Jason Moran & BlankFor.ms & Marcus Gilmore - Shards (CD)

Shards is a jazz album by pianist Jason Moran, electronic musician BlankFor.ms, and drummer Marcus Gilmore, released in 2026 on Red Hook Records. Building on their prior collaboration Refract, it deepens the trio's innovative fusion of acoustic and electronic elements, where performance and transformation merge seamlessly. The music emphasizes real-time design and construction of sonic events, blending piano, drums, and tape loops with composed structures and prepared improvisations to create a dynamic, immediate energy that pushes boundaries across mediums and styles.

Recorded at The Bridge Studio in Brooklyn, Shards matures the group's chameleonic bond, allowing each musician's distinct voice—Moran's impressionistic piano, Gilmore's innovative rhythms, and BlankFor.ms's degraded tape artistry—to blend while retaining individuality. Engineered, mixed, and mastered by experts, the album captures transparent sonic properties, evoking ambient soundscapes, modernist chromaticism, and experimental loops in a balanced, uninhibited marvel that rewards repeated listening.