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  1. This morning's #workout #music is from Roscoe Mitchell & Moor Mother performing in 2019. It was The Art Ensemble of Chicago's "We Are On The Edge" that introduced me to Moor Mother, so I was excited to see this concert come across my feed. A must-see collaboration.

    youtube.com/live/03nA7WqStg8
    #Poetry #jazz #FreeJazz #SpokenWord #KettleBells #DumbBells #Wellness

    We Are On The Edge on #bandcamp
    artensembleofchicago.bandcamp.

  2. This morning's #workout #music is from Roscoe Mitchell & Moor Mother performing in 2019. It was The Art Ensemble of Chicago's "We Are On The Edge" that introduced me to Moor Mother, so I was excited to see this concert come across my feed. A must-see collaboration.

    youtube.com/live/03nA7WqStg8
    #Poetry #jazz #FreeJazz #SpokenWord #KettleBells #DumbBells #Wellness

    We Are On The Edge on #bandcamp
    artensembleofchicago.bandcamp.

  3. This morning's #workout #music is from Roscoe Mitchell & Moor Mother performing in 2019. It was The Art Ensemble of Chicago's "We Are On The Edge" that introduced me to Moor Mother, so I was excited to see this concert come across my feed. A must-see collaboration.

    youtube.com/live/03nA7WqStg8
    #Poetry #jazz #FreeJazz #SpokenWord #KettleBells #DumbBells #Wellness

    We Are On The Edge on #bandcamp
    artensembleofchicago.bandcamp.

  4. This morning's #workout #music is from Roscoe Mitchell & Moor Mother performing in 2019. It was The Art Ensemble of Chicago's "We Are On The Edge" that introduced me to Moor Mother, so I was excited to see this concert come across my feed. A must-see collaboration.

    youtube.com/live/03nA7WqStg8
    #Poetry #jazz #FreeJazz #SpokenWord #KettleBells #DumbBells #Wellness

    We Are On The Edge on #bandcamp
    artensembleofchicago.bandcamp.

  5. This morning's #workout #music is from Roscoe Mitchell & Moor Mother performing in 2019. It was The Art Ensemble of Chicago's "We Are On The Edge" that introduced me to Moor Mother, so I was excited to see this concert come across my feed. A must-see collaboration.

    youtube.com/live/03nA7WqStg8
    #Poetry #jazz #FreeJazz #SpokenWord #KettleBells #DumbBells #Wellness

    We Are On The Edge on #bandcamp
    artensembleofchicago.bandcamp.

  6. Saba Alizadeh & Farzané (NL/IRN) + Vehicle/Passenger (US/CW/DE)

    OCCII, Friday, October 23 at 08:30 PM GMT+2

    Saba Alizadeh

    Architect of Power Ambient

    Saba Alizadeh occupies a singular space in contemporary music ,a sonic language so distinct it seems to exist outside comparison.

    Coming from a distinguished musical lineage and shaped by more than two decades as a composer, producer, and performer, he has developed an artistic voice that merges deep cultural memory with fearless sonic experimentation.

    Across four critically acclaimed albums, he has continuously expanded the boundaries between contemporary composition, electronic music, and Persian sonic heritage.

    Having lived through defining social and political ruptures – from witnessing the fall of the Berlin Wall as a child to experiencing the Green Movement and the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran – his work carries the emotional residue of history not as commentary, but as lived memory transformed into sound.

    Emerging from Tehran’s underground electronic scene, Alizadeh forged a deeply personal language where Persian classical music, experimental electronics, archival recordings, and cinematic tension dissolve into what critics have called “Power Ambient.”

    At the center of his performances stands the Kamancheh: the ancient Persian bowed instrument whose raw, human cry he reshapes through live processing and sonic experimentation into something both ancestral and radically contemporary.

    His live sets unfold like fragments of forgotten cinema – dense, haunting, and physical. Continuously reimagining how history, memory, and resistance can breathe through modern sound.

