On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all.
▰ Very much enjoying the recent Barker album, Stochastic Drift (released by Smalltown Supersound on April 4), especially the heavy Selected Ambient Works Volume II vibe of the track “Positive Disintegration.” (Barker is British, and lives in Berlin.)
▰ Fantastic live set from jazz bassist Linda May Han Oh (Malaysia-born, Australia-raised), with Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet — Oakland, California) and Pulitzer Prize winner Tyshawn Sorey (drums, New Jersey), recorded at the Keith Haring Theater, Performance Space, NY, back in January. Akinmusire is a somewhat recent favorite of mine, and I love hearing my instrumentalist favorites in supporting, or at least non-leading, roles.
▰ Dutch musician Rutger Hoedemaekers’ score for the science fiction TV series Moresnet is moody and dramatic — cinematic, for sure, but also pleasingly touched by the weird. Hoedemaekers previously worked on, among other projects, Trapped (with Jóhann Jóhannsson and Hildur Guðnadóttir) and The Last Berliner.
