Stretching out with other worldly and US jazz influenced music

Nik Bartsch's Ronin are rather otherworldly I think.

Tete Monteliu :

A blind Spanish Catalonia jazz pianist with a great articulation sense :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mawuDk1zi18&list=PL32HQtDvkfKk8iJBAoV7FKF-Luqal67Xp

@mahgister great recommendation, this guy is amazing! 

Sometimes in a trance, I feel in my core that CAN is jazz…

@tomic601 yeah, I can see that... Actually I think Connie Plank produced some tracks for Duke Ellington

Love CAN, love Neu! too, another Plank-produced German band from the same era

@whart, 

I’ll thrown down one I mentioned in the earlier thread: Cochemea Gastelum- All My Relations. I think it qualifies as "other worldly" both in the spiritual sense-and the "other culture" sense- Native American chanting, percussion and some wicked horn playing through a wah-wah. 

Agreed. I hear every form of percussion in this album from the original traditional indigenous americans native different cadences of drumming to some very similar to north and south India’s sounding finger drumming. This is an album of music one might have to listen to a few times to get it. Very off the beaten path, fantastic stuff. 

It’s interesting, fascinating that you would bring up american indian traditional indigenous music culture as it was america’s own Charley Patton the Grandfather of Delta Blues was of indian descent and is said to gather a lot of his rhythms from that community to create his Delta Blues.

I'm down with the Delta blues- I'm partial to Skip James -the original tracks, not the re-do's once he was re-discovered. I know Revenant/John Fahey did a huge retrospective of Charlie Patton-won a slew of Grammys for it, not that awards are a measure, but it was notable when released. I find the young "blues detectives" who hunted down some of the original bluesmen to be fascinating-- they weren't all accredited scholars, but they knew the music from the '78s.