Future modal jazz dub, heard thru a Y2K lens by legendary blowers Pharaoh Sanders & Graham Haynes, and diffused in Bill Laswell’s illbient dub style & pattern. A slept-on, cross-generational ace sure to pique interest FFO Jon Hassell to Talvin Singh, Lászlo Hortobágyi to Material.
Cooked up in NYC’s jazz crucible in 2003 as a duo of Sanders & Haynes – now re-mantled as a Sanders x Laswell session for its first vinyl cut – With a Heartbeat speaks to the rich confluence of deeply rooted, forward-thinking jazz with ambient dub that tilted from the late C.20th into this century. Centred on the human heartbeat, it unfurls at a rested systolic throb in two landscaped-scale works which bookend deeper dives into Indian raga and tabla actions, the latter of which…
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Described as a “musical poem”, Mount Analogue is a lengthy meditation on the works of avant-garde poet and writer René Daumal that’s passed from Bill Laswell and P.St (plus an ensemble featuring Nils Petter Movaer, Anna Clementi, Hideo Yamaki and others) to guitarist Henry Kaiser.
Mount Analogue is named after Daumel’s most well-known book, the self-styled “Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing” that emerged almost a decade after his early death at just 36 in 1944. That text is excerpted here on the album-length title composition, that Czech experimental sort P.St leads on electronics alongside Laswell, Kaiser, vocalists Clementi and Percy Howard, percussionist Yamaki, cornet player…
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