Contact Wave: Emma-Jean Thackray
08.01.21
Co-hosted by Chris Kissel and Chuck Soo-Hoo, the twice-monthly dublab program Contact Wave enthusiastically celebrates the best experimental, avant-garde, psychedelic, and off-the-grid music crafted in L.A. and beyond.
This week’s episode features composer and multi-instrumentalist Emma-Jean Thackray, whose new album Yellow is out now on Thackray’s own Warp Records-affiliated imprint, Movementt. Her 2020 EPs Um Yang 음 양 and Rain Dance marked Thackray out as standard-bearer of a spiritually-minded, dancefloor-angled take on jazz that stood at a slight remove from the broader UK scene. But Yellow feels like a further step into a fresh and distinct space. Its 14 tracks bloom with brass and strings, choral segments and ecstatic chants.
Tracklist:
**Emma-Jean Thackray Interview** Emma-Jean Thackray – Say Something – from “Yellow” (Movementt) (2021) Emma-Jean Thackray – Golden Green – from “Yellow” (Movementt) (2021) Emma-Jean Thackray – Venus – from “Yellow” (Movementt) (2021) Joshua Abrams – Translucent – from “Magnetoception” (eremite) (2020) Kiefer – i remember this picture – from “When There’s Love Around” (Stones Throw) (2021) Jeff Parker – Slight Freedom – from “Slight Freedom” (eremite) (2020) Claire Chase, Alex Peh, Susie Ibarra – Kolubrí (Hummingbird) – from “Susie Ibarra: Talking Gong” (New Focus) (2021) Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit – What Have We Given? – from “April is the cruelllest month” (Blank Forms) (2019) Midwife – God is a Cop – from “Luminol” (The Flenser) (2021) Aisha Orazbayeva – John Cage: Weight Whiskus – from “Music for Violin Alone” (SN Variations) (2020) TJO – Long Key – from “Dispatches from the Drift” (s/r) (2021) Mena – Matando Hormigas – from “Música para viajes interdepartamentales vol. 3” (2018) SABIWA & QUEIMADA – You – from “Tomorrow you said yesterday” (s/r) (2020) Lisel – Stalls – from “Mycelial Echo” (2021) X.Y.R. – when i was a boy (ecovillage cover) – from “Waves Tapes” (Constellation Tatsu) (2021)
