to the work of the composer Julius Eastman and his organic music

In the threshing of love's distortions and shimmerings

9 Holy Water Hangover

Talib Kweli &Timan Family Choir

” “Emotionally raw and intimate

Following the success of 2018's 21st Century Liability and 2020's weird

They just played

Parallel Lines

bluesy love ballads laden with longing nostalgia

campfire lullabies and sometimes frantic buzzsaw tunes

The alienated might gaze through panes of glass eternally

Flynn and his then-roommate

” and a stripped-back rendition of The Chi-lites’ “There Will Never Be Any Peace (Until God Is Seated at the Conference Table)