New Music Reviews (5/3) KEXP
Each week, Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP s rotation. These reviews help our DJs decide on what they want to play. See what we added this week below (and on our Charts page), including new releases from
Dawn Richard,
Dawn Richard –
Second Line (Merge)
This New Orleans singer/songwriter/musician/producer’s sixth solo album is an adventurous blend of R&B, house, footwork, New Orleans bounce and more, combining moody synths and propulsive rhythms with her elastic vocals and lyrics of love, lust, struggle and resilience.
Dinosaur Jr. –
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Lila in a single take over a five-hour session at The Daptone House of Soul.
The album’s title comes from the lila ceremonies that incorporate song, music, dance, costume, and incense and take place over the course of an entire night, ending around dawn. The focus is on healing through music.
Lila follows the label’s February release of Menahan Street Band’s
The Exciting Sounds of Menahan Street Band album.
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Israeli trumpeter’s unique East-West sound wins jazz prize
Itamar Borochov fuses the Mideast-North African synagogue music of his Jaffa childhood with the American jazz of Armstrong, Davis and Coltrane.
Award-winning Israeli trumpeter Itamar Borochov. Photo by Aviram Valdman
Israeli trumpeter Itamar Borochov and Immanuel Wilkins of Philadelphia recently won 2020’s two LetterOne Rising Stars Jazz Awards, besting more than 700 candidates and winning the services of a professional team to arrange their appearances at seven leading international jazz festivals.
That is, when jazz festivals resume. The Covid-19 pandemic temporarily silenced these popular events and led to Borochov’s return to Israel after 14 years honing his talent in New York.