    ”A bridge between the ancient and the contemporary” — The Wire

    ”A fresh, compelling soundscape” — Pitchfork

    ”Hope as an act of resistance” — Frankfurter Rundschau

    ”Music that feels like a cinematic unfolding of history” — Chain D.L.K.

    ”The stringed Kamancheh is a living soul and primal voice” — Veil of Sound

    "Temple of hope" Live Concert

    Watch this video on YouTube

    <a href="https://sabaalizadeh.bandcamp.com/album/temple-of-hope">Temple Of Hope by Saba Alizadeh</a>

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    Farzané

    (Farzaneh Nouri), an Iranian sound artist, creative coder, and researcher based in the Netherlands, works at the intersection of experimental music and computer science. Her ongoing practice-based research focuses on embodied knowledge in improvisational settings with machines. Embracing AI’s fundamental otherness while establishing relational connections, her practice aims at creating conditions of genuine encounter and collaborative destabilization between the artist and the machine. This speculative approach moves beyond technological determinism and cultural essentialism, exploring how human and machine intelligences might co-evolve through creative tension and collaborative aesthetic discovery.

    INSTAGRAM

    Farzané at Audiomanzia

    Watch this video on YouTube

    <a href="https://farzane.bandcamp.com/track/chiasma">CHIASMA by Farzané</a>

    VEHICLE/PASSENGER

    Ethereal yet full of raw power. A tour-de-force of artistic expression combined with an urgent message on the state of our world.

    In VEHICLE/PASSENGER we gather around thoughtful, radical poetry, as it weaves through energetically improvised pieces and delicate soundscapes. Exploring a queer perspective on body, society and improvisation. The trio reveals a unified, futuristic sound, repositioning the past, present and future of experimental music, free jazz, hip-hop, live electronics and poetry.

    “An energy and urgency without simple slogans.” – WDR, Odilo Clausnitzer

    “Vehicle/Passenger has created one of the most honest and unique recordings of 2024.” – All About Jazz, Maurice Hoge

    The Ballad of a Never-ending Elevator Accident – VEHICLE/PASSENGER – Live in Amsterdam

    Watch this video on YouTube

    M Alberto (NL/AN) – poetry , saxophones and electronics
    Lesley Mok (US) – drums and percussion
    Florian Herzog (DE) – double bass and electronics

    M. ALBERTO (they/them), is a Euro-Carribean improviser, award-winning poet and composer. Born in Curacao and currently based in the Netherlands. M.’s work is explicitly political, and always critical of colonial structures. They are one of the driving forces behind theatre collectives Boys won’t be Boys, as well as a steady collaborator in other critical productions. They have performed internationally on diverse stages and theatres from The Royal Concertgebouw and the Dutch National Opera to pop-festivalslike Sziget, Rock Werchter and Pinkpop.

    FLORIAN HERZOG, bassist and composer, is a pioneer of the German and international jazz and avant-garde scenes whose bass playing has been described by the press as “emancipated, spirited and sensitive.”

    He has worked with established greats like Theo Bleckmann, Jim Black and Nils Wogram, but also with the new generation and musicians like Anna Webber, Elias Stemeseder and Nick Dunston.

    LESLEY MOK (they/them) is a percussionist and interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY, who works in sound, installation, film, and theater. Interested in the ways social conditions shape our beings, Lesley’s work focuses on overacting humanness to explore ideas about alienness and privilege. Their work draws from queer and feminist art practices, Chinese philosophy, Caribbean folkloric musical traditions, futurist perspectives, and ancestral knowledge. Their critically acclaimed debut album ‘The Living Collection’ was awarded with a prestigious Deutscher Jazz Preis in 2024.

    INSTAGRAM

    offbeat.amsterdam/event/saba-a

  7. Saba Alizadeh & Farzané (NL/IRN) + Vehicle/Passenger (US/CW/DE)

    OCCII, Friday, October 23 at 08:30 PM GMT+2

    Saba Alizadeh

    Architect of Power Ambient

    Saba Alizadeh occupies a singular space in contemporary music ,a sonic language so distinct it seems to exist outside comparison.

