A Sublime Album #zot2017
James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits (Border Community, November 03, 2017)
Clearly inspired by giants like Don Cherry and Pharoah Sanders, James Holden takes another leap in quality compared to the excellent previous album ("The Inheritors," 2013) and creates a masterpiece of experimental jazz mixed with electronic music, accompanied by a collective of musicians, the Animal Spirits, consisting of Tom Page, Etienne Jaumet, Marcus Hamblett, Liza Bec, and Lascelle Gordon. Recorded in a single live session without overdubs and editing at Sacret Walls Studios in London during the summer of 2016, "The Animal Spirit" (Border Community) is an experimental work that James Holden himself has described as "folk trance" genre. Transitioning from the status of a DJ to a solitary programmer of synthetic tracks, James Holden here takes a step forward, becoming a true composer, definitively leaving behind the dance floors and any definitions such as "indie" or "techno." This album is indeed a kind of minimalist opera that looks to Middle Eastern sounds or Afro-beat that unleash in jazz fusion sessions over a kraut-rock rhythmic base or expand into infinite sequences and reverberations of sound waves. I already appreciated his compositional skills and was very impressed by the sounds of "The Inheritors," but in this album, there is so much more: James Holden's "trance-folk" electronic music, conceptually distant from that of the pioneers and great minimalist composers of the past, open to spiritual jazz influences and also a result of a cultural vision of the world around us at 360°, literally opens our doors to a new form of world music. In my opinion, this is an album that, if embraced by a number of sensitive and attentive listeners, can truly make an impact and gain followers in the years to come.
James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
#jamesholden #worldmusic #jazz
James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits (Border Community, November 03, 2017)
Clearly inspired by giants like Don Cherry and Pharoah Sanders, James Holden takes another leap in quality compared to the excellent previous album ("The Inheritors," 2013) and creates a masterpiece of experimental jazz mixed with electronic music, accompanied by a collective of musicians, the Animal Spirits, consisting of Tom Page, Etienne Jaumet, Marcus Hamblett, Liza Bec, and Lascelle Gordon. Recorded in a single live session without overdubs and editing at Sacret Walls Studios in London during the summer of 2016, "The Animal Spirit" (Border Community) is an experimental work that James Holden himself has described as "folk trance" genre. Transitioning from the status of a DJ to a solitary programmer of synthetic tracks, James Holden here takes a step forward, becoming a true composer, definitively leaving behind the dance floors and any definitions such as "indie" or "techno." This album is indeed a kind of minimalist opera that looks to Middle Eastern sounds or Afro-beat that unleash in jazz fusion sessions over a kraut-rock rhythmic base or expand into infinite sequences and reverberations of sound waves. I already appreciated his compositional skills and was very impressed by the sounds of "The Inheritors," but in this album, there is so much more: James Holden's "trance-folk" electronic music, conceptually distant from that of the pioneers and great minimalist composers of the past, open to spiritual jazz influences and also a result of a cultural vision of the world around us at 360°, literally opens our doors to a new form of world music. In my opinion, this is an album that, if embraced by a number of sensitive and attentive listeners, can truly make an impact and gain followers in the years to come.
James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
#jamesholden #worldmusic #jazz
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