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ATTITUDE! - Pause & Effect - extraordinary free-jazz trio of Rose Tang, Ayumi Ishito, and Wen-Ting Wu (ESP-Disk)

Rose Tang, a Mongol from Sichuan, plays in about 30 bands and ensembles in New York and Seattle. Ayumi Ishito, from Japan, plays in a plethora of bands along the jazz/rock spectrum. Wen-Ting Wu, from Taiwan, combines jazz drive and classical rigor. She was in Golden Melody Award-winning band Chang & Lee and Hello Nico before she moved to New York.

This extraordinary NYC trio combines free jazz and post-punk with pointed commentary about issues of race, gender, the pandemic, and political autonomy. The group came together to play one song at an event. ESP-Disk’, already familiar with the separate work on the NYC scene of all three members, immediately invited them to make an album. After intensive rehearsals, the members recorded the album in a one-day session, then reunited during the pandemic to add words about its effect to an existing instrumental on “8 Steps/7 O’Clock.” This album is simultaneously part of ESP-Disk's Drive To Revive Weird Rock and an extension of the label's famed free-jazz legacy.