#Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy

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Jeff Parker ETA IVtet — Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy (Eremite Records)

Photo by Mikel Patrick Avery

Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy by Jeff Parker ETA IVtet

Jeff Parker’s latest is a double album recorded live at the Los Angeles venue referenced in the title in the spring and summer of 2019 and the spring of 2021. In the context of the guitarist’s body of work, this quartet, with Jay Bellerose on percussion, Anna Butterss on bass, and Josh Johnson on sax, extends his minimalist approach. Both Johnson and Parker make extensive use of pedals that expand the sound, taking the place often filled by keyboards. The continuity of mood and tone in this trance-inducing set is remarkable, with, for example, nothing to distinguish the pre- and mid-pandemic dates.

The side-long tracks, averaging over 20 minutes each, are named only for the dates on which they were recorded and thus lack any point of reference beyond the music itself, which occupies a space somewhere between jazz and ambient similar to that explored by Parker with and alongside groups such as the Natural Information Society and tracing back to his time with Tortoise. The sound has a live feel but no audience noise. Apparently entirely improvisational, the music is nevertheless purposeful, evolving without reliance on crescendos or quick shifts in tempo or instrumentation. 

A colleague at Dusted described this recording as “a groover not a smoover,” which gets to the heart of the matter: all four players remain committed to the collective project rather than relying on one another to support their soloing. To be sure, there are some fine solos, such as the elliptical guitar figure beginning around 2:45 on “2019-07-08 II,” the sax at around 11:00 on “2019-07-08 I,” and the back-to-back guitar and sax workouts in the first half of “2019-05-19” that develop organically with the support of the rhythm section. These and other moments, including the stately opening of “2019-05-19” after what sounds like glitchy organ and the emergence of a guitar (?) line that sounds like a Bitchin’ Bajas synth in synch with the drums around 13:00 on “2019-07-08 II” help shape the listening experience into a kind of journey.

Simultaneously soothing, playful, and thought-provoking, Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy is an outstanding recording with the potential to appeal even to those for whom Parker’s work with Tortoise or in other settings hasn’t resonated. The liner notes rightly compare the set to such landmark live recordings as Lee Morgan’s Live at the Lighthouse in which a band, rather than running through well-known pieces, uses the setting to make a fresh statement.

Jim Marks

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a top ten albums of 2022 by Doug Mosurock

Roller — Offed CS (Radical Documents)

Tha Retail Simp$ — Reverberant Scratch: 9 Shots in Tha Dark LP (Total Punk) / room-silencing beef with Daniel Romano (no label ever could)

Limousine Beach s/t LP (Tee Pee)

Long Odds — Fine Thread digital download (self-released / Bandcamp)

Rose Mercie — ¿Kieres Agua? LP (Celluloid Lunch)

Non Temps Plus — Desire Choir LP (PPM)

Jeff Parker — Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy 2xLP (Eremite)

Weak Signal — War & War digital download (Colonel)

Charles Stepney — Step on Step 2xLP (International Anthem)

The Soft Pink Truth — Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This? 2xLP (Thrill Jockey)

hear all ten on this week’s Heathen Disco, New Year’s Night 2023. chirpradio.org

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Favorite Albums of 2022

Almanac Behind by Daniel Bachman

For Leolanda by Maria Moles

I get along without you very well by Ellen Arkbro & Johan Graden

caroline by caroline

Monuments to Impermanence by Pyrithe

Fleeting Adventure by Andrew Tuttle

Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy by Jeff Parker ETA IVtet

Bonnie Rides With Us by Adam Harding & Thor Harris

Ghosts by HARESS

Sweet Tooth by Mali Obomsawin

ZYGGURAT by Zyggurat

Music for Magnesium_173 by Ian William Craig

Amplified Guitar by Mat Ball

All The Things That Happen by Steve Bates

MCVII - I by DISTANT VOICES

Labyrinthine by Nadja

How I Learnt To Disengage From The Pack by Ben McElroy

Good and Green Again by Jake Xerxes Fussell

NOW I AM ALONE BEFORE THE STARS by VILLENEUVE

Earthbound by Tome of the Unreplenished

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Tortoise - Elsewhere, New York City, October 2, 2022

Over on Aquarium Drunkard this week, I raved about the new Jeff Parker album, Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy — I can't recommend it highly enough! Hypnotic, groovy, sublime. As I note in the review, Parker is in the midst of a pretty extraordinary run, whether as an ace-in-the-hole sideman or all on his own. Amazingly, this streak doesn't even include what is still the guitarist's most high-profile gig in Tortoise.

