Jazz
Full Sun Records · 6 November 2026
Bass clarinettist Ziv Taubenfeld released “Song of the Weeds” on his own Full Sun Records label on 6 November, in a quartet with trumpeter Luis Vicente, double bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Jeff Williams. According to the credits, every composition is Taubenfeld’s, and he also plays gong and bells. The album was recorded in summer 2026 at Namouche Studios in Lisbon, with Joaquim Monte, and mixed and mastered by Marc Schots.
It’s six tracks and just under 34 minutes. Three carry their dedication in the title: “The Village” is for Abdullah Ibrahim; “Mumin the Minimalist”, the longest at almost 12 minutes, for Robert Wyatt; and “Under the Ab Tree” for Ab Baars.
The album’s notes start in Taubenfeld’s garden, with the plants growing there. “The compositions are planted. They ask for care and attention, and they invite musicians and listeners to meet again and again,” he writes. “Beneath those compositions, we find the song of the weeds.”
The physical edition is a homemade affair: a 100-copy CD with a kraft paper cover screen-printed near Taubenfeld’s Lisbon flat and designed by his brother, Ariel Taubenfeld, and a 200-copy vinyl run pressed in Portugal by Grama Pressing. On the label’s Bandcamp, the previous release is “Nomads”, by Ziv Taubenfeld Full Sun, which came out on 6 September 2025.
Text by Aina Torrents