Time-Warp Ambient Groove of LANZ and Kris Allen
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English - September 28, 2023 16:00 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 128 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts Music Music Interviews wnyc new york public radio npr soundcheck music art technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Ballard is the name of the new album credited to LANZ & Kris Allen. Lanz is Benjamin Lanz, the trombonist and composer who plays with The National and Beirut and numerous other bands. Kris Allen is a sax player, bandleader and educator. But when you put them together, it's like Brian Eno and Sun Ra went to a My Bloody Valentine show, through perhaps a krautrock or post-rock filter. The result is a trippy batch of instrumentals built from highly processed electroacoustic sounds, sometimes maddeningly catchy and other times ambient and cool. LANZ & Kris Allen, along with drummer Robin Baytas, play some of this music, in-studio.
Set list: "Panenka", "Let Me, Please", "Rabona"