Cat No:
EAR042
Release Date: 13 May 2022
Label: Earshift Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 9324690176519
Genres: Jazz Psychedelic Rock
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Description
If I Hold The Lion's Paw's first album 'Abstract Playgrounds' was the sound of a close-knit group of improvisors riffing on the twisted funk of Miles Davis's On the Corner, as filtered through the lens of James Brown and Fela Kuti, then this second, 'Lost in Place', is closer to Jon Hassell meets Ornette Coleman, meets Sun Ra.
Instead of a continuation of the groove, this new album has taken a decidedly left turn, journeyed to a far darker place. Whereas previously, we heard the sustained groove of a creative unit playing live in the studio, this time round we find ourselves confronted by a portrait of the composer as alchemist, practising the dark arts in secret. If we were to invoke Miles once more, we could say that this is trumpeter and IHTLP leader Reuben Lewis's Dark Magus phase, an album of stripped-down trumpet utterances, electronic soundscapes, and weird vibrations.
There is a starkness to this music, exemplified in the three and a half-minute opening track, comprised of a trumpet fanfare, modulated and distorted, played over electronic beats and synths. As the album progresses, we get subtle hints of Reggae, the harmolodics of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time, trance, nods to prog rock, gentle refrains and riffs, free jazz, rhythmic percussion, scraps of guitar, saxophone, trombone. It's a mash-up of influences...
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Tracklisting
- 2. Place in Space
- 3. Losing Place
- 4. Rest in Place
- 5. Space in Place
- 6. Losing Place
- 7. Place for Space
- 8. In Your Place
- 9. Fixed in Space
- 10. Queensland
- 11. Lost in Place
- 1. Finding Place
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