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Personnel on this album, David Esware on tenor sax, Matthew Shipp on piano, William Parker on bass, and Yermo E.

Brown on drums.

And so Yermo was stacked for that one.

And then just lots of very well-known jazz names, of course, as usual.

You've got Brad Meldow, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, legendary jazz bassist.

He's doing one of these residencies where he's going to do multiple shows spotlighting different classic albums of his.

Vijay Iyer, Bill Frizzell.

Read this way, Solfège is an invocation, a cosmological map sung into existence.

And if we follow this thread outward and consider the superimposition of vocal invocations from traditions across the world, the question arises, Might the amalgamation of these many voices be pointing towards something like a universal tone, or what William Parker calls universal tonality, capable of carrying humanity into a higher form of consciousness? This question has been a millennia-old preoccupation, and it is also a principal axis in your practice, as you kind of spoke to.

And you also spoke to it in a different way, quote, working with vibration means working with the very fabric of the universe, end quote.

And you've situated this within a broader cross-disciplinary vision, quote, working in a cross-disciplinary way reflects the multidimensionality that I experience in life and intend to express in art.

vicuna's reverence also extends to the orisha yamaya who in addition to being the deity of the ocean represents the infinite cosmic womb within which our universe is contained These are but two of many examples of divine feminine that has been present across human spiritual life since time immemorial.

In your performance at Vancouver New Music in 2025, you invoke the Dakinis, fierce feminine embodiments of enlightened energy, whose name literally translates to sky dancer.

alongside William Parker's composition, Cloud Texture, Death Has Died Today.

The moving recording of this piece on the album Universal Tonality is sung and recited by the venerable Lena Conquest, who brings to it Something like a lament of divine femininity itself, quote, the world has turned on its head, killing itself, forgetting that the real truth is that which is inside us, end quote.

Thank you.

Staying up for a bit more, we had In My City from Nu Jazz, No Now Go, Organic Grooves, William Parker, Hamid Drake, who played at Cafe Oto this past weekend.

Then Kukan Kambali from Alfonso Soliano, Incredible Malaysian.

composer and then a new one from the band Curio Curio underneath this is of course I'm butchering this Portuguese but I need to I need to work on this because I'm going Rio Carnival next year let me know if anyone else is going to be there Thank you.