Instrumentals Jid019 | Indie Exclusive, Purple Vinyl
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Following the star-studded release of Jazz Is Deads second series, the venerated label returns with an intimate offering of selected instrumentals from the Series 2 sessions with the legendary vocalist Jean Carne and keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith. Here, standout moments such as Carnes Come As You Are and Smiths Love Brings Happiness shine with a new focus on the process and craft behind them, and the intricacies of the era-accurate all-analog equipment used at Linear Labs Studio become more present. Fertile ground for putting on headphones and embarking on a hazy solo trip, the ten selections on JID019 are transporting and mesmerizing, each track reverberating reverence for the iconic Jazz-Funk sounds made famous by the likes of Carne and Smith, and represent some of the labels finest work to date. As soon as you hear the low-end rumble that opens Come As You Are, you immediately see the vision that Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad have in mind when choosing to work with vintage audio equipment and instruments. Like any great classic album, the percussion comes to life and engulfs the sound stage, animating the rest of the ensemble and propelling the inner paranoia from the saxophone and synths even further than the original. On Love Brings Happiness, a standout from Smiths entry, the oozing distortion that creeps in early on shifts into a more prominent role, leading our ears and bodies through one of Younge and Muhammads most intense and kinetic productions in the s
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Format: Vinyl LPArtist: Adrian Younge And Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Release Date: 29 September 2023
Genre: Jazz
Label: Jazz is Dead
Distributor: MGM Music
