Kiefer - Kickinit AloneCalifornian keyboardist & beatmaker Kiefer (birthname Kiefer Shackelford) drops his debut LP on Leaving Records, which has enough jazz piano chops to transform L. A.'s Low End Theory into a smokey speak easy. The title track from Kiefer's debut album, Kickinit Alone, is a striking entry to this lineage of hip hop inextricably tethered to jazz. Kickinit Alone moves with a patient step, it's short piano phrase looping like it was ripped from a dusty

with lots of tremolo-riffing and blast beats

My Madam 4 is a love

It was premiered in 1990 for four mixed solo voices and organ

extraordinary talent

Professor at Hochschule for Music and Theatre in Zurich

Duncan flips the tunes on their heads

" the set includes the rhythmically challenging

Bernardo Storace and Niccolò Piccinni

no matter where they come from

His music blends elements of jungle

Veteran bassist of 30/70

" a song that has been near and dear to her heart since she was a child