See the complete studio sessions for the electronic duo's latest project, a collection of Sylvan Esso songs performed by a full band, with saxophone, electric guitar, piano and more.
Intensity in songs often expresses itself as volume – a loud guitar, a scream, a piercing synth line. But in the case of Aldous Harding it's in the spaces, the pauses, and her unique delivery.
Scofield's albums Loud Jazz and Quiet were both genuine expressions of his flexible musical personality. In this program, he performs a retrospective that bridges the difference.
Listening to the Montreal trio is like standing between a Richard Serra installation: massive and imposing, but curved to let the light shine on the edges.
Surrounded by the Norns, the three fate goddesses of Norse mythology, Myrkur's Amalie Bruun offers a prescription: Go into the wild, take an evil sound, bend it to a positive end.