Weekly Picks & Misc.
Weekly Picks
St. Monday Quad - Wheelie-ing (OTORoku, 2022) This improvised set is wild, unpredictable, and playfully divine.
Also on heavy, heavy rotation, three albums from the incomparable Paal Nilssen-Love:
Circus - Pairs of Three (Catalytic Sound / PNL Records, 2022)
Large Unit - Clusterfuck (Catalytic Sound / PNL Records, 2022)
Large Unit - New Map (Catalytic Sound / PNL Records, 2022)
Misc.
Hank Shteamer wrote about The Tony Williams Lifetime album Emergency! for Pitchfork.
Writing about Konjur Collective was a highlight of last year, and Phil Freeman has a new Burning Ambulance piece covering them, as well as Nduduzo Makhathini and Mbuso Khoza, and Jason Moran.