A posthumous release for the brilliantly innovative New York Chicago-raised jazz trumpeter with punk ethic or died last year aged just 39, with wonderful experimental sounds following 2017’s Fly Or Die and 2019’s Fly Or Die II – Bird Dogs of Paradise albums. This release brings her trumpet alongside trombone, flute, clarinet, strings, double bass, keyboards, percussion and, while many are instrumental, there are also wolf howls, Take Over The World comes with wild whoops and spoken vocals (“Back, back to the land!”) amid the swirling rhythms before her trumpet stirs the momentum even more. Other standouts include the brilliant nine-minute Burning Grey with more of the same, and Branch singing: “Everything feels broken, crippling or token, you wonder why the world slips away, burning grey.” There’s beautiful, gentle cover version of The Meat Puppets’ song The Mountain in which she goes into blues-folk mode, Aurora Rising, Borealis Dancing and Baba Louie, which breaks into African thumb pianos. An unheralded, inspiring, eclectic talent, underrated in her field, a “psychedelic warrior for peace” who has sadly left us far too early. Out on International Anthems.
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