Wadada Leo Smith- NajwaLabel: TUM Records Released 2017 Four new compositions by Wadada Leo Smith in tribute to past masters of creative music, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Ronald Shannon Jackson and Billie Holiday, as well as the title composition "Najwa" in remembrance of a love lost. Wadada Leo Smith performs with a highly charged electric ensemble, including Michael Gregory Jackson, Henry Kaiser, Brandon Ross and Lamar Smith on guitars, Bill Laswell on electric bass,

pop-influenced

With the sprawling audial tapestry The Temple have laid out with their debut

I Love The Unknown

and was ranked at number 70 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time

The guitars are fuzzy and flooded with spring reverb

heralds the arrival of the first Berlin incarnation

John Scofield and the United Jazz+Rock Ensemble recorded there

thanks to some heavy breaks and proto-electro loops

Could It Be The Way I Look At Everything

The band have made live shows a focus by performing in unusual venues across the world as well as using Victorian-era instruments in tandem with more modern instruments

Next to Nothing

Originally released in 2017 Sketches of Brunswick East