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Surya Botofasina: Ashram Sun
by Gareth Thompson
In the early 1980s, Alice Coltrane built an ashram on fifty acres in the Santa Monica hills. A space for musical practise and Hindu studies, it closed in 2017 and was burned down by wildfires a year later. As a child, Surya Botofasina grew up there with his mother amid mountains, veggie food, peace lessons and devotional chants. For this album, he returns in spirit to the childhood home that still inspires him. Ashram Sun was produced by ...
Continue ReadingMax Gerl: Tbilisi
by Phillip Woolever
In a four-song display of highly skilled writing and musicianship, Max Gerl provides deep liftoff points for a versatile quartet to roll through thirty-three minutes of distinctly different pieces in a widely comprehensive range of jazz contexts. The songs share similar length and instrumental dexterity, but that's about it. In Gerl's thematic landscape, most uncommon ground is prime musical territory. “Tbilisi" is a sax-based romp that swings for the fences with a big band aesthetic. Aaron Shaw delivers ...
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