Groove, Voice, & Transformation with Ishmael Ali
Ishmael Ali’s cello work moves through a remarkable range of terrain on Burn the Plastic, Sell the Copper. Jazz rhythms inflected with pointillist electronics create subdued but still infectious grooves. Improvisational rivers flow through the record’s ten tracks, carrying tactile string timbres and quick movements across the fingerboard that spring sharp-angled, strange melodies into existence. […]