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Witch 'n' Monk by Witch 'n' Monk, released on Tzadik in 2020. John Lewis wrote for the Guardian: Witch ‘n’ Monk are a theatrical Anglo-Colombian duet featuring two very different musicians. Mauricio Velasierra plays a variety of flutes, while Heidi Heidelberg is a classically trained soprano singer who plays spiky prog-punk riffs on guitar while using looper pedals.. This self-titled LP, recorded in rural Wales and in a former Stasi bunker in Berlin, is their first for John Zorn’s Tzadik label, and you can see what attracted a sonic anarchist such as Zorn to their music. They talk of “abandoning the egoistic 20th-century idea of the lone, male composer writing his opus” by recording stream-of-consciousness music: hours of sleep-deprived, endlessly mutating improvisations are sliced up and used as the basis for these slightly manic musical collages... https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/15/witch-n-monk-witch-n-monk-review https://witchnmonk.bandcamp.com/album/witch-n-monk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8TbO5Bz8y0&list=RDf8TbO5Bz8y0&start_radio=1 #WitchnMonk #Music #Tzadik #AvantGarde

Ended Monday and welcomed Tuesday after a walk under azure skies with Three Strange Angels by Peter Garland, released in 2008 on Tzadik, Review by Anthony Tognazzini Released on John Zorn’s Tzadik label, THREE STRANGE ANGELS is actually a reissue of recordings made by avant-garde composer Peter Garland near the beginning of his career. The spare, lyrical compositions reflect Garland’s interest in traditional Native American and Mexican music, as well as the minimalist strain of American experimental music. With an ensemble that includes violin, harp, recorder, and percussion, Garland and company create delicate sonic tapestries that are as lovely as they are otherworldly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFo4Lu4It0c&list=RDLFo4Lu4It0c&start_radio=1 #PeterGarland #Music #AvantGarde #Minimalism #Tzadik