MARC RIORDAN - "Life Systems" LPMarc Riordan Life Systems LP (Sophomore Lounge, 2021) Edition of 300 with hand stamped center labels stickered CMYK jackets. "Marc Riordan carries the difficult musical obstacle of virtuosity. Something, personally, I've never had to bear. Musicians as technically skilled as he typically struggle (counter intuitively) to express anything as powerfully evocative as his new solo album "Life Systems" does so effortlessly. They know too much, they

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Some of the pieces in the show make use of the textural and chromatic qualities of wrinkled foil wrappers

Take the way she uses breaks on her latest EP

or a mid-point between early Blues Control and Foodman's blissful mutations of Footwork

governed by the forces surrounding her

«Fief Fef» is a succulent sandwich of Karima F’s library of musical tastes: bass

net: Fitting that this offering would come from a Brooklyn native immersed since the mid-1980’s in the borough’s deeply ingrained reggae and dancehall culture

and the rest of us can't argue with that

Nobody stopped playing with the intention that it was permanent