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Sonic Liberation 8

Sonic Liberation 8 brings together a mix of post-modern chamber-jazz and Afro -Cuban-Lukumi tradition with influences as far afield as Ornette Colemen, Eric Satie, Prince Lasha & Sonny Simmons, Lasaro Ros, and Charles Mingus… All under the watchful eyes of the Orishas.

Sonic Liberation 8: Kevin Diehl – bata & drumkit, Matt Engle – bass, Veronica Jurkiewicz – viola, Elliott Levin – woodwinds, Connor Przybyszewski – trombone, Tom Lowery – percussion & drumkit, Ron Howeton – bata & percussion, Nichola Rivera – bata & percussion

Awards

Best Music of 2012 BLUEFAT.com Pick of the week AVANT MUSIC NEWS Best of 2012 (honorable mention) AVANT MUSIC NEWS


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Sonic Liberation 8 with Classical Revolution Trio & Oliver Lake: Bombogenic

Read "Bombogenic" reviewed by Dave Wayne


There are a few artists out there who are successfully merging authentic traditional Afro-Cuban and Caribbean rhythms with 21st Century jazz in a way that refers to, but doesn't sound like, typical Latin jazz: Adam Rudolph's Go Organic Orchestra and Kip Hanrahan's various groups immediately come to mind. Taking their cues equally from the early 70s recordings of Miles Davis and Weather Report, from Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra, and from contemporary composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and Morton Feldman, ...

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“[a] sundry collection of wonders. It’s among the years greatest excitements.” – JAZZTIMES, Micheal J. West DEC 2012

“an artful sense of space and sound… especially intriguing…seductive” – PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, Karl Stark, , Sunday, January 5, 2013

“While it builds from a firm foundation of AfroCuban rhythms, the SLF also evokes the Sun Ra Arkestra in its raucous, expansive sound” DOWNBEAT, Shaun Brady, April 2013

“a wild joy… it’s tempting to think that the kind of sound Coltrane had inmind wouldn’t have been very different from what Murray recorded overthreeand a half decades later with the Philadelphia based free jazz collectiveSonic Liberation Front.”THE WIRE UKAdventures in Modern Music April 2011, Dan Warburton

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Moon Rust Red Streets

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2021

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Bombogenic

High Two Recordings
2016

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Jetway Confidential

High Two Recordings
2012

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Jetway Cofidential

High Two Recordings
2012

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