chamber

Continuing yesterday’s post : Ben Allison’s Think Free is supposedly a move away from chamber jazz, but as a first time listener it still feels like chamber jazz with a touch of the midwest:

From Oakland, California, Edmund Welles: The Bass Clarinet Quartet invented and engineered their so-called “heavy chamber music”. Four bass clarinettes and no other instruments! Debut review from our friend Caglar Kanzik / Etrafta.

Released last month on the ever-amazing 12 Rec netlabel Through All These Years of Trying To Belong is the collaborative work of netlabel veteran Emil Klotzsch and bass clarinettist Ruediger Krey.

It’s been a long time since we last heard of Final Fantasy’s Owen Pallett. The eloquent singer-songwriter has a new ep called Spectrum, 14th Century on Blocks Recording Club, a Toronto artist-collective label. You’ll be quite happy to know that he can still craft good offkilter pop songs.

Led by French musicians Michel Villar and Ombeline Chardes, Les Fragments de la Nuit is a five piece neoclassical chamber orchestra which composes film scores for people who live like its Halloween all the time.

Oy! Back from what seems to be the last vacation of this summer. Let’s end the one week drought with one of the best albums of 2008, from the powerhouse sextet of the downtown scene (which I’ve been holding back since April).