The Holy Grailof Macroeconomics

Zane Alexander S.B. leads the Holy Ghost Ensemble, a 13-piece band of distinguished San Diego musicians, through a structured improvisation that blends jazz, classical, and new textures in an idiom of his own.

The second album by underground rock-and-beyond shapeshifters The Holy Family comes complete with a heavy concept for the psychedelically inclined, and pairs this with music which does this justice and then some. Go Zero follows up the British group’s widely praised self-titled debut from 2021 and – says foundational member David Jason Smith – “is based on a hypothetical theory that there is no such thing as ‘the future’. We are continually moving forward into our past until we arrive at our birth – creation – the Tree Of Knowledge… or ‘Going Zero’, as I’ve termed it.” It figures, then, that over some 40 minutes the five musicians conjure a sound that exhibits an affinity with great experimental totems down the ages, in a manner that’s avowedly forward-facing and stamped with their own identity.

In April 2022 The Holy Family played the legendary Roadburn Festival in the Netherlands and enthralled a packed room. Now, two years on we are extremely happy to be able to share with you the live recording of this memorable event.

A captivating chronicle of building in modern-day Charleston, making a case for architecture based on historical precedent, local context, and the ability to delight

Karol Anbild was born in Katowice on February 16, 1925, into a miner’s family. His father, an amateur musician and a member of Silesian brass bands, was his first teacher of music. Karol attended a primary school in Piotrowice until 1938, but the outbreak of World War Two deprived him of the opportunity to receive a solid education, including in music. As a boy of 15, he was deported to Schweidnitz as a forced farm labourer. Having escaped from there, he enrolled at the secondary music school in Katowice in order to avoid another forced labour deportation. In 1943, however, he had to suspend his education again. Mobilized into the German army, he was sent to France, from where he escaped after the invasion of the allied forces. He joined the Polish Armed Forces in the West and was posted to Scotland. It was there that he started his artistic activity, giving concerts for soldiers with his own ensemble.