Excellent news from (and for) the jazz microcosm: trumpeter and Berklee graduate Takuya Kuroda is back with Fly Moon Die Soon, his fifth album. Piri Piri (from his album The Rising Son) was our first encounter with Takuya Kuroda’s musical expression. This was already six years ago. As his album...
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Music featured this week:
Caitlin Pasko, Quiet Weather
Fall is our favorite season, and what we love the most in the world is to welcome it with the warmth that’s left from the summer.
Caitlin Pasko’s Greenhouse is an album of grace, intimacy and delicate surprises, containing the soft, embracing warmth you’ll need in the following months. From the press release:
In 2017, Pasko set out on long walks alone throughout Brooklyn, and during these walks she often felt a displaced, out-of-body sensation, as if she were floating outside of herself.
This is how Quiet Weather will make you feel, as long as you don’t miss out on the whole Greenhouse experience, of course.
For more music released on Whatever’s Clever, read our interview of Dan Knishkowy (Adeline Hotel).
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In 2016, Holland House Books released Evan Guilford-Blake’s American Blues. Four years have passed since, but once we got invited to dive into it, the notion of time definitely disappeared. Time definitely flew by once we started reading the five stories forming the book. Seduced by the narrative and the...
Dan Drohan (for You’re a Crusher / drocan! out on June 26) – ITW #26
On June 26, drummer Dan Drohan releases You’re a Crusher / drocan!, his not-so-solo project in the form of a double album. This forthcoming album is the kind of creative work made to be enjoyed from A to Z without interruption. Not because the tracks are inaccessible, but because tasting them...
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Leni Stern (‘4’ album, out June 19th) – ITW #25
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Sam Reese (author of Come The Tide) – ITW #24
Sam Reese and his book Come The Tide (Platypus Press) made an excellent impression on our sensibility a few weeks ago, and we couldn’t leave things at a stalemate. In this interview, guests Ornette Coleman and Silvia Plath enrich Sam’s thoughtful reflections and unusual takes on the pleasure of writing...
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