Zoe Amba - Sun (VINYL) 
 
Release Date: August 22nd 
 
Zoh Amba has been steadily building a big reputation for herself on the NY free jazz scene for a few years now under the stewardship of the likes of elders of the scene William Parker, John Zorn and David Murray.  She's released a number of records already in her short career working with musicians such as Chris Corsano, Bill Orcutt, Francisco Mela, as well as a member of the band Beings with Jim White and Steve Gunn. 
 
On Sun, Amba introduces a newly assembled group with a set of compositions that blur the line between performance and process – where both the music and the act of capturing it unfold in real time, guided in part by improvisational recording techniques. As a bandleader, Amba navigates the edges of an improvisational delta, where spiritual jazz and free folk emerge not as separate genres, but as tributaries of the same current, each flowing from a shared belief in music as a sacred force.  
 
The decision to release Sun on Smalltown Supersound was born from a common connection to the late German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, who was both a spiritual mentor to Amba and released several records on the label. And while the album is rooted in American folk traditions, it’s Brötzmann’s fearless spirit – itself an immense historical catalyst for European free jazz – that runs like a current through the ensemble’s musical collaboration and its experimental recording techniques