Ooioo

TAIGA 

Communication with nature is not a new theme for OOIOO. Visually, previous album art deisgns and band photos bare hidden repetitions of “o-o-i-o-o” and videos have visually featured woods of the forest above any … Read More

Howe Gelb

SNO ANGEL LIKE YOU 

SNO ANGEL is a new project from Howe Gelb, set up when he records and tours with a full gospel choir.

LIKE YOU is the name of his record here with ‘SNO … Read More

Frequency

Nicole Mitchell

“One of Chicago’s more inspiring jazz visionaries, » (Chicago Tribune), Nicole Mitchell is a creative instrumentalist, composer, bandleader and an educator. She is the founder of Black Earth Ensemble (BEE), Black Earth Strings (BES) and Tindanga Mama: groups that celebrate … Read More

Fred Anderson

FROM THE RIVER TO THE OCEAN

The closest of relationships gives its members space to expand, change, develop, and play.  Tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson and drummer Hamid Drake have just that kind of partnership, one … Read More

Extra Golden

HERA MA NONO 

Hera Ma Nono is the exhilarating sophomore effort from Kenyan and American cooperative Extra Golden. Kenyan benga music and American rock first met with a friendly handshake on the group’s 2006 debut, Ok-Oyot System, and are … Read More

Exploding Star Orchestra

WE ARE ALL FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE

In 2005, cornetist Rob Mazurek was approached by The Chicago Cultural Center and the Jazz Institute to put together a group that would represent the more contemporary / avant-garde … Read More

Eleventh Dream Day

ZEROES AND ONES

In 1988, Eleventh Dream Day’s Rick Rizzo told Greg Kot that songwriting was a kind of a “purge.” Although the music business has changed vastly around them, Zeroes and Ones shows a band whose pure intent remains … Read More

David Higgs

ATOMIC YGGDRASIL TAROT

Daniel Arcus Incus Ululat Higgs is a musician and artist from Baltimore, Maryland on whose behalf superlatives are destined to fail. It’s not that his artistic output – spanning three decades, numerous albums, … Read More

Califone

ROOT AND CROWNS

Roots and Crowns. “Uniting where you come from – your roots — with what you strive to be or what you reinvent yourself to become — crowns,” explains Califone’s Tim Rutili. “At … Read More

Bobby Conn

KING FOR A DAY

The Golden Age marks the return of Bobby Conn after a three-year hiatus. In the course of that time a lot has been written and discussed as to his whereabouts, personal … Read More