Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer on Bandcamp.
Is International Anthem the best label working right now? I think yes, at least in terms of the new music I hear that gives me pause and makes me think, “Huh, so that’s how music is evolving.” This is a song featuring Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu, and Marta Sofia, but for all I know this is the work of one person or a subway full of jazzy doodlers who are in tune with the sound of the earth and wish to express its beautiful pain, or a beauty so painful that the saxophones (I think those are saxophones?) only have so much energy to yawn into a horizon. I love this.
-Brady Gerber
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