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Fuubutsushi: Columbia Deluxe [American Dreams]
Fuubutsushi—the quartet of Patrick Shiroishi, Chris Jusell, Matthew Sage, and Chaz Prymek—perform expanded compositions from across its catalog on Columbia Deluxe, an album recorded live at the Columbia Experimental Music Festival in 2021. Having founded the group remotely, the four of them performed for the first (and, to date, only) time at the festival, reworking songs that span from their early-pandemic origins through to last year’s Meridians. Woven through their elemental fusion of ambient, jazz, folk, and modern classical are field recordings of Japanese Americans speaking about their time in American internment camps during World War II.
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Tony Njoku: All Our Knives Are Always Sharp [Studio Njoku]
Since his emergence in the late 2010s, British composer and songwriter Tony Njoku has essayed into an otherworldly universe of electronic, classical, and agitprop-fired pop, all of which bubble to a head on All Our Knives Are Always Sharp. Filling out his sprawling compositions are lynchpins of the past and present UK underground: Tricky, Space Afrika, Gaika, Coby Sey, Ghostpoet, and more. The results feel like laments for a time of political, cultural, and environmental tumult; as he said in press materials, “I’m weaponizing my spirituality for the battle.”
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