Archie Shepp meets Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio – Conversations [2LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop The music of MAI MAO

The music of MAI MAO seems to proceed by opposites and juxtaposition

and multi-instrumentalist Jim O'Rourke was born in Chicago in 1969

Neil Campbell (of Vibracathedral Ochestra)

"Pioneering electroacoustic and tape music by Henk Badings assisted by Dick Raaijmakers (Kid Baltan) from the Hanover Opera Ballet production of Evolutions choreographed by Yvonne Georgi

Archie Shepp meets Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio – Conversations [2LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop The music of MAI MAO"If Conversations celebrates the memory, the artistic and spiritual heritage of bassist Fred Hopkins, an historical member of the revolutionary AACM of Chicago who died in January 1999, it also marks the amazing collaboration between the Ritual Trio of Kahil El'Zabar (with Ari brown and Malachi Favors) and the intrepid veteran Archie Shepp, the great voice of the '70 afro free jazz. Being a tribute that invites to an intimate memory, almost an