Pianist Jason Moran, sound sculpture BlankFor.Ms, and drummer Marcus Gilmore reunite for their second album of boundary pushing live and electronically processed music with 2026’s Shards. The follow-up to 2023’s Refract, the album once again finds the trio crafting textural soundscapes that straddle the line between modal post-bop and spacey experimental electronic music. While blending jazz improvisation with electronic production is by no means a novel idea, with a tradition going at least as far back as Miles Davis’ 1969 album In a Silent Way, Moran and company bring a live, in-the-moment approach to their work that stands out. Rather than reworking Moran and Gilmore’s playing in post-production, Tyler Gilmore (aka BlankFor.Ms) instead…
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The music of BlankFor.ms, aka Tyler Gilmore, emphasises duality, at its core representing both the calm and chaos of everyday life. The Brooklyn-based ambient artist is known for his disruption and manipulation of degraded tape loops, taking a medium which is by definition repetitive and making it unpredictable, shadowing the beats with slow, shifting synths which are sometimes sinister, sometimes glorious.
Gilmore’s 3rd solo album contains audible elements of his 2023 jazz-electronica album Refract, released in collaboration with pianist Jason Moran and drummer Marcus Gilmore. ‘Crail Family Post Office’ is where this is most apparent, with somewhat atonal and seemingly improvised bleeps dotted in rapid succession throughout.