Following 2021’s Notes With Attachments, the acclaimed veteran Welsh session bass player and American producer-singer-songwriter again join forces to make with an intriguingly original, eclectic, experimental collection of offbeat jazz instrumentals. Bass and fretless baritone guitar, often finding unusual instrumental tones and voicings, some like woodwind, intertwine in ghostly, mesmeric colours, joined variously by saxophonist Sam Gendel, percussionist Abe Rounds and drummer Chris Dave, there are echoes and influences on a wealth of music here including Joni Mitchell’s Hejira and Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew in this spooky, surreal and strangely beguiling release from opener Contour to the strange noodles of I Laugh In The Mouth of the Lion, the beeps and intricate spongey funk of Taka with Chris Dave, or the 15-minute main event Heat Sink, and the final, Hejira feel of closing track That Was a Dream. Overall this is an oddly beautiful piece of free-flowing, liberatingly lovely, stripped-back experiment. Out on New Deal / Impulse! Records.
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