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  New Release:  Elle a son Mot à Dire from Joane Hétu Label:  Ambiances Magnetiques Release Date:  June 27, 2025 Websites:  https://joanehetu.bandcamp.com/album/elle-a-son-mot-dire https://actuellecd.com/en/album/6703-elle-a-son-mot-dire https://ambiances-magnetiques.bandcamp.com Elle a son Mot à Dire from vocalist, saxophonist, innovator, and composer Joane Hétu presents so much more than merely a listening experience but more precisely she brings together a vast exhibition of life-size art set to sound passages.  Her theatrical performance integrates a mixed cacophony of elements including operatic vocals, eclectic effects, molten wails, fiery histrionics, free-style jazz of an otherworldly dimension, and both chamber music and extraterrestrial sounds.  Her project is reminiscent of avant garde artists, who illustrate the point where art meets music, where chaos meets melody exhibited by the likes of Laurie Anderson and David Byrne of Talking Heads....

Album:  In Flower, In Song Artist:  Trio Xolo Label:  577 Records Website:  https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/in-flower-in-song In Flower, In Song, the debut album from Trio Xolo, a modern era avant garde jazz trio, explores the jazz palette, indulging in polyrhythms, tone clusters, and improvisation.  The trio is a collaboration made up of bassist Zachary Swanson, saxophonist Derrick Michaels and Lithuanian percussionist Dalius Naujo.  The music is entirely improvised, layering chord patterns that move the tracks in different directions, forming a complex maze. Sharing a kindred spirit with the impulsive exchange and organic communication expressed in pianist/composer Michael Braam's jazz combos and demonstrating an exploratory nature relatable to drummer/bandleader Elvin Jones, Trio Xolo experiments with the range of their instruments, intertwining their individual voices into intricate labyrinths.  Michaels's tenor sax soars and rumbles above t...

Album: Bredux:  Collected Edges Artist:  Kaylé Brecher Label: Penchant Four Music Website:  http://www.brecherjazz.com Vocalist Kaylé Brecher spotlights her expressive voicing, approaching her song choices on her ninth release Bredux: Collected Edges with an avant garde-bent.  Selecting tunes that enable her to exercise her talent for vocal improvisation and to explore the nuances inherent in her register, Brecher's arrangements brim with authenticity, fusing her eclectic taste with modern jazz arrangements. Brecher's vocals elicit a distinct ambience in each track from the soothing tone of her timbres whisking across the island breezes of "Under Paris Skies," propagated by Todd Groves's piccolo, to the jumping jive strut in her versing along "Spy Music."  Changing to a burlesque sway through "Cool," Brecher's scatting asserts her expressive side, bringing out her flair for improvising sounds. The spontaneity in her singing displays her in...

Album:   Discovery Artist:   Marton Juhasz Label:   Self-Released Website:   www.martonjuhasz.com Working with a diverse palette that consists of jazz-inspired motifs, guitar fusion chord patterns, and inventive improvisations, drummer and bandleader Marton Juhasz takes travelers across a broad spectrum of soundscapes on his CD Discovery, merging eastern and western influences.   For example, the dark and ominous tone of Olga Konkova's piano keys make divots along "Industry," displaying a western influence reminiscent of jazz noir, which fuses with the eastern influences of tribal chants and tingling chimes of the guitar strings.   The two diverse worlds collide, and form contrasting colors that are sonically dissonant and complementing, achieving an attractive balance. The R&B grooves strung along "Stino" support the soaring aerials of Yumi Ito's scatting vocals as Sergio Wagner's improvisations on the horn weave i...