For those unaware, Madre Vaca Records is a home base for creative music. From ancient songs to psychedelic rock operas and free jazz adventures, the music they support ventures deep into the forest of musical exploration.

They champion improvisational music, original composition, and unusual arrangements that bend their expectations of what music can be. They make warm, high-fidelity recordings that combine adventurous performance with striking composition and improvisation.

Thus Madre Vaca is their homegrown ensemble, a collective of wizard musicians. Out of sound, they weave fantasies, nightmares, seductions and hallucinations. Listen at your own risk!

Their brand new album is entitled Yukon and which showcases the band performing originals ranging from infectious fusion to adventurous post-bop. The quartet features inventive solos from guitarist Jarrett Carter and keyboardist Jonah Pierre with additional grooves provided by bassist Thomas Milovac and drummer Benjamin Shorstein.

1. Blue Bird (3:52)
2. Portraits of a Swan (6:20)
3. Yukon (3:52)
4. Dormant 07:17)
5. They Say (6:15)
6. Slab City (3:40)
7. Titan’s Folly (6:39)
8. Tangle Talk (4:38)

This dutifully impassioned and vibrantly cooking new recording opens on the fervent finger-snapper Blue Bird and then brings us the dulcetly-hued ambiance of Portraits of a Swan, the emotively laid-back title track Yukon and then we get brought forth the melodious Dormant.

Along next is the more stridently confident rhythms within They Say and that is in turn backed by the smoothly funky guitar piece Slab City, the set rounding out on the low slung, at times jauntily stoic piano balladry of Titan’s Folly, it all coming to a close on the fun and upbeat Tangle Talk.

Musicians:
Jarrett Carter - Guitar
Jonah Pierre - Piano and Keyboards
Thomas Milovac - Bass
Benjamin Shorstein - Drums

Official Purchase Link

www.madrevaca.org