Collage 2

pool jam (Live at The Pool)

Disenchanter

Back To This

Back in March 2023 I booked in for a double drummer recording session with good friend Sarathy Korwar and was waiting for him to arrive from the other side of the cosmos (along with his Drums and Tabla via Uber) or to be specific, from his home to the studio.

Earlier I’d had the idea to sample up this particular polyrhythmic modular synth piece that i’d fallen in love with by James Holden (now with his permission) and drum solo to it, so whilst waiting around, I
recorded myself improvising along on drums as well as vibes and various Thai percussion that I had picked up on our recent trip to perform in Bangkok.

The track came together intuitively and instinctively (but not by collectively improvising together as a band, like the other tracks on the forthcoming album “Abstract Intuition”)

I somehow knew that I wanted to create something precise, but I couldn’t quite verbalise or visualise it, perhaps because it was in way subconsciously influenced by everything I was listening to and subjectively inspired by all at once?
So, I allowed it to flow naturally and take its form under my guidance.

Another master percussionist friend, Magnus Mehta, added congas to the melting pot and I then added parts written by Ben Hadwen on flute and Twm Dylan on upright bass followed by me doubling up on synth bass.

I needed a certain simplicity from their input for this piece and I definitely remember ending up telling them both that if they got too ‘clever’ or ‘muso’ on it, I would have to start chopping off fingers one by one until they got the message. Thankfully it didn’t get to this!

To complete the collage I had the idea to invite Peter Zummo aboard for some dubby post punk trombone, the deep tone of which almost reminded me of the depth of sound achieved with a Tibetan Dungchen.
I had briefly met Peter at Cafe OTO when I was there providing DJ support for Bex Burch during her residency there.
And on the subject of Bex, it was her description of her sound as “Messy Minimalism” that partially inspired my title for the track.

it’s about CONSCIOUSNESS, unconsciousness, ego, identity, the mind… and LOVE.

This is expressed in the forthcoming video for the track.

Spontaneously created by

Twm Dylan
Ben Hadwen
Nick Woodmansey

Produced, mixed and collaged into being by Nick Woodmansey / Emanative

Elevated significantly by guest appearances / samples from
Peter Zummo, James Holden, Magnus Mehta,

Mastered by Casper Sutton - Jones At Gearbox

Artwork by Danny Gretscher

https://emanative.bandcamp.com/album/abstract-intuition

Emanative & The Abstract Intuition - Messimalism (Above Thought)

Psycho

stortion 5 105 bpm take 1 8525

https://touching-bass.bandcamp.com/album/tb-afro-chronicles-volume-one

Introducing TB Afro Chronicles: Volume One — a landmark celebration of our first year on NTS Radio. It features an A2 digital print poster (made by Mason London) + 12-track mixtape of new, original music from our community of friends.

It's an introduction to the DNA of the Touching Bass sound, finding soul in every genre and heavily influenced by the grit of our home city. From riveting instances of neo-soul by Jake Milliner on "Heard It On The News", Blue Lab Beats' silky UK jazz and out via the tribal grooves of Molinaro and experimental ambience from Kuu-50.

TRACKLISTING:
1. Melo-Zed "Babylon 1980"
2. Lex Amor "Praises"
3. Shungu "Track 321"
4. Jake Milliner "Heard It In The News (feat. Bubblerap)"
5. Eun "Crimson Times"
6. Wu-Lu "Harlem Jazz"
7. Blue Lab Beats "The Idea (feat. Nubya Garcia, Dylan Jones & Sheldon Agwu)"
8. Project Karnak "Equinox"
9. Molinaro "T's Dream"
10. Romaal Kultan "My People"
11. MA.MOYO "Prelude"
12. Kuu-50 "To Warm The Fragile"

TB Afro Chronicles: Volume One (TB001)

Des Friandises Pour Ta Bouche

Keep Moving (DJ Mehdi)

Clear Path Ensemble is the neu project and brainchild of Wellington jazz and sonic arts graduate Cory Champion. Also producing left field house and techno under the name Borrowed cs, Clear Path Ensemble is Cory’s first offering to the jazz gods. Having spent many years playing drums alongside some of New Zealand’s most talented musicians in the revered Wellington jam session scene this release is an amalgamation of the energy & spirit that the Wellington scene encompasses. Walking over the blurred lines of psychedelia and spiritual jazz and taking cues from planetary rhythms and celestial oddities, CPE invokes a higher sense of self through the transformative power of sound. In it’s truest essence these are a collection of cosmic compositions and a release that in our opinion is one of the heaviest to ever emerge from the New Zealand neo-jazz scene.

Vinyl - Digital .
https://clear-path-ensemble.lnk.to/cpe

Manufactured and Distributed by HHV Records
Artwork & Graphic Design by Jonathan Castro & Martin Groch

Clear Path Ensemble

Clear Path Ensemble - Jerry's Funk

'Akousmatikous', out now on Brainfeeder: https://srjl.lnk.to/akousSo 

Taken from the album 'Chapters of Zdenka', out now on Brainfeeder: https://srjl.lnk.to/chaptersSo

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