In the wake of the latest acclaimed release from Mustafa Stefan Dill’s Love Unfold the Sun, Explode Yourself, the ever-inventive, ever-expressive Dill (guitar, oud) brings a new free-improv quartet, Love Unfold the Moon, to the stage at Entropy Gallery in Santa Fe on July 11 to celebrate its first release, Hidden Promises in Joined Terrains, Apex Emerging. (On July 2, Love Unfold the Sun will make a much-anticipated appearance at the Outpost in Albuquerque.)
“My level of I-don’t-give-a-fuckery is so high right now,” Mustafa Stefan Dill, oudist, guitarist, composer, told me on the phone. He meant that in a positive way. Explode Yourself, the new release from Love Unfold the Sun, is a liberated celebration of life, unconcerned with fitting itself into any box‚ blowing the box wide open, in fact. This Friday, the band celebrates the album’s release at Paradiso in Santa Fe.
The Santa Fe/Albuquerque-based quartet Love Unfold the Sun and the Boston-based band Club d’Elf share a number of characteristics. They both blend Middle Eastern/African and Western elements, and incorporate an exotic instrument. Texture plays an important role in the musical development of their material. Flow is prized over destination. Yet, even with these similarities, the two groups make music that is quite different.
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