Jlin has announced a new album called Akoma. Due out March 22 via Planet Mu, the 11-track LP will include guest appearances from Björk, Kronos Quartet, and Philip Glass, the latter of whom features on ...
Jlin exploded onto the scene with 2015's Dark Energy, an album of bold and unclassifiable productions. Her sound was initially linked with Chicago footwork, though Jlin would lean away from signifiers ...
If you’re ever feeling bored with new music, like you’ve heard it all before, don’t give up – just hit play on a Jlin track. The 30-year-old Gary, Indiana, electronic musician is evolving faster than ...
In the process of writing introductory profiles over the last five or six years for artists coming to both the Big Ears Festival and Oak Ridge’s Summer Sessions outdoor Americana concerts, I’ve had a ...
Jlin’s second album Black Origami at times feels like an hermetic universe built on complex martial rhythms, with an intense inward focus that seems to seal it off from the world of electronic music ...
Last year, Jlin teamed up with choreographer Wayne McGregor to piece together a show called Autobiography, premiered at the Sadler’s Wells theatre in London. Autobiography Edits took place in Toronto ...
Gary, Indiana’s own Jlin (Jerrilynn Patton) electrifies The Nimoy for a set that showcases why she has quickly become one of the most distinctive composers in America and one of the most influential ...
Jerilynn Patton makes music as Jlin, in Gary, Indiana. A former steel mill worker, she has roots in footwork, the light-speed dance music from Chicago. Two of footwork’s stalwarts, DJ Rashad and RP ...
Producer Jlin, who plays Kremwerk on Thursday (March 24), told Rolling Stone magazine she thinks art should be “disturbing.” That makes sense, since she works in a subgenre called “footwork” that’s ...
Jerrilynn Patton grew up in Gary, Ind., and after studying engineering and math, she landed a pretty good job at U.S. Steel. "Put it like this: my life was stable," she says. It wasn't until she ...
The Pulitzer-nominated experimental producer finesses acoustic samples from the Third Coast Percussion ensemble into dazzling rhythmic workouts. Despite the diversity of these collaborations, and ...
Jlin’s second album Black Origami at times feels like an hermetic universe built on complex martial rhythms, with an intense inward focus that seems to seal it off from the world of electronic music ...