A Willed And Conscious Balance
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A Willed and Conscious Balance is the first album of material arranged for an ensemble by multi-instrumentalist composer Tomin Perea-Chamblee. The bulk of the album was recorded in one day at The Bunker in Brooklyn, NY by IARC house engineers Dave Vettraino and David Allen, and features a truly incredible lineup that includes members of Irreversible Entanglements and jaimie branchs FLY or DIE. Tomins work with this group of veteran musicians is singular though, instantly setting this material apart from the discographies of its contributors. Imagine the density of a J.J. Johnson arrangement rhythmically stretched and pulled la Thembi-era Pharoah Sanders, or the Dolphy-infused bop squawk elegance of Booker Little's Out Front sent through the sonic washing machine of Bernie Maupin's The Jewel in the Lotus. With each listen, the potential for comparisons feels both endless and unsatisfying, and while there were certainly hints of this direction on Tomins collection of solo recordings from 2024, Flores para Verene / Cantos para Caramina simple & entrancing chord progressions, favoring the dirge, favoring the repetitive the sounds heard on A Willed and Conscious Balance take the listener somewhere new. Somewhere fresh yet familiar. A group exploration of simplicity that yields something complicated, just like life itself.
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Catalogue Number: IARC0088LPFormat: Vinyl LP
Artist: Tomin
Release Date: 01 November 2024
Genre: Jazz
Label: International Anthem
Distributor: MGM Music
