Brice, Golding, Kaiser, Moore, Prévost

Not much to go on so far but enough to realise the need to wake up and smell the coffee and prick up your ears for more of this Ed Pettersen-produced album to be released next month. The Secret Handshake with Danger, Vol. One, recorded in London last year and which is to be issued by New York label 577 in March is a coalescing of AMM legend drummer Eddie Prévost, Dem Ones saxophone eminence Binker Golding, guitarist Henry Kaiser (Eugene Chadbourne, Yo Miles!), guitarist N. O. Moore and free-improviser bassist Olie Brice.

577 Records · Olie Brice, Binker Golding, Henry Kaiser, N.O. Moore, Eddie Prévost: Excerpt

Issuing label 577 note that ''the volume is entirely spontaneous composition, recorded and mixed in a single day in a Westpoint London studio, hours before the official national lockdown.'' Out on 12 March.

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Joy Harjo, poet laureate of the USA and first Native American to hold the position, plays saxophone and flute, sings and recites on I Pray For My Enemies. With a stellar band who include Peter Buck of R.E.M. and Mike McCready of Pearl Jam the most jazz-relevant track certainly in terms of the lyrics on a stirring collection is perhaps 'Midnight is a Horn Player'. Harjo says: ''My grandmother Naomi Harjo played sax in Indian Territory, before Oklahoma statehood.'' The title track is also a must, a veritable chant based on one of Harjo's most cherished poems. Released by Sunyata Records on 5 March

Brice, Golding, Kaiser, Moore, Prévost

Joy Harjo, I Pray For My Enemies