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Music from new label Tao Forms

By Bob Osborne | World of Jazz
July 2, 2020
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Tao Forms is a new recording label launched in Spring 2020. Drummer—improviser—composer

Whit Dickey

drums

" data-original-title="" title="">Whit Dickey is both the creative director and executive producer of this fresh endeavour.

" data-original-title="" title="">Matthew Shipp's The Piano Equation was the label's inaugural release. It was followed by Expanding Light, which is the new work by Whit Dickey himself. The music is distributed by the Aum Fidelity label.

On this show I feature tracks from both of those albums as well as other music from the discographies of the four musicians playing on these releases.

Playlist

Whit Dickey Trio "Desert Flower" from Expanding Light (Tao Forms) 00:00
Matthew Shipp "Piano Equation" from The Piano Equation (Tao Forms) 09:19
Rob Brown
saxophone, alto
b.1962
" data-original-title="" title="">Rob Brown Trio "Sounds I Archaeology" from Sounds (Clean Feed) 14:58
Ivo Perelman
saxophone, tenor
b.1961
" data-original-title="" title="">Ivo Perelman,
Nate Wooley
trumpet
b.1974
" data-original-title="" title="">Nate Wooley,
Brandon Lopez
bass
b.1988
" data-original-title="" title="">Brandon Lopez,
Gerald Cleaver
drums
b.1963
" data-original-title="" title="">Gerald Cleaver "Part 2" from Octagon (Leo Records) 27:45
David S. Ware
saxophone, tenor
1949 - 2012
" data-original-title="" title="">David S. Ware "Dao Forms" from Dao (Homestead Records) 38:34
Matthew Shipp "Land of the Secrets" from The Piano Equation (Tao Forms) 56:34
Whit Dickey Trio "Mobius" from Expanding Light (Tao Forms) 1:00:35
Dave Rempis
saxophone
b.1975
" data-original-title="" title="">Dave Rempis, Brandon Lopez,
Ryan Packard
drums
" data-original-title="" title="">Ryan Packard "Confucius Ornis" from The Early Bird Gets (Aerophonic) 1:08:14
Rob Brown,
Daniel Levin
cello
b.1974
" data-original-title="" title="">Daniel Levin,
Jacek Mazurkiewicz
" data-original-title="" title="">Jacek Mazurkiewicz "Day in the Life of a City" from Day in the Life of a City (Multikulti Project) 1:15:40
John Dikeman
saxophone, tenor
b.1983
" data-original-title="" title="">John Dikeman, Brandon Lopez,
Onno Govaert
drums
" data-original-title="" title="">Onno Govaert "Precession of Simalcra" from Those Impossible Creatures (Sonorus Records) 1:23:38
Ivo Perelman, Matthew Shipp,
Michael Bisio
bass, acoustic
" data-original-title="" title="">Michael Bisio, Whit Dickey "Soul" from Soul (Leo Records) 1:31:28
Whit Dickey Trio "The Opening" from Expanding Light (Tao Forms) 1:39:53
Matthew Shipp "Cosmic Juice" from The Piano Equation (Tao Forms) 1:45:28
Rob Brown Quartet "Wonder/Wander Off" from Unexplained Phenomena (Marge) 1:50:45

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