Jungle: Mat Walerian/Matthew Shipp/Hamid Drake

Jungle: Mat Walerian/Matthew Shipp/Hamid Drake: Live At Okuden

by Mark Corroto
August 13, 2016

How is it that a musician like reedsman Mat Walerian can drop straight out of the sky and into your ears? Where did he come from? The mostly self-taught Polish born artist releases Live At Okuden his second for ESP Disk. The label is definitely the most appropriate record company for such a mysterious artist. Think of label founder Bernard Stollman's earliest artists, Albert Ayler, Giuseppi Logan, Frank Wright, Noah Howard, and Charles Tyler. All players introduced to us by ...