imagining an alternate social order

After a trilogy of double LPs by expanded manifestations of the band that began in 2018 with Mandatory Reality & continued through Since Time Is Gravity (a Pitchfork Best Jazz & Experimental Album of the Year selection & Mojo’s #1 Underground Album of 2023)

Into this juvenile apocalypse our golden blood to pour let us never is an unfiltered and undoctored document of a specific moment in time

When others zig

mixed by Otto Willberg and mastered by Mikey Young

RYAN SAWYERS SHAKER ENSEMBLE - For Those Who Wish to Sing Will Always Find a Song LP DC soul imagining an alternate social orderOne night, not too long ago at Union Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Ryan Sawyer introduced his piece, For Those Who Wish to Sing, Will Always Find a Song. He invited the audience to sing along at any point they felt moved to, just abstract oohs and aahs, or oms, or whatever. The small stage was crowded with musicians The Shaker Ensemble which that night included Jessica Pavone on viola, Nate Wooley on trumpet, Laura Cocks on flute, Stuart Bogie on