Name: Random Wishes & Abstract Dreams Xs by JoY aNd EaRs
Duration: 2 min 49 s
Description: Here is a short mash-up/taster of 'Random Wishes and Abstract Dreams'. We'll be recording it alongside some new material very soon!...

WE'LL BE BACK!... Watch this space... 2015 here we go!...

Here is a short mash-up/taster of 'Random Wishes and Abstract Dreams'. We'll be recording it alongside some new material very soon!... 

Random Wishes & Abstract Dreams Xs

An audio-scrub preview of EARDRUM's new album "Colonised" to be released MAY 2015 on DISTRICT SIX RECORDS.

THIS IS THE 4TH STUDIO ALBUM FROM EARDRUM, THE UK BASED COLLECTIVE OF PROLIFIC AND INFLUENTIAL WORLD/JAZZ/EXPERIMENTAL MUSICIANS.

(MEMBERS HAVE/ARE ALSO PLAYING WITH: MULATU ASTATKE, TONY ALLEN, ASWAD,SKA CUBANO, JAZZ WARRIORS,JAZZ JAMAICA,HUGH MASEKELA, BLACK TOP, SIKIRU AYINDE BARRISTER, YAABA FUNK, VENUS BUSHFIRES, ETC)

MOSTLY RECORDED AS A LIVE BAND ONE-TAKE SESSION, REMINISCENT OF THEIR FIERY LIVE SHOWS, THIS ALBUM HAS ALSO BEEN RIGOUROUSLY MIXED AND DUBBED OUT IN THE SAME SPIRIT AS THE FRONT OF HOUSE ENGINEER; IMPULSIVELY REACTING WITH THE BAND ONSTAGE.

THE MUSIC HAS ALL THE ELEMENTS OF AN EDGY AND OFTEN DISTURBING MEETING OF MANY WORLDS; WEST AFRICAN, NORTH INDIAN, ELECTRONICA, FREE JAZZ - AND YET STILL ITRETAINS THE MONSTER ORGANIC DANCE GROOVES FOR WHICH THE BAND IS ALREADY KNOWN AND LOVED.

FEATURING VOCALS FROM NIGERIA, ERITREA AND EGYPT, THE ALBUM FLICKS FROM MOSTLY INSTRUMENTALS TO A FEW VOCAL-LED TRACKS, WITHOUT LOSING ANY FOCUS, FEATURING TIGHT HORN ARRANGEMENTS AND HEAVY DRUM BREAKS, THAT SEAMLESSLY SPLAY OUT INTO DEEP INTERSTELLA IMPROVISATION.
 
AS WITH PREVIOUS EARDRUM MATERIAL, “COLONISED”  HYPNOTISES, EVOKES AND STIRS UP IN THE MIND OF THE  LISTENER AND THE DANCER ALIKE 


PERSONNEL

RICHARD OLATUNDE BAKER (UK/Nigeria) talking drum/percussion/fx
LOU CICCOTELLI (USA) - drumkit
HARVIR SAHOTA SINGH (India) - tabla/percussion
RASAQ AYANDELE (Nigeria)  - omele bata  
PAT THOMAS (UK/Caribbean)  - keyboard/electronics
JASON YARDE (Caribbean)  - tenor sax
NICK WALTERS (UK) - trumpet
TREVOR EDWARDS (Caribbean)  - trombone
AGE NORTHOVER (UK)  - alto sax
AYO ODIA (Nigeria) - alto sax
TREVOR ANTONIO (Gambia/Caribbean)  - udu on “Yellow Skies”

FEATURED VOCALS
HELEN ISIBOR (Nigeria)  - on “Magic Train”
SABA TEWELDE (Eritrea) - on “Bikoboro”
EMPRESS *1 (Egypt)  - on “Iya el Donia”

CONTACT:
richard@richardolatundebaker.com





EARDRUM "COLONISED" WHOLE ALBUM AUDIO-SCRUB

The multitalented drummer from Polar Bear made an incredible mixtape with some Polar Bear unreleased tracks and other music coming from the most remote corners of the world.

Hope you enjoy it

Seb Rochford - Polar Bear - Exclusive Mix

50. La dénégation des types, tant individuels que collectifs, est une conséquence de l’impératif antiraciste qu’il nous est devenu nécessaire d’assumer. Pauvre nécessité, pourtant, qui nous oblige à effacer ces airs de famille, ces ressemblances vagues mais insistantes, ces mélanges touchants ou amusants des effets de la génétique, de la mode, des divisions sociales, des âges, et au milieu desquels émerge avec plus de relief l’incomparable de chacun(e).
From 58 INDICES SUR LE CORPS et EXTENSION DE L’ÂME. Éditions Nota bene, Québec, 2004.

50. The denial of types, individual as well as collective, is a result of the antiracist imperative we've had to adopt. A poor necessity, however, since it obliges us to efface family likenesses, those vague but insistent similarities, touching or amusing blends of the effects of genetics, fashion, social divisions, ages, from the midst of which there emerges, and with greater distinctness, what is incomparable in each person.
From Fifty-eight Indices on the Body (Corpus), Jean-Luc Nancy. New York, Fordham University Press, 2008.

50. Il disconoscimento dei tipi, tanto individuali che collettivi, è una conseguenza dell'imperativo antirazzista che ci è diventato necessario assumere. Necessità povera, tuttavia, che ci obbliga a cancellare quelle arie di famiglia, quelle somiglianze vaghe ma insistenti, quei miscugli commoventi o divertenti degli effetti della genetica, della moda, delle divisioni sociali, delle età in cui emerge con più rilievo il carattere ineguagliabile di ciascuno(a).
From Jean-Luc Nancy, Indizi sul corpo. Ananke Edizioni, Torino, 2009


Jean-Luc Nancy Recording Index 50

My new band 'Triumvirate' featuresa mighty partnership of Larry Bartley (Bass) and Moses Boyd (Drums) and we did our first gig a while a go @ Mau Mau bar. This is our version of Gnarls Barkelys's Crazy! 
If you want to hear some more of our 1st gig let me know. In the meantime this is the opener. Peace 

Triumviate - Crazy

Richard Olatunde's Remix of Yaabafunk's "Nyash, e go byte U"

NYASH-Olatunde Remixof YaabaFunk's "Nyash E go byte You"

AFRO HARP2

Excerpt from forthcoming LP by Yaaba Funk. Mixed and mastered by Daz I Kue (Bgz in the Attic). Guitars by Christian Arcucci. Drums by Lou Ciccotelli.

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