你以为你是自由的吗？刻入灵魂的拷问【英国室内/先锋爵士/后极简主义/自然采样】Bex Burch - There is only love and fear

合集 · Jazz/Jazz Fusion/Jazz-Funk/Avant Garde Jazz (78)

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2023年10月20日发行

Recorded for International Anthem at Center for Search & Research (Chicago), Palisade (Chicago), Chicali Outpost (Los Angeles), Bronson Canyon (Los Angeles), Stanglerhof (Italy), Jamie Linwood’s house, and various heard sounds from Yorkshire, The Baltic Sea, Berlin, SüdTirol, Wyoming, Chicago and LA.

Engineered by Dave Vettraino
*except engineered by Adrian Garcia (track 11), Ben Lumsdaine (tracks 4, 9), Dave Vettraino and Jordan Parry (track 7)

Mixed by Bex Burch and Dave Vettraino
Mastered by David Allen

Edited & Produced by Bex Burch
Executive Producers Scott McNiece, Dave Vettraino, David Allen

Artwork & Design by Jeremiah Chiu
Photos by Bex Burch (front cover) and Chris Almeida (back cover)
Obi strip design by Craig Hansen

After living in London,Berlin and Utrecht, and collaborating with the electronic sound-sculptor Leafcutter John, the electro-acoustic ensemble Flock and her post-punk trio Vula Viel,Burch’s first solo album lands her in Chicago, enlisting some Windy City jazz mavericks, including trumpeter Ben LaMar Gay,woodwind player Rob Frye and members of Tortoise.Sometimes, the results sound like an earthier Philip Glass: Dawn Blessings pairs her dreamlike, two-note gyil pattern with violinist Macie Stewart’s beautiful harmonies; Don’t Go Back to Sleep sees Burch’s gyil fractionally out of phase with a synthesiser,then spins into hypnotic but disorientating minimal techno.

Other tracks get wilder.There are drum circles,water drums and birdsong;tracks that exploit the acoustics of a California canyon. Pardieu turns a three-note xylophone riff into a compelling funk groove;Fruit Smoothie With Peanut Butter is a wonderfully chaotic drum circle that sounds melodic despite not featuring any tuned instruments. Best of all is You Thought You Were Free?,which layers clattering percussion over the wailing siren of a tornado warning relayed over Chicago until it sounds like a freakish fusion of the Master Musicians of Joujouka and Fela Kuti.