Seattle’s beloved underground music iconoclast Skerik has long found the city of New Orleans a balm for his inherently subversive musical approach. Currently calling The Big Easy his second home, the saxophonist embraces this dichotomy between his own profane instincts and the Crescent City’s ritualistic jazz traditions with Compersion Quartet — a band in which he’s joined by fellow incendiary musicians: pianist Brian Hass, bassist James Singleton and drummer Simon Lott. Recorded in New Orleans, the quartet’s self-titled debut album presents a series of studio improvisations that amalgamate in fits and starts of cinematic beauty, syncopated melodism and mystic sonic experimentalism.
Listen to ‘Unreliable Translator’ below…
TheWaster.com | Listen Up
11.22.2024
