Zhang Alex Hungtai * Dras [New LP] 5/22/20 and bandleader Asher Gamedze

and bandleader Asher Gamedze

Rawhide (THE GREATEST WESTERN THEMES)

This is one of the earliest recordings of Ford’s extraordinary career

demonic torture objects limning the edges of the psyche

Zhang Alex Hungtai * Dras [New LP] 5/22/20 and bandleader Asher GamedzeAlex Zhang Hungtai stands in stillness on 'Dras', but it's the kind of stillness that contains entire ranges of possibility. Recorded in 2019 inside Montreal's Saint Joseph Oratory (right before a piano demolition, no less), these nine pieces sat dormant on his hard drive through pandemic years until something finally clicked. What emerges now feels like watching someone trace the contours of their own interior landscape, each melodic line a careful