The Beloved Music is the most thoroughly realized blueprint for a post-hardcore take on improvised jazz to date from the duo of legendarily long-serving New England saxophonist Paul Flaherty and young firebrand drummer Chris Corsano. Forsaking the call and response modes of countless improvising ensembles, the duo deal more in a simultaneity of sound, an elemental non-stop gush of ideas, rhythms and epiglottal forms that at points feels like a small-group response to the orchestral conceptions of the Peter...   [ read more ]

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Two decades after her moment in the sun as an anti-folk chanteuse and setting aside the engaging homegrown chamber pop of her Garage Orchestra album (at least for the time being), Cindy Lee Berryhill returns with a set of what she calls anti-country with her fifth studio album, Beloved Stranger. The anti-country moniker fits this music well enough -- much as anti-folk was about capturing the immediacy and spirit of folk without the trappings that had come to weigh it down, these songs focus on the home tru...   [ read more ]

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"Lou Rhodes is best known as the outrageously distinctive and talented vocalist from the electronic duo Lamb (with Andy Barlow). Beloved One was released on her own Infinite Bloom label in the U.K. in 2006, and was short-listed for England's distinctive and prestigious Mercury Prize. Beloved One stands in stark contrast to Rhodes' work with Lamb. More often than not she's accompanied by an acoustic guitar -- her own -- strings, minimal organic percussion, a piano here and there, acoustic double bass, and m...   [ read more ]

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