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Eva Swiderski Bringing it on

In passing I heard Eva this evening for the first time on a guitarist album. Pretty quickly I understood there was something special. And in this video you can see what it is. Hopefully this young talent can bring her performance to the US.

Best Music of 2024 - Eric Chenaux Trio

 

It's reassuring to see artists who previously one had listed as an outstanding talent in a previous year return with another set of inspiring music, unlike but similar to the charms of the past. Eric Chenaux Trio has done this again in 2024 with his positive "Delights of My World". Here is what Haley Scott said about this release in The Quietus earlier this year:

Joined by fellow Canadian musicians Philippe Melanson on electric percussion (Bernice, Joseph Shabson, U.S. Girls) and longtime collaborator Ryan Driver on Wurlitzer organ, the trio expands the palette of Chenaux’s oddly welcoming strangeness with loose, wandering experimentations and open-ended structures, holding time in newfound ways. Often bleary-eyed, slow and sleepy, Delights of My Life is the audio equivalent of hitting the snooze button on your phone’s alarm clock as you slip back into a dream state, drifting into a world beyond temporal constraints where that precious thing – time – is immaterial, giving yourself permission to just be.

Best Music of 2024 - Patricia Brennan and Alan Braufman

 

 

This Mexican percussionist/vibraphonist, Patricia Brennan,  who now resides in Brooklyn has been putting out adventurous new music with other like-souls in the past 5 years. In 2024 she issued one of the best recordings of any music: Breaking Stretch. And she was also part of an Alan Braufman ensemble that explored new music from a more classically avantgarde jazz perspective. These are both "must listens" to get an idea of the future to come!

 

Here is an informative review of Alan Braufman's album from a YouTube site (BellasarioSonic) that provides intelligent analysis of Braufman's new "Infinite Love" album which has Patricia Brennan as one of the accompanists-there are some lovely shades of Ornette in the tunes and improvisation. And Brennan's contributions sparkle.