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Nights on Saturn (communication)

by أحمد [Ahmed]

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Nuclear Distortion I like free jazz but I'm not familiar with many artists in the genre and Ahmed Abdul-Malik is a refreshing discovery. This jam is wild and all over the place. What I like the most about it is the pianist is not afraid to be brutal with the piano. Most piano playing I have been exposed to potray it as a mild instrument and this release proves how powerful and aggressive piano can be. Now I am off to hunt down and explore Malik's other musical offerings.
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Giles Over churning but basically uptempo swing bass+drums, piano and alto attack with relentless energy. The obsessive exploration of the ways that short fragments can be collided reminds me (poetically) of watching the endless roiling and smashing of currents in a raging river, and (muscially) of Cecil Taylor, Coltrane's most obsessive solos, and more modern experiments like Irabagon/Barr's 'nothing but the blues'. Sublime, deep, powerful stuff.
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"The journey of self-discovery, communing with the eternal sound. A musician steeped in multiple worlds; oceans apart yet closely connected in ancestral memory. Musicians such as Ahmed Abdul-Malik were able to experience the global community of sound warriors, drawing inspiration from ancient cultures to support personal investigation. The connection was made clear, the music of Africa would certainly influence the African in America despite the atrocities of the Middle Passage, chattel slavery, and continued racist violence that sought to sever any connection to the continent. The beauty of Malik’s investigation is this original fusion of new music (Jazz) of the African in America with ancient music of Africa. It is a shining example of collaboration in culture, where the music is allowed to shine for itself. This is the inspiration that is being tapped, being explored in this collaboration where rhythm is the basis for the sound. Just like Malik, they allow the spirit of the collective push the sound as the music develops into exalted chaos. Joy Be Upon Us!"
- Luke Stewart

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released March 26, 2021

Arranged by [AHMED]

Pat