    Coming from a distinguished musical lineage and shaped by more than two decades as a composer, producer, and performer, he has developed an artistic voice that merges deep cultural memory with fearless sonic experimentation.

    Across four critically acclaimed albums, he has continuously expanded the boundaries between contemporary composition, electronic music, and Persian sonic heritage.

    Having lived through defining social and political ruptures – from witnessing the fall of the Berlin Wall as a child to experiencing the Green Movement and the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran – his work carries the emotional residue of history not as commentary, but as lived memory transformed into sound.

    Emerging from Tehran’s underground electronic scene, Alizadeh forged a deeply personal language where Persian classical music, experimental electronics, archival recordings, and cinematic tension dissolve into what critics have called “Power Ambient.”

    At the center of his performances stands the Kamancheh: the ancient Persian bowed instrument whose raw, human cry he reshapes through live processing and sonic experimentation into something both ancestral and radically contemporary.

    His live sets unfold like fragments of forgotten cinema – dense, haunting, and physical. Continuously reimagining how history, memory, and resistance can breathe through modern sound.

    ”A bridge between the ancient and the contemporary” — The Wire

    ”A fresh, compelling soundscape” — Pitchfork

    ”Hope as an act of resistance” — Frankfurter Rundschau

    ”Music that feels like a cinematic unfolding of history” — Chain D.L.K.

    ”The stringed Kamancheh is a living soul and primal voice” — Veil of Sound

    "Temple of hope" Live Concert

    Watch this video on YouTube

    <a href="https://sabaalizadeh.bandcamp.com/album/temple-of-hope">Temple Of Hope by Saba Alizadeh</a>

    INSTAGRAM

    Farzané

    (Farzaneh Nouri), an Iranian sound artist, creative coder, and researcher based in the Netherlands, works at the intersection of experimental music and computer science. Her ongoing practice-based research focuses on embodied knowledge in improvisational settings with machines. Embracing AI’s fundamental otherness while establishing relational connections, her practice aims at creating conditions of genuine encounter and collaborative destabilization between the artist and the machine. This speculative approach moves beyond technological determinism and cultural essentialism, exploring how human and machine intelligences might co-evolve through creative tension and collaborative aesthetic discovery.

    INSTAGRAM

    Farzané at Audiomanzia

    Watch this video on YouTube

    <a href="https://farzane.bandcamp.com/track/chiasma">CHIASMA by Farzané</a>

    VEHICLE/PASSENGER

    Ethereal yet full of raw power. A tour-de-force of artistic expression combined with an urgent message on the state of our world.

    In VEHICLE/PASSENGER we gather around thoughtful, radical poetry, as it weaves through energetically improvised pieces and delicate soundscapes. Exploring a queer perspective on body, society and improvisation. The trio reveals a unified, futuristic sound, repositioning the past, present and future of experimental music, free jazz, hip-hop, live electronics and poetry.

    “An energy and urgency without simple slogans.” – WDR, Odilo Clausnitzer

    “Vehicle/Passenger has created one of the most honest and unique recordings of 2024.” – All About Jazz, Maurice Hoge

    The Ballad of a Never-ending Elevator Accident – VEHICLE/PASSENGER – Live in Amsterdam

    Watch this video on YouTube

    M Alberto (NL/AN) – poetry , saxophones and electronics
    Lesley Mok (US) – drums and percussion
    Florian Herzog (DE) – double bass and electronics

    M. ALBERTO (they/them), is a Euro-Carribean improviser, award-winning poet and composer. Born in Curacao and currently based in the Netherlands. M.’s work is explicitly political, and always critical of colonial structures. They are one of the driving forces behind theatre collectives Boys won’t be Boys, as well as a steady collaborator in other critical productions. They have performed internationally on diverse stages and theatres from The Royal Concertgebouw and the Dutch National Opera to pop-festivalslike Sziget, Rock Werchter and Pinkpop.

