Mixtape #102

A restless drummer extraordinaire, improviser and composer, Booker Stardrum musical involvements include performing and recording with an array of bands and projects. We have been hooked on his staggering sounds ever since we came across Booker’s 2015 debut album, Dance And, which was one of our picks of the year, as was last year’s follow-up, Temporary etc. So we can’t wait to hear what he comes up with next, and are over the moon he put together this month’s enthralling mixtape.

  1. Sacred Flute Music from New Guinea (Ragnar Johnson assisted by Jessica Mayer) – Mo-Mo [Ideologic Organ]
  2. Carl Stone – Jitlada [In Tone Music]
  3. Laurel Halo – Mercury [Latency]
  4. Jon Hassell – Solaire [ECM Records]
  5. Ahnnu – Ne-Ne [NNA Tapes]
  6. Weather Report – Milkyway [Selles]
  7. Motohiko Hamase – Lung [Shi Zen]
  8. Paul DeMarinis – Kokole [Music & Arts]
  9. Jlin – Kyanite [Planet Mu]
  10. $3.33 – + [Leaving Records]
  11. Susumo Yokota – Red Swan [Leaf]
  12. Midori Takada – Trompe-l’oeil [RCA Red Seal]

Leaving Records to reissue $3.33’s DRAFT EP

$3.33 - DRAFT EPThere couldn’t be a better way to continue celebrating Piano Day than with the reissue of $3.33‘s DRAFT EP. Celia Hollander, the Los Angeles visual artist and musician behind the project, originally released the EP in 2014. Featuring four tracks of “deep, dense and expansive piano manipulations and explorations”, as the press release describes, the EP is being re-released on April 7th through Leaving Records in the form of a limited cassette tape.
Listen to the magnificent EP opener ‘+’ below and straight after watch a teaser extracted from the album-length music video by Miko Revereza set to premiere at the album’s launch also on April 7th.