Michael Janisch – Outside the Paradigm

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Since landing in London a decade ago, Minnesota-born bassist Michael Janisch hasn’t done things by halves.

Setting up Whirlwind Recordings in 2010 to release his debut solo album Purpose Built, the label has rapidly grown into a buzzing hive of contemporary jazz, notable for its many transatlantic collaborations over some 60 releases. Back with an expansive double album, Paradigm Shift, Janisch draws on free improv and electronics to twist his music into new forms. Kevin Le Gendre discovers this is all par for the course for this restless renaissance man

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