Starting a #music thread to share the music I've loved this year. Whether or not it was actually released this year.
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As a clarinet player myself, Anat Cohen has been such an inspiration. She's been called the greatest living clarinet jazz player, for good reason! I had an opportunity to see her live at SFJazz this year. Took my breath away.
This year, she released Quartetinho. Listen to it here:
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Cuban big band Orquesta Akokán's 2021 album '16 Rayos' has been playing on repeat all of 2022 and will probably continue well through the next year.
Fearless and intimate are the best words for this album.
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The guitarist Jun Xiao is the first Chinese musician to have an album on Blue Note. There's a bit of emo, trip hop, rock... I love it.
There was a big band x Chinese folk x jazz scene in China in the 20s, you can still see snippets of it in Shanghai. But the contemporary stuff, I want to learn more about. Jun Xiao is a sterling place to start.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/atypical-airship/1644243906
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Tom Skinner's "Voices of Bishara" EP is a winner if you're a fan of his other work on Sons of Kemet. Also moving, a little dissonant, but always beautfiul
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billy woods' Aethiopes: one of the best hiphop albums this year, for sure. Poetic, brave and meaningful, like great hiphop is.
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@skinnylatte if you haven't heard it, I think his newer one Maps with Kenny Segal is great too, especially the jazz-heavy tracks which have a splintered, surreal sound to them. And he's on Shabaka Hutchings' Kofi Flexx project, and apparently Shabaka will be on his next album under a pseudonym, that's a cool pairing (Shabaka is also on that Tom Skinner album you posted of course)
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@mrcompletely Thank you! Will check it out
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Figured I'd poke my head in at this point to congratulate you on what (for me) is a finefine music thread.
Et pour la charmante épouse, mes félicitations pour s'être associée à cette personne manifestement très intelligente...
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@tuban_muzuru @mrcompletely thanks for listening and sharing!