But Tortoise is still a going concern — indeed, the band just went on a quick tour this fall. Several band members may be scattered from Chicago these days, but they sound extremely close-knit on this excellent NYC tape. High-energy, in fact, a descriptor that you might not always use when talking about Tortoise. The career-spanning setlist has something for everyone, whether it's the thrilling opener "Gigantes" or the classic throwback to "Tin Cans & Twine." Long live Tortoise!

And hey, you can still check out my TRTS-themed Invisible Hits column over on P-fork.

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Favorite Albums of 2022

I place my wallet in my mouth.  I bite down and rank ‘em.

God's Country - Chat Pile

Once Twice Melody - Beach House

40 oz. to Fresno - Joyce Manor

Blue Rev - Alvvays

sore thumb - Oso Oso

Reset - Panda Bear, Sonic Boom

The Car - Arctic Monkeys

Skinty Fia - Fontaines D.C.

Heartmind - Cass McCombs

A Light for Attracting Attention - The Smile

Cruel Country - Wilco

Ants From Up There - Black Country, New Road

Most Normal - Gilla Band

Hellfire - black midi

The Ruby Cord - Richard Dawson

Pompeii - Cate Le Bon

MOTOMAMI - ROSALIA

Diaspora Problems - Soul Glo

Aethiopes - billy woods

When the Wind Forgets Your Name - Built to Spill

Sons Of - Sam Prekop, John McEntire

Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy - Jeff Parker

Comradely Objects - Horse Lords

Omnium Gatherum - King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

Timewave Zero - Blood Incantation

Time Skiffs - Animal Collective

I Love You Jennifer B - Jockstrap

Deus Arrakis - Klaus Schulze

Fossora - Bjork

Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava -  King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

Visitor - Empath

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe You - Big Thief

It's Almost Dry - Pusha T

Boat Songs - MJ Lenderman

Blue Skies - Dehd

Bajascillators - Bitchin Bajas

Cherry - Daphni

The 7th Hand - Immanuel Wilkins

Being Funny in a Foreign Language - The 1975

Florist - Florist

Music for Four Guitars - Bill Orcutt

Expert in a Dying Field - The Beths

Everything Was Beautiful - Spiritualized

LABYRINTHITIS - Destroyer

Makaya McCraven - In These Times

Finally, New - They Hate Change

Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky - Porridge Radio

Versions of Modern Performance - Horsegirl

Like a Fable - Shintaro Sakamoto

Warm Chris - Aldous Harding

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Bix Picks 2022

20. Tim Bernardes - Mil Coisas Invisiveís (Psychic Hotline)

Sweet and disarming Gentle Brazilian psych pop From a bygone time

19. Sam Gendel - blueblue (Leaving)

More than kind of blue Jazz guitar workouts for late Night meditations

18. Ka - Languish Arts / Woeful Studies (Iron Works)

Monotone tales of Hardscrabble street life backed by Lush strings and no beats

17. Shintaro Sakamoto - Like a Fable (Zelone)

For those who’ve wondered... What if Mac Demarco was Japanese instead?

16. Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful (Fat Possum)