    FLORIAN HERZOG, bassist and composer, is a pioneer of the German and international jazz and avant-garde scenes whose bass playing has been described by the press as “emancipated, spirited and sensitive.”

    He has worked with established greats like Theo Bleckmann, Jim Black and Nils Wogram, but also with the new generation and musicians like Anna Webber, Elias Stemeseder and Nick Dunston.

    LESLEY MOK (they/them) is a percussionist and interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY, who works in sound, installation, film, and theater. Interested in the ways social conditions shape our beings, Lesley’s work focuses on overacting humanness to explore ideas about alienness and privilege. Their work draws from queer and feminist art practices, Chinese philosophy, Caribbean folkloric musical traditions, futurist perspectives, and ancestral knowledge. Their critically acclaimed debut album ‘The Living Collection’ was awarded with a prestigious Deutscher Jazz Preis in 2024.

    INSTAGRAM

    offbeat.amsterdam/event/saba-a

  8. ..these records, finally, are perhaps two sides of the Monk coin -- one a stretching and contortion of what was already there, one pinning #theloniusmonk to the mast of improvised music and sailing off into the whorling void. Big up yourselves, everyone concerned #jazz #freejazz #improv #musicreview

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:evocfgfx3nkoccovotpzk6zc/post/3murpvsex33t2

  9. ..these records, finally, are perhaps two sides of the Monk coin -- one a stretching and contortion of what was already there, one pinning #theloniusmonk to the mast of improvised music and sailing off into the whorling void. Big up yourselves, everyone concerned #jazz #freejazz #improv #musicreview

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:evocfgfx3nkoccovotpzk6zc/post/3murpvsex33t2

  10. ..these records, finally, are perhaps two sides of the Monk coin -- one a stretching and contortion of what was already there, one pinning #theloniusmonk to the mast of improvised music and sailing off into the whorling void. Big up yourselves, everyone concerned #jazz #freejazz #improv #musicreview

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:evocfgfx3nkoccovotpzk6zc/post/3murpvsex33t2

  11. ..these records, finally, are perhaps two sides of the Monk coin -- one a stretching and contortion of what was already there, one pinning #theloniusmonk to the mast of improvised music and sailing off into the whorling void. Big up yourselves, everyone concerned #jazz #freejazz #improv #musicreview

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:evocfgfx3nkoccovotpzk6zc/post/3murpvsex33t2

  12. ..these records, finally, are perhaps two sides of the Monk coin -- one a stretching and contortion of what was already there, one pinning #theloniusmonk to the mast of improvised music and sailing off into the whorling void. Big up yourselves, everyone concerned #jazz #freejazz #improv #musicreview

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:evocfgfx3nkoccovotpzk6zc/post/3murpvsex33t2

  13. Richard Andersson with Rudi Mahall, Artur Tuznik and Kasper Tom – Monk And More / أحمد [Ahmed] – Play Monk freq.org.uk/reviews/monk-play- @Hakarl ..these records, finally, are perhaps two sides of the Monk coin -- one a stretching and contortion of what was already there, one pinning #theloniusmonk to the mast of improvised music and sailing off into the whorling void. Big up yourselves, everyone concerned. #jazz #freejazz #improv #musicreview

  14. Richard Andersson with Rudi Mahall, Artur Tuznik and Kasper Tom – Monk And More / أحمد [Ahmed] – Play Monk freq.org.uk/reviews/monk-play- @Hakarl ..these records, finally, are perhaps two sides of the Monk coin -- one a stretching and contortion of what was already there, one pinning #theloniusmonk to the mast of improvised music and sailing off into the whorling void. Big up yourselves, everyone concerned. #jazz #freejazz #improv #musicreview

  15. Richard Andersson with Rudi Mahall, Artur Tuznik and Kasper Tom – Monk And More / أحمد [Ahmed] – Play Monk freq.org.uk/reviews/monk-play- @Hakarl ..these records, finally, are perhaps two sides of the Monk coin -- one a stretching and contortion of what was already there, one pinning #theloniusmonk to the mast of improvised music and sailing off into the whorling void. Big up yourselves, everyone concerned. #jazz #freejazz #improv #musicreview

