The Harvest Time Project: A Tribute to Pharoah Sanders
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Knoxville, TN @ Knoxville Civic Auditorium - Big Ears Festival - 1:30pm

01. Harvest Time
02. ?Memories of Edith Johnson? > drums > Love Will Find A Way

The Harvest Time Project:
Laraaji - vocals
Sheila Maurice-Grey - trumpet & vocals
Austin Williamson - drums
Joshua Abrams - double bass
Tisziji Munoz - guitar
John Medeski - piano & organ

Schoeps MK4 > Baby NBox > Zoom H6 essential 
Recorded by Funk It Blog (from 2nd row center)
with patches from Joel Berk's Zoom H1n source (first 4 minutes, plus 16 patches)

Notes: My Big Ears 2024 recordings did not come out as I had hoped, due to a triple threat of technical snafu's. Long story short, don't try out new cables/setups/adaptors without a test run. I switched from the CMC1KV bodies to active cables at the last minute without a test run. I wanted to run 32bit float so I wouldn't have to worry about levels and could be more present, but I forgot to tell the cable maker that I needed XLR in instead of 1/8, so I bought some cheap adaptors that left me with left channel drop outs. I also went line in instead of mic in, so my levels were extremely low and I didn't realize it until I got home. Anyway, this recording still sounds pretty good even though it had to be amplified, turned into "fake stereo / dual mono" and about 16 short skips had to be patched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9zCIENl9q0

The Harvest Time Project: A Tribute to Pharoah Sanders 3/24/24 Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, TN

Taken from the album 'Water Music'. Limited deep yellow vinyl LP (300 copies only) out August 30th 2024

artist: IVAN THE TOLERABLE QUINTET
title: Water Music
catalogue # REPOSELP141
format: Vinyl LP (Deep Yellow)
barcode: 5051142068866
release date: August 30th 2024

Stars align and Oli Heffernan brings his ever-(d)evolving Ivan The Tolerable to Riot Season for two LPs of sublime entropic drift. 

Having this time recruited Christian Alderson (The Unit Ama) on drums, John Pope (Ponyland) on double bass, Kevin Nickles (Ecstatic Vision) on flute and saxophone and Ben Hopkinson on electric paino - both works were recorded as a quintet almost instantaneously, the players barely brushing or breathing a note before the whole thing was done. 

The first LP, Vertigo, is all claustrophobic, dense and disorientating - like Sun Ra sitting in with Exploding Star Orchestra

Whereas the second LP, Water Music, is the music of lapping waves, becalmed, creaking hulls, circling birds and gentle winds. - Equal parts Laraaji and Natural Information Society

Bob Fischer (Electronic Sound Magazine) on ‘Water Music’

"A summer's afternoon daydream of an album. Beautifully soothing psychedelic jazz overflowing with raga delights...immerse yourself in its charms"

Water Music

Floating Palm

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IVAN THE TOLERABLE QUINTET 'Floating Palm' (2024)

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