Mahakala Music is a small label based in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It was started by saxophonist Chad Fowler, and focused on improvisers with ties to the American southern states, but has begun to spread its wings. This episode features several new albums from Mahakala: Doplarians, Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp, the Minneapolis-trio Original Minds, and an unearthed session featuring Steve Swell, Borah Bergman, Perry Robinson & Ray Sage. Also new are releases from Alberto Pinton (solo baritone sax), the French quartet Kartet, Canadian trio Tune Town, England’s Shapeshifter Trio, and French saxophonist Baptiste Boiron’s exciting trio. And a Groundhog Day-like album by the Chandler Travis Philharmonic playing the same tune in myriad ways.
00:00 Tune Town * Entering Utopia – Three Pines * Hello Today * Canada 05:05 Host speaks 06:56 Abraham Burton & Lucian Ban * Blacksalt – Sunnyside * Not That Kind Of Blues * USA 15:02 Christof Thewes’ Undertone Project * Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures At An Exhibition – Self-released * Samuel Goldenberg & Schmuyle * Germany 23:18 Alberto Pinton * Good Idea – Clear Now * Sterno * Sweden 30:13 Host speaks 31:29 Kartet * Hask – Ultrabolic * Plastiches * France 41:45 Ethnic Heritage Ensemble * Be Known Ancient/Future Music – Spiritmuse * Little Sunflower (For Roy Hargrove) * USA 48:38 Host speaks 50:10 Dopolarians * The Bond – Mahakala * The Release * USA 59:48 Original Mind * You Know When It’s Time – Mahakala * Dreamery * USA 1:08:40 Original Mind * You Know When It’s Time – Mahakala * Leeway * USA 1:13:41 Host speaks 1:14:55 Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp * Amalgam – Mahakala * Part 2 * USA 1:18:43 Samuel Blaser Quartet * Moods – Blaser Music * Tom Sherman’s Barroom * Germany 1:26:55 Emanuele Passerini * Trio Geometrics – Dodicilune * Untitled * Italy 1:31:40 Host speaks 1:33:20 Chandler Travis Philharmonic * The Ivan Variations – Iddy Biddy * Pilk’s Ivan * USA 1:38:31 Chandler Travis Philharmonic * The Ivan Variations – Iddy Biddy * Ivan Goes To Church * USA 1:43:17 Jorma Tapio’s Rolling Thunder * Live In Japan – Self-released * Second Life * Finland 1:50:02 Host speaks 1:51:18 Shapeshifters * Shapeshifters – New Jazz Records * Mind Hoover * England 1:59:20 Wadada Leo Smith Douglas R Ewart & Mike Reed * Sun Beans Of Shimmering Light – Astral Spirits * Constellations And Conjunctional Spaces * USA 2:14:56 Host speaks 2:16:54 Borah Bergman Steve Swell Perry Robinson & Ray Sage * Quartets Duos Trios – Mahakala * BSR-1 * USA 2:22:11 Borah Bergman Steve Swell Perry Robinson & Ray Sage * Quartets Duos Trios – Mahakala * BPRS-2 * USA 2:30:17 Francesca Remigi & Archipelagos * Il Labirinto Dei Topi – Emme * Il Labirinto Dei Topi * Italy 2:38:06 Host speaks 2:39:08 Baptiste Boiron * Lá – Ayler * B Flat Nu L’Envol * France 2:46:02 Nacho Szulga 5 * Entramados Homeostaticos – Ears&Eyes * Uno * Argentina 2:53:36 Host speaks 2:54:44 Baptiste Boiron * Lá – Ayler * Fleurette Africaine * France