Pre-Order: Mary Gauthier * Reckoning [New LP] RSD 25 Ta Ukarinka and Zheani —

Ta Ukarinka and Zheani — a hand-picked lineup curated by Danny Brown

all the way through to the orchestral Back To Life

while Hasaan himself talks of the pianist Elmo Hope as the man who brought him closer to the 'mystery of music'

and even the Cars

The result is expansive and future-facing: a sound that honors her roots while unlocking new creative dimensions

Pre-Order: Mary Gauthier * Reckoning [New LP] RSD 25 Ta Ukarinka and Zheani —Reckoning is a dense, carefully nuanced, profoundly complex text, though all nine songs are presented as directly as possible: Mary's voice, her guitar, bits of harmonica. Folk music, of a kind, but not a broadside. Nothing so easy as that. Topical songs with a long view, because she's seen and lived too much of it. Mary's most celebrated songs I Drink, Mercy Now, Drag Queens in Limousines are confessional stories, closely observed, clear eyed and