Over the last year, whispers surrounding SML have escalated into outright evangelism. The Los Angeles quintet’s live performances — dub-informed, jazz-rooted, groove-obsessed, and driven by collective improvisation — have turned converts everywhere from hometown rooms to this year’s Big Ears Festival. With Spontaneous Music Live, their new album for International Anthem, SML finally documents that experience in full: two sprawling, unedited performances recorded at Zebulon that capture the band shape-shifting in real time. Ahead of SML’s June 26th and 27th performances at Teragram Ballroom celebrating Aquarium Drunkard’s 21st anniversary, we gathered all five members . . .
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