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RAVINE - Explorations into various human states of consciousness
The Incognito Traveller presents a profound exploration into the deepest crevices of the human subconscious on Ravine. Each song writhes and meanders into the listener in different ways and the album as a whole becomes an intense voyage, its paths converging where all inaccessible memories lie.
Ravine is a work conceptually founded on Milton Erickson’s “A Special Inquiry with Aldous Huxley into the Nature and Character of Various States of Consciousness” where author Aldous Huxley is guided into a deep hypnosis. In such state, he describes meeting with his own self at different ages and revisiting his own stages of growth and intellectual development. The Incognito Traveller translates into music the descent deep within, way beyond memories, into the purest definition of self.
The resulting work is characterized by a peculiar curiosity-provoking obscurity, permeated with glimmering instants of clarity. The production is designed to create, maintain, and heighten, a sense of incomplete understanding by bringing together aperture and space in the song structures with a balanced layering of melody, rhythm and field recordings. This altogether avoids the external claustrophobic feeling of a dark room by rather amplifying the striking openness that exists within the mind and therefore inviting the listener to explore those broad inner spaces.
Ravine works as a specific sequence of tracks that come together to form a full discourse, rather than being a collection of parts. There is a natural flow in the succession of songs that recalls the process of drowning into a hypnotic state; all song titles reference specific moments of Erickson and Huxley’s experience and guide the listener through this profound inner voyage.
A very conceptually specific album, Ravine broadens The Incognito Traveller’s view of the world by turning inwards to understand humanity from within and offer freedom for the mind.

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Founded in 1996 by Peter Adarkwah, Barely Breaking Even (BBE Music) started life as a London club night, taking its name from the eponymous Disco record by the Universal Robot Band.

The label grew from the vibrant early 90's club scene with its first release, Stop & Listen compiled by Dr Bob Jones in 1996, opening the door to iconic series' such as All Back To Mine & Late Nite Tales.

A tonne of releases followed, ranging from Disco to Funk, Jazz to House. In the year 2000, the label celebrated Masters at Work's 10th Anniversary with a mighty box set that featured near 80 tracks.

A year later BBE Music spawned the Beat Generation Series of artist albums, notably introducing J Dilla (Welcome 2 Detroit) & a young Will.I.Am's first solo outing, alongside DJ Jazzy Jeff, Madlib & DJ Spinna, all of whom contributed to this seminal set of long players.

A quarter of a century and well over 500 titles later, having worked with Mark Ronson, Roy Ayers, Questlove, Hugh Masekela, DJ Premier, Dimitri from Paris, Joey Negro, Kon, RZA, Laurent Garnier, Black Coffee, DJ Shadow, David Rodigan and John Morales among many others, BBE Music looks to the future, celebrating its rich heritage while continuing to release a bounty of fresh titles.

The label’s most recent projects include an expansive reissue series from pioneering Nigerian label Tabansi, new imprint ‘Batakari’ in association with Boddhi Satva and the critically acclaimed ‘J Jazz’ Japanese Jazz multi-album project, not to mention the recent landmark 500th label release: a brand new version of 'Barely Breaking Even', featuring Leroy Burgess, Patrick Adams and Louie Vega.

In 2021 BBE Music is celebrating its 25th anniversary. To mark this milestone, the label is offering up some special projects, from the 20th Anniversary edition of J Dilla’s ‘Welcome 2 Detroit’, through David Bowie tribute album ‘Modern Love’, to a special new ‘Worldwide’ compilation from old friend Gilles Peterson. BBE Music will also be looking to the future with more exciting original artist projects, plus merch collaborations events and more...