Please excuse my excitement, but I think I know how those old prospectors in the Gold Rush era felt when they hit a strike. Portugal’s Clean Feed Records just dropped a load of great new releases and that’s a gold nugget in itself. Featured in this episode of OMJ are new albums by the blues/avant garde Italian band Roots Magic, Portugal’s introspective pocket trumpet player and composer Sei Miguel, drummer Mario Costa, the very progressive trio The Selva and two, TWO, releases featuring prominent members of the Canadian avant garde, guitar/oud player Gordon Grdina with Mat Maneri and Christian Lillinger and clarinetist Francois Houle’s Genera Sextet. More new stuff from more European artists too: Italians tenor player Fabio Delvo and drummer Francesco Cusa, Danish pianist Jacob Anderskov and Swiss Trio LEIB. Buckle up!!!
00:00 Kahil El Zabar Ritual Trio & Archie Shepp * Conversations – Delmark * Conversations The Introduction * USA
07:56 Host speaks
08:37 Kahil El Zabar Ritual Trio & Archie Shepp * Conversations – Delmark * Big Fred * USA
16:51 Carlotta Vettori * Ruah – Fonterossa * Morgef * Italy
21:51 Pesh * Peshish – A.M.P. * Music 45 * Poland
28:56 Roots Magic * Long Old Road – Clean Feed * Blue Lines For Muhal Richard Abrams * Italy
36:05 Host speaks
37:39 Roots Magic * Long Old Road – Clean Feed * Amber for Abdul Wadud * Italy
43:46 Say What * Say What – We Jazz * IV * USA
50:09 Host speaks
52:30 Sei Miguel Unit Core * Road Music – Clean Feed * Nocturno Do Negocio Da Prata * Portugal
1:00:12 Tineke Postma * Aria – Edition * Hymn For Hestia * Netherlands
1:06:21 Host speaks
1:08:27 Francois Houle Genera Sextet * In Memoriam – Clean Feed * Stand By * Canada
1:10:02 Francois Houle Genera Sextet * In Memoriam – Clean Feed * Requiem For K.P. * Canada
1:20:25 Nite Bjuti * Nite Bjuti – Whirlwind * Stolen Voice * USA
1:25:49 Host speaks
1:26:32 Francesco Cusa Trio * Minimal Works – Improvisatore Invollluntario * Sweet Lucrezio * Italy
1:33:46 Tobia Bondesan & Giovanni Maier * Live In Pisa – Fonterossa * Diciotta Dicciannone Venti * Italy
1:39:53 Helen Svoboda * Time Together / Time Apart – 577 Records * Doubts * Australia
1:45:23 Charles Bobo Shaw & Human Art Ensemble * Junk Trap – Black Saint * Brown Rock City * USA
1:52:45 Host speaks
1:54:28 Fabio Delvo & Fellows * Crocodile Embalsers – DF Records * Light Iron * Italy
2:00:34 Matt Mitchell * Oblong Aplomb – Out Of Your Head * Ingenuous * USA
2:06:47 Host speaks
2:07:53 LEIB * Mother Hologram/Sister Anagram – Neue Numeral * All Birds Are Cowards * Switzerland
2:14:24 Alexander Hawkins Trio * Carnival Celestial – Intakt * Sarabande Celestial * England
2:19:50 Aaron Leaney & Jacques Thouin * Lockdown – Self-released * Inward * Canada
2:24:57 Mario Costa * Chromosomes – Clean Feed * La Grotte * Portugal
2:34:21 Host speaks
2:36:06 Jacob Anderskov * Emerald – Ilk Music * Emerald * Denmark
2:41:14 The Selva * Camarao Girafa – Clean Feed * Blues Canino * Portugal
2:47:32 Host speaks
2:48:34 Gordon Grdina, Mat Maneri & Christian Lillinger * Live At The Armoury – Clean Feed * Communion * Canada/US/Germany