LET IT SHINE (Ear Up) 7.5/10 Jeff Coffin and Helen Gillet can fill in the holes with multi-tracking, or they can let their lines twist about each other like two vines. The Sun Never Says has Coffin’s soprano saxophone and Gillet’s cello pursuing contrapuntal lines akin to twin prayers, while…
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BLACKHOLES AND MODULATIONS (www.ephemeraensemble.com) 8/10 Ephemera, always outward-reaching conceptually, has now expanded in size from a trio to a quartet with the addition of violist Carl St Jacques, and the sonic options have grown exponentially. As on the band’s first album, composer Keyna Wilkins takes her inspiration from the wonders…
PROMISES (Luaka Bop/Inertia) 9/10 It’s one thing to have a 60-year career; quite another to be a force for that time. But here is Pharoah Sanders in 2021, still searching for truth, reaching for beauty and questioning the limits of his art. Electronics maestro and composer Sam Shepherd (aka Floating…