On Repeat: Sax, SP-404MKII, Organ

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all. ▰ Saxophonist Josh Johnson is part of both the quintet SML and guitarist Jeff Parker’s ETA IVtet. Here he is in trio mode, playing “Reece” off his forthcoming album, Animative, due out next week, running his instrument through harmonizing effects, in cahoots with SML bassist Anna Butterss (also in Parker’s group) and drummer Ben Lumsdaine (also a prolific producer, engineer, and mixer). ▰ Takeo Watanabe is new, I believe, to me. He does these multi-camera videos of himself performing — mostly solo, but not always — ambient electronic music, sometimes outdoors, sometimes in, lots of different combinations of equipment. I’ve enjoyed every one of his videos. This is a good place to begin: ▰ This isn’t “on repeat” in the sense I’ve been listening to it over and over, but I did…