***Don’t miss the ‘Got a Code?’ Button off to the side to access
presales*** This spring, BADBADNOTGOOD will be bringing their genre
defying album, Mid Spiral suite: Chaos, Order and Growth, on the road,
featuring a special performance with Baby Rose, of their joint EP,
Slow Burn. The trio called on some of their closest friends and
collaborators, BADBADNOTGOOD touring member Felix Fox-Pappas (keys)
and a few key-players in the Toronto jazz scene including Kaelin
Murphy (trumpet), Juan Carlos Medrano Magallenes (percussion) and LA
musician Tyler Lott (guitar), for an intensive and productive one-week
of recording at Valentine Studios in Los Angeles in February 2024. The
result is the Mid Spiral suite: Chaos, Order and Growth, which will be
performed along with live reinterpretations of their previous
releases. The Mid Spiral suite exploits instrumental jazz at its core
allowing for BADBADNOTGOOD to continue to push the boundaries of how
they integrate a limitless range of genres and musicianship into their
compositions. For the Valentine sessions, the trio invited additional
musicians to provide more voices of instrumentation, resulting in a
deeply collaborative and expansive new sound. As the trio sifted
through the weeks’ worth of material, it was clear that three
distinct moods emerged, a deeper reflection of where the musicians are
within their own personal lives, along with the state of the wider
world: Chaos, Order, and Growth. Since the release of their late-2021
acclaimed album Talk Memory, BADBADNOTGOOD has been steady at work.
The alt-jazz ensemble also received their fifth GRAMMY nomination,
this time for Best Remixed Recording for their remix of Turnstile’s
“Alien Love Call,” taken from the New Heart Designs EP. In January
BADBADNOTGOOD released “Take What’s Given,” featuring emerging
Houston vocalist reggie, which followed a string of one-off singles
with collaborators including Charlotte Day Wilson on “Sleeper,”
1999 WRITE THE FUTURE, Westside Gunn plus Conway The Machine on
“MiNt cHoCoLaTe” and Jonah Yano on “the ordinary is ordinary
because it ordinarily repeats.” Further, BADBADNOTGOOD contributed
to Daniel Caesar’s 2023 album Never Enough, worked with rising
artist Elmiene on an edit of his single “Marking My Time” and
contributed to the Talking Heads Stop Making Sense tribute album with
a cover of “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)” with Norah
Jones. Knockdown Center and Bowery Presents 18+
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