Another gorgeous And painstakingly arranged Sonic masterpiece

15. R.A.P. Ferreira - 5 to the Eye with Stars (Ruby Yacht)

Prolific AF But consistent AF too This might be his best

14. Cate Le Bon - Pompeii (Mexican Summer)

Off-kilter art-pop Whose distant, blank detachment Just pulls you closer

13. Earl Sweatshirt - Sick! (Tan Cressida/Warner)

The mental fog lifts To find Earl at his peak and Showing signs of hope

12. Sam Prekop & John McEntire - Sons Of (Thrill Jockey)

Modular synth leads Backed by lo-fi drum machines Makes bedroom techno

11. Kikagaku Moyo - Kumoyo Island (Guruguru Brain)

Final album from Japanese psych rock warriors Going out on top

10. Alex Izenberg - I’m Not Here (Domino)

Meddle-like vocals Tasteful, Baroque arrangements Pastoral delight

9. Bill Callahan - YTILAER (Drag City)

Extolling virtues Of the sacred and mundane As only Bill can

8. Rich Ruth - I Survived, It’s Over (Third Man)

Indescribable But "new age ambient space Jazz" is a good start

7. Pusha T - It’s Almost Dry (G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam)

Kanye and Pharrell Co-produce this diamond from Cocaine’s Dr. Seuss

6. The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention (XL)

A Radiohead Side project that may as well Be Radiohead

5. Danger Mouse / Black Thought - Cheat Codes (BMG)

Inspired throwback To an old school, classic sound More "boom bap" than "rap"

4. Jeff Parker - Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy (Eremite)

Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy by Jeff Parker ETA IVtet

Long-form and soulful Improvisatory jams From ace jazz quartet

3. Makaya McCraven - In These Times (International Anthem)

Meticulously Crafted jazz, gestating for 6 years. Worth the wait!

2. Billy Woods x Preservation - Aethiopes (Backwoodz Studioz)

Artful production And inspired cameos But all Billy's show

1. Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin - Ghosted (Drag City)

Meditative yet Surprisingly propulsive Wordless alchemy

HONORABLE MENTION (in alphabetical order)

Horace Andy - Midnight Rockers (On-U-Sound) Oren Ambarchi - Shebang (Drag City) Animal Collective - Time Skiffs (Domino) Arctic Monkeys - The Car (Domino) Björk - Fossora (One Little Indian) Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There (Ninja Tune) Alabaster dePlume - Gold: Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love (International Anthem) Destroyer - Labyrinthitis (Merge) Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork (4AD) Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia (Partisan) Duke Garwood - Rogues Gospel (God Unknown) Gwenno - Tresor (Heavenly) Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band - Dear Scott (Modern Sky) Tony Molina - In the Fade (Run for Cover) Osees - A Foul Form (Castle Face) Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Reset (Domino) Daniel Rossen - You Belong There (Warp) Seafoam Walls - XVI (Daydream Library Series) Warpaint - Radiate Like This (Heirlooms/Virgin) Billy Woods x Messiah Muzik - Church (Backwoodz Studioz)

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we've got a few weeks left before the holidays, so tune into no love for ned on wlur from 8pm to midnight tonight to hear something new. last week's show is below and streamable when you have time (or just stick around for the re-air at 10pm tonight)!

no love for ned on wlur – november 25th, 2022 from 8-10pm

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The Quietus | Reviews | Jeff Parker

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The Quietus | Reviews | Jeff Parker

Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy by Jeff Parker ETA IVtet Depending on one’s musical preferences, the name Jeff Parker is likely to elicit a disparate set of associations. Post-rock and indie fans will recognise him as the guitarist for Chicago group Tortoise, with whom he has been playing since their seminal 1998 release TNT. […]

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Jeff Parker

Mondays At The Enfield Tennis Academy

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Victorian Monkey Tennis?

Notes written by a manager of the Alexandra Palace, c.1880? (Haringey Museum AP1/17)

These notes appear in the archives without an author, but display a series of one-line ideas, added over a period of time (months?) for developing the north London pleasure-ground of Alexandra Palace, which was perennially on the verge of bankruptcy. They provide a unique insight into the mind of a harassed Victorian entrepreneur.

Railway timetable given or sold at every Ry Station along lines to & from City & to and from AP with list of AP attractions;  ? charge 1/2d & illustrate nicely and get nearly the cost back

Arrange Waiting Room at Railway - Have at in Central Hall & at each end 

" next train to City ____  To King's Cross ___ [illeg] ___ for respectively

Study towns round Palace, Enfield, Barnet &c.