  16. Richard Andersson with Rudi Mahall, Artur Tuznik and Kasper Tom – Monk And More / أحمد [Ahmed] – Play Monk freq.org.uk/reviews/monk-play- @Hakarl ..these records, finally, are perhaps two sides of the Monk coin -- one a stretching and contortion of what was already there, one pinning #theloniusmonk to the mast of improvised music and sailing off into the whorling void. Big up yourselves, everyone concerned. #jazz #freejazz #improv #musicreview

  17. Richard Andersson with Rudi Mahall, Artur Tuznik and Kasper Tom – Monk And More / أحمد [Ahmed] – Play Monk freq.org.uk/reviews/monk-play- @Hakarl ..these records, finally, are perhaps two sides of the Monk coin -- one a stretching and contortion of what was already there, one pinning #theloniusmonk to the mast of improvised music and sailing off into the whorling void. Big up yourselves, everyone concerned. #jazz #freejazz #improv #musicreview

  18. First listen: The Complete Machine Gun Sessions by The Peter Brötzmann Octet, released August 2007, originally released as Machine Gun, June 1968

    rateyourmusic.com/release/albu

    #jazz #freejazz #music

  19. First listen: The Complete Machine Gun Sessions by The Peter Brötzmann Octet, released August 2007, originally released as Machine Gun, June 1968

    rateyourmusic.com/release/albu

    #jazz #freejazz #music

  20. First listen: The Complete Machine Gun Sessions by The Peter Brötzmann Octet, released August 2007, originally released as Machine Gun, June 1968

    rateyourmusic.com/release/albu

    #jazz #freejazz #music

  21. First listen: The Complete Machine Gun Sessions by The Peter Brötzmann Octet, released August 2007, originally released as Machine Gun, June 1968

    rateyourmusic.com/release/albu

    #jazz #freejazz #music

  22. First listen: The Complete Machine Gun Sessions by The Peter Brötzmann Octet, released August 2007, originally released as Machine Gun, June 1968

    rateyourmusic.com/release/albu

    #jazz #freejazz #music

  23. New Jazz Underground HOODIES

    The "New Jazz Underground" album "Hoodies" features the trio of Sebastian Rios on bass, TJ Reddick on drums, and Abdias Armenteros on saxophone, blending traditional jazz with contemporary influences. The album's thirteen tracks explore themes of identity, brotherhood, and cultural solidarity, highlighted by energetic improvisation and structured rhythms.

    makingascene.org/new-jazz-unde

  24. This morning's #workout #music is from the late (RIP) great Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) doing a duet concert with Johnny Dyani in 1977. These excerpts really show what a complete musician he was and feature moods from fierce to serene.

    youtu.be/kHG4Sjkso0Y
    #jazz #SpiritualJazz #FreeJazz #piano #Duets #KettleBells #BodyWeightTraining

  25. Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure & Joao Guerra

    OCCII, Thursday, June 4 at 08:30 PM GMT+2

    SPACEIS THE PLACE:: “Moor Mother live at OCCII” Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure / Joao Guerra Duo

    Surprise gig! Moor Mother plays live at OCCII (Amsterdam), backed up by her musical soulmates Aquiles Navarro and Olof Melander! Expect the unexpected: new work, improv, and a selection from Moor Mother’s rich oeuvre.

    Opening: James McClure & João Guerra

    Vocalist and poet Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother describes her music as “low fi/dark rap/blk girl blues/witch rap/coffee shop riot gurl songs/black ghost songs”. Her vast discography meanders adventurously between jazz, hip hop, and noise, with records under her own name, under the moniker 700 Bliss (with DJ Haram), or in collaborations with Irreversible Entanglements, the avant-metal band SUMAC, and many more.

