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Cat: IARC 0027LP. Rel: 21 Oct 19
Jazz

Side 1 - Track 1. Birds Of Paradise Side 1 - Track 2. Prayer For Amerikkka (part 1 & 2) Side 1 - Track 3. Lesterlude Side 1 - Track 4. Twenty-Three N Me, Jupiter Redux Side 1 - Track 5. Whales Side 2 - Track 1. Simple Silver Surfer Side 2 - Track 2. Bird Dogs Of Paradise Side 2 - Track 3. Nuevo Roquero Estereo Side 2 - Track 4. Love Song

In 2017, Jaimie Branch emerged from Chicago's spiritual and experimental jazz underground with a debut album of rare inventiveness. Two years on, the avant-garde, improvisational trumpeter is finally ready to offer up a sequel, "Fly Or Die II: Bird Dogs Of Paradise". It sees Branch wrap distinctive trumpet refrains - some played in a traditional manner, others mutilated by effects units - around a myriad of off-kilter and improvised backing tracks. While much of the instrumentation is from the jazz playbook, a number of tracks make great use of xylophone, mbira and other exotic but melodic percussion instruments. The album's standout moment, "Prayer For Amerikkka (Part 1 & 2)" sees her go even further, with vocalists and beat poets narrating a politically charged, future spiritual jazz anthem.