Subscription Skittle Ground (see the one Mr. Perfect plays at)

Volunteer Ball - have Central Hall gradually close-boarded

Sales of sporting and other dogs by Freeman ([illeg.] Rich called 8/11/79)

Hunters show & jumping Competn as at Lyons Down (see B, Booth, future)

Compare Ry fares without admt. to see what added 

Picturesque villas in the park

Exhibtn to illustrate Old London - Antiquarian & Relics - Photos Moods Maps & Pictures

Leifold & other organists - Foreigners for Saint Saens &c Stainer, Best

Smoking Gallery in Central Hall

No Touting but gentlemanly information given [illeg.] 

next  train leaves at ___ & so on. "Have you shown your children the Japanese Village, Sir?" "Have you seen the new ____" & so on

Panto & opera books shd have a few bars of most popular airs

3rd class Dining room where West Rooms now useless are

Big label with name of piece to be played by Band or sung &c (?Blackboard)

Plenty of information given to Visitors so that programmes not necessary

Print programmes on back of handbills

Steam [illeg.] Railway, Wm Eton 6 Rue des Fermieries, Batignolles, Paris

Offer Prize for the best £10 Piano. Also for Girl Pianists.

Sewing Machine Exhibt.  Prizes for machinists (girls)

Get Ry Co's to give small space on monthly bills for AP Calendar 

AP trains briefly stated & small

Trade Contests - Bartenders, Bricklayers &c

Plant a Maze

Sell Fruit and Cigars at Telegraph office

Exhibition of Taxidermy

Stall for novelties - Elect. Pen zylographing, Yankee Dodges

Big Strong aviary Macaws flying about   ||    Bear Pit

Entrance to theatre from top of Railway stairs

Amuse crowd on Bank Holiday nights with lime light [illeg.] (save gas!)

Make Working Models a really good exhibition

?Electric light for Palace & Park?

Goat Enclosure - high rock work as Jardin d'Acclimiation

Sell Reminiscences of S.G. like Royal Academy does

?Sea water Swimming Bath  (Willing, Had[illeg.], ?Lloyds homemade)

Get some of the features of Polytechnic, Madame Tussaud's. Aquarium (one or two tanks zoological f[illeg.] for specialties)

A Rabbit Warren   |   An Alligator Pond

Push books of admission tickets

Valentines Day Concert of Love Songs, Huge Valentine, Comic figure (as Guy show)

Fairy Groups by Wilson (Cinderella trying on shoes, R.Riding Hood & Wolf &c)

St. Patrick's Day

St. Andrews, St. Crispin's Day (Best[?] Show), French Fete (when?) Italian Fete [illeg.]

Exchange posters with Halls and Theatres

Programmes on sale at all Ry Stations

House to House dely [delivery] of circulars to be systematized

?Glaciarium - see one   ?for Slides

All Fool's Festival a la Guy show

Shows of artificial flowers \ mechanical toys

Mammoth Punch & Judy (Lightfoot)

Biscuit advertisements

Exhibtn of Engravings, Photographs

Exhibitors to pay for their gas

Half Holiday Entmts for Children ?on Satys or Wednys  of a Dissolvg View Polytechnic sort

Cultivate the Religious people, Sunday School Gatherings &c because N.L. so good 

Piscatorial Exhibition at end of fishing season (R. Ag. 78)

Paris Panorama  M.Marie

Exhibtn. Burglars Implements & means to outwit them, safe, weapons &c

(never let Stilemen work together long. The frauds perpetrated are:

Passing 2 at a time \ adults through children's stile \ Ry. tkts through S.T. tile & then cash at Ry.

Always put best men at ticket stile? & doubtful ones on cash

Skipping Ropes - send for, in grounds

Invalid Chairs if only one of Wicker

Doll Show Ancient & Modern Toys contrasted

Make statues of Kings & Queens instructive & great men in each reign &c

Always label gifts of birds[?] &c with names of donors. Get much in this way as advt. for donors.

We ought to be able to tell Excursion parties rates including admn. from any Station named for any number (Gower St. Walworth Rd &c)

Calendar of attractions posted in every Ry carriage of GNR, NLR, GER

Riding School

Get Joint Tckts issued at Crouch End, Edmonton & all stations.