    “Moor Mother might be the most radical Afrofuturist artist to emerge for years” – The Wire

    https://moormother.bandcamp.com/

    Recently, Moor Mother has moved toward a more melodic and song-oriented approach, while still blending spoken word, experimental jazz, electronics, and radical poetry. Her album Jazz Codes (2023) draws from her poetry project and pays tribute to jazz visionaries such as Woody Shaw and Mary Lou Williams, combining layered vocals, atmospheric production, and free-form improvisation in collaboration with Swedish producer Olof Melander. On her latest full length album The Great Bailout (2024), she expands this cinematic and haunting sound into a powerful meditation on colonial history, displacement, and collective memory, moving between tenderness, noise, jazz abstraction, and poetic storytelling.

    Internationally renowned trumpeter Aquiles Navarro — also her bandmate in Irreversible Entanglements and multi-faceted artist in his own right— contributed to Jazz Codes as well as Circuit City and Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes, and later collaborated with Melander on the album Tangles (2024).

    Moor Mother – "DEATH BY LONGITUDE"

    Watch this video on YouTube

    This event is present by Space is the Place
    Since its founding in 2017, SITP has organized improvised music concerts that encourage creativity across genres and disciplines. Over the years, it has expanded through collaborations with venues and festivals in the Netherlands and abroad, including BIMHUIS, Paradiso, and WORM.

    offbeat.amsterdam/event/moor-m

  26. Eve Risser, Red Desert Orchestra – Eurythmia (2022, France/Europe/Burkina Faso)

    Our next spotlight is on number 679 on The List, submitted by platenworm.

    The Red Desert Orchestra is a free jazz group headed by French composer and pianist Eve Risser, its core members originating from various spots in Europe alongside, for this record, three Burkinabe musicians: Antonin-Tri Hoang (alto sax, analog synth), Sakina Abdou (tenor sax), Grégoire Tirtiaux (bari sax, qarqabas), Nils Ostendorf (trumpet, analog synth), Matthias Müller (trombone), Tatiana Paris (electric guitar, voice) Ophélia Hié (balafon, bara, voice), Mélissa Hié (balafon, djembe, voice), Fanny Lasfargues (electro-acoustic bass), Oumarou Bambara (djembe, bara), and Emmanuel Scarpa (drums, voice).

    The songs are each titled in a language belonging to one of the musicians and integrate a wide variety of elements, as might be expected by reading the list of instruments involved. The effect is rather stunning, seamlessly blending and layering jazzy horn and piano sections into West African percussion solos on top of electronic bloops and bleeps and abstract vocals, often with a hypnotic, minimalist tempo. While all songs are noted as being composed by Risser, she didn’t provide written notation for the musicians so as to prevent posing a barrier for those who didn’t read music. The group instead worked through the pieces together and provided their own improvisations, and each individual musician is given the opportunity to shine at one point or another in the album. The result is that all the musicians are credited for the fantastic collaborative arrangements, and the listener is left wanting more. Beautiful.

    #BurkinaFaso #EveRisser #freeJazz #improvisation #ListenToThis #music #musicDiscovery #RedDesertOrchestra #WestAfricanMusic
  27. Remember kids: friends don't let friends "Zorn". Not even once.

    A concise and funny article propping up early Zorn experiments as some kind of evil or fucked up taboo. Good stuff! 🤣

    "Here is a list of things Naked City sounds like: a jazz “Revolution 9,” a broken tape of a French murder mystery, a rollercoaster on the brink of falling apart, the varsity jazz band in a mental institution, The Wizard of Gore, a man in a red velvet suit whispering something seductive and then screaming in your ear, nothing else."

    Wholesome tunes for the entire family to gather around the stereophonic sound system in the living room and listen together to on a cold winter Sunday evening.

    "The Sicilian Clan"(linked in the article) is still one of my favorite "smooth" jazz-noir bits after 30+ years.

    treblezine.com/john-zorn-naked
    #JohnZorn #AvantJazz #FreeJazz #music #Jazz