The Beloved Music

"More than thirty years after the death of Albert Ayler, Flaherty and Corsano's music is the most compelling evidence I've heard in some time that music like this still needs to be played." - DUSTED

The Beloved Music is the most thoroughly realized blueprint for a post-hardcore take on improvised jazz to date from the duo of legendary long-serving New England saxophonist Paul Flaherty and young firebrand drummer Chris Corsano. Forsaking the call-and-response modes of countless improvising ensembles, the duo deal more in a simultaneity of sound - an elemental non-stop gush of ideas, rhythms and epiglottal forms that at points feels like a small-group response to the orchestral conceptions of the Peter Brötzmann and John Coltrane big bands. Between collaborations and tours with Wolf Eyes, Nels Cline (Wilco), Joe McPhee, Six Organs of Admittance, Dream/ Aktion Unit (Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore) and their own band Cold Bleak Heat (Greg Kelley, No Neck Blues Band's Matt Heyner), Flaherty and Corsano have coalesced and elated serious jazzbos alongside noise fans and freak-folk followers.