NEW RELEASES BY TODD SICKAFOOSE & JEFF GAUTHIER OUT TODAY!
On Tiny Resistors, bassist and composer Todd Sickafoose matches violinist/looper Andrew Bird and iconic singer Ani DiFranco with his 8-piece New York band (with Skerik and Adam Levy) to create a jazz record with the muscle and scope of an indie-rock orchestra. The music evokes images: the mysterious flora of a future epoch, a secret message scribbled in invisible ink, an exodus of buzzing bees, and the silent sadness of an underwater piano, drowned in the waters of Lake Pontchartrain. It is these visions, and others, that inspire the 11 original compositions on Tiny Resistors, Sickafoose's third and most lushly-produced release to date.
House of Return, Jeff Gauthier's 5th recording as a leader, moves effortlessly from moody acoustic jazz to creative new music, to skronk fusion and electronic space jam. Voted a "Rising Star" as violinist and producer in the 2007 Downbeat Critics Poll, Gauthier continues his subversive plot to destroy all musical boundaries. House of Return features Wilco guitarist Nels Cline, drummer Alex Cline, pianist David Witham, and bassist Joel Hamilton.
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