Can more burners be stopped, Central Hall, to enable frequent entire lighting

Can Poultry Show be profitably revived (Nichols, W.J 6 Arnold Rd Tooting)

Ballad Concerts, Classical Concerts, English opera concerts

Meeting of Old Soldiers

Ballon captif

? Bookstall, secondhand books & at Publishers prices

Get gas lower price if more used

Water at 7.5 instead of 9d

Reading Room, Buy Maps & all periodls at trade price

? Subscribe for telegraphic news

Competition among Theatrical Property Masters

Singlestick - Profll & Amateurs, Volunteers

--- Military, All[?] Clubs 

Glee clubs, Chamber Music, Dramatic Recitations

[illeg.] in Latin and other languages - German & French particly

At Easter get chief attractive items of London Xmas pantos

Find employment for unoccupied Stilemen, Ladies [illeg.] Women &c

Prize for best Manifolder Zylograph &C Typewriter

Exhibn of means to do [ditto] - Electric Pen &c

Herriot & Louie & such for Entnts in dull times & Good Friday

Show Type Setting Machine & other interesting machine

Rail Staff tkts?  Pay lower price for Waiters, Choir &c than for general

Make W. green Doorkeeper's room Refreshment Bar

Get Paintings by Princesses? Buy.  2y Collection of Royal Artwork

Do a big Trotting match on a Race Day

Show [illeg. line due to folder paper]

advertised by R.Smith Ho. Nurserymen, Worcester

Prize for best amateur Water colour Sketch of grove

Grow water-cress in grounds

" cucumbers & sell them, letting Public cut them

Fancy biscuits to be made in Public & sold

[illeg.] Exhibit Ball [illeg.] water jet &c &c.

Milk & Cows or his idea of model farm combined

? Admit all children free or pass them free to Circus or -

? Cheap arrangemt for Mondays

Stiles to record by Electricity in Central Office

Alls Tkts Compy & paid shd have name & address on front

Get Wood Green Stn called A Park & W.G.

If Circus, Band specially for it?

Special Trains from City not stopping [illeg.] KX  ?at FP?

Exhibitors stalls in Central Hall & Corridors (Get a Naturalist)

Chess with living men

Encourage Amateur Walking & Runnung

Make Trotting Track perfectly level

Alter Bicycle Track

Make Stand over Ref Pavillion for Trotting or Buy a Stand

Cinder Track for Running

Alter Excursion Tariff Reconcile contradictions

Make Statues instructive by labels

Popcorn should be made & sold well away from sweetmeats

Choir Tickets to be limited in their date of admission

James B's [illeg.] for children's stiles

Blotting pad with sketches of AP & Calendar (see Brown B Kunder 7)

Shooting at glass balls thrown from spring

£7 A [LFA?] to hasten good housebuilding outside. Use surplus shrubs A. Park

Sell foods on commission

Morgan promised favourable advertising arrangement

Arrange a simple plan for sale of tickets available by Rail like Police Fete but simpler to suit Tonic-Sol-Fa people &c

? At Palace High level entr. combined work of Ry Tkt people & our Stilemen

D ___ ? after stiles so that visitors can use either stairs

Many more Ludgate Trains. More direct City Trains less changes at F Park

Erect earth works & Camp as at Ulundi Edowe, Rorkes Drift

? get the verulable defenders to undertake it?

Electric Tram in grounds (or Steam) [illeg.] from Wood Green

[illeg.] Deep Park

Festoon of Ivy Grove entrances  Ivy specialties

? offer a prize for Ivy Figures

Get Entce to Grove from Road & from Ry

Cultivate Miseltoe in the Grove

Advt at bottom of Tumbler glasses seen as one drinks

Dr Rosenthal of 52 Woburn Place & 110 Leadenhall St. offered to bring over by Emperors [illeg.] the best German Band (Army) asked £60 for one evg

Prize for [illeg.] Cornet Playing & other Instrumentalists (Girl Pianists) by Shirley [illeg.]

Watercress Exhibtn as held at __

Get a London office

Staff Bar where B & R's office now is

? Sell tickets instead of taking money at Entrances

? By people to divide by separate doors those with tkts including admns & those who will have to pay [illeg.]

Give away Daily programmes to those who pay for adm (see below)

Get GER to run trains from Enfield &c to meet down trains at [illeg.]

