Articles by Nilan Perera

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  John Coltrane

  Offering - Live at Temple University

  PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2014

  This music has floated around for some years as a badly presented bootleg but is now available for the first time on Impulse!/Resonance rec...

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  Seun Kuti / Asiko Afrobeat / Luvmenauts

  Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON, July 12

  PUBLISHED Jul 13, 2014

  I don't understand what the fuss is about all the energy shortages in the world. All they would need to do would be to wire up Seun Kuti to...

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  Nels Cline and Julian Lage

  Room

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2014

  What do you get when you take two masterful instrumentalists with very divergent stylistic outputs and put them in a studio to play togethe...

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  Angel

  Terra Null

  PUBLISHED Jun 10, 2014

  The art of ambience and the drone factor lies in the ability to create tension, release and narrative without the familiar infrastructures...

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  Max Loderbauer, Claudio Puntin and Samuel Rohrer

  Ambiq

  PUBLISHED May 15, 2014

  This trio of clarinet, modular synth and drums starts out with some well-executed and coherent improvisations. The mood is dark and pensive...

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  Ideal Bread

  Beating the Teens: The Songs of Steve Lacy

  PUBLISHED May 13, 2014

  The late Steve Lacy's music occupies a very special place in the world of improvised music: it's witty, spare and quite heady, as unique as...

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  Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi

  Tikkun

  PUBLISHED May 13, 2014

  Tikkun olam is a Jewish concept that means "repairing the world," and speaks to our shared responsibility as members of the human community...

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  Peter Epstein Quartet

  Polarities

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2014

  One does not often hear jazz that achieves this measure of modernity, swing and acute listening in group improvisation. The quartet —...