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Fire! Orchestra - Echoes (2023) The fire! Project

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The ‘Blue series’, directed by Matthew Shipp f $The ‘Blue series’, directed by Matthew Shipp for the label Thirsty Ear, deserves a thorough reevaluation and study. Starting in the early noughties, it bravely promoted a pioneeristic intermingling of jazz, hiphop and electronica - think of fusion for the age of Blade Runner. I think the series trickled down to an end over the years, there’s 97 entries listed on discogs under the heading and I must have listened to only a small fraction of them. There’s little to guide you online: recommendations on the Perfect sound forever webzine but little else. The very website of thirsty ear is out of date, news ending in September 2019. I read that some of the Blue Series releases were clunky, some good, some genial, as you would expect when you open up to creative experiments. Craig Taborn’s ‘junk magic’ release (2004), cover pictured above, belongs to the genial end of the spectrum. Jazz critic Nate Chinen summed up the achievements of this record, a rewarding blend of Taborn’s well established jazz identity with challenging, new electronic styles and sonorities in a convincing unity and original musical expression. It’s music you couldn’t find anywhere else before, or after: ‘What Taborn does is infallibly organic, even when he’s performing radical reconstructive surgery’. In 2020 Junk magic, now a band, released a sort of follow-up ‘Compass confusion’ - we wait for further developments. @craigtaborn #creativemusic #junk-magic #radiopeng @m_shipp1969 #thirstyearrecordings #blueseriescontinuum #blueseries #jazz$

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Antipop consortium vs Matthew Shipp - 2003/ Shipp

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One of the few records I bought and left unwrapped

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