Hold an Autumn Bird Show (never yet done)

Find out about Water Shoes to float people across lake

?2/6 or [illeg.] if after a certain time for promenade

Machinery show as at Kilburn

Java Sparrows in Conservatory

Get Police to accept Staff Railway Tickets 

A Potters Wheel at Work

Reduce City Rail fares 1/6 3rd cl keeping 1st and 2nd as now?

Get Foresters, Odd Fellows &c on liberal terms

Settle Horse show, Dog Show, Machny exhbitn, Races & Trotting early

Ransome's Complete primer of work in Machinery kept where also (or S. Wolssom's Patent) place coles, ivory turning, printing, coventry weaving, silhouettes, cigarette making, carving meershaum pipes, Pencock's collection of Eggs, Picture frame making, card printing, sausage making, ? beer bottling, bottle cleaning, moot mending

Settle Rates, Gas, Water, Railway contract, before [illeg.]

Turn Bazaar into conservatory

? Put K & 2 into present conservatory

Get Races & all other licenses transferred first

Ry get % from Ry Cos from people travelling with free tickets by Ry

Get Field for Races transferred from B & R by  GNR

Ry Improvements - Better S.L. traffic via Ludgate - Better [illeg.] West End, Midland branch & cannot delay at York Rd be abolished? 

Horses, Ponies, Donkeys & Goat chaises on line in Park

Finsbury Pk Tramline prolonged to Wood Green

Open air ochestra for singing in Grove. ? Use small orchestra in Centl. Hall

Scarboro' plan of ascent & descent to ticket ground & Wood Green entc.

Races make saddling paddock in the angle by Weighing Room & chge extra

Fire drill in public - Volunteers & Regulars  [illeg.]

[illeg.] La Crosse  -  Football  - Billard Matches

Change bills with all theatres, music halls, running grounds

Squirrels in Grove - Rabbit warren

Big collection of Chimpanzees

Can Alphand of Paris be useful

Entrance to Grove

Competition of Facia Writers.  ?J.B. always at work in public

Scotch Buffet

Competition of Theatre Bands of London

Naturalists Competition in Taxidermy

Let backs of handbills be instructive - grammatical errors &c

With illustrations of possible

Artificial skating rink

Cart Horse Show (held Agric. Hall)

- get all Pickford's horses on say a Good Friday?

Season Prog to have train serve from all Stations tabulated

Ry sell Ry Tkts in sheets of 20 perforated, at reduced price

Ry sell S. Tkts at reduced price to Choir, Ry people etc.

Flock of Pigeons a la guildhall [illeg] Race

Authorised Itinerant Vendors on Race Days

? An Aquarium - Just the sensational tanks - Anemones &c

People dining should not pay for admin.

Use Banquetg Hall for big Billard Matches, Winter Evg Entmts &c.

Source: The Cat's Meat Shop

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Daniel Villarreal – Lados B LP (International Anthem)

Second solo album from Dos Santos percussionist Daniel Villarreal, in a trio with Jeff Parker on guitar and Anna Butterss on bass. Villlarreal’s previous solo album Panama 77 was fully embellished Latin fusion with funk and jazz and synths, yet he achieves similar, perhaps superior results in this stripped-down lineup from the same sessions (which tracks, given Parker’s esteemed pedigree of Tortoise and reams of others, most recently with the groundbreaking work he and Butterss achieved with their Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy album). Villarreal is a disciple of the 16-beat, a very busy drummer who fills each bar with hi-hats, congas, cowbell and various hand percussives all draped around an easy groove, perfect backgrounds for Parker to phrase around. Buttress' bass takes the lead on the pensive, lounge-borne “Bring It,” a highlight, as is pretty much every other track here. At no point does it feel like the strings are taking over, so if you wanted that, get lost – Daniel’s got a record to do here, and do he does. As some manner of challenge, the penultimate track is called "Things Can Be Calm," with Villarreal exchanging his kit for a thumb piano while Parker and Butterss meditate over top for a full nine minutes, which provides a nice breather around solid work by a vibrant Chicago talent on display. (Doug Mosurock)