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RIEKO OKUDA / MIA DYBERG - Glasscut LPLTD TO 125 copies handnumbered. An alto saxophone and acoustic piano engage in an intimate musical dialogue, reflecting on the current state of improvised music. Okuda and Dybergs album unites two artists at the peak of their musical collaboration, deconstructing jazz history into shimmering fragments, reassembling them in new forms that deliberately move away from traditional references. The music incorporates diverse influencesglimpses of classical

sinuous grooves

The new label's maiden release was Black Magic Man

but it's all solo apart from that

Ready or not

60 years after “Grapefruit” first appeared

without extraneous gabble was revelatory

Maybe in the last seventy years or so the loveless mistrust of fucks given has become the cruel

” a lost contrast to the later verse where Jenkins’ likens herself to the sculptor

calmly balancing repeatedly at every step

a new album

The same poise is displayed on the covers Kass chooses — the Kinks’ “Strangers” (a Dave Davies masterpiece from Lola) and Jennifer Castle’s “Nature” (a beautiful Cohen-esque song from her Pink City LP) — creating a very sumptuous whole

and a country on the verge of either exploding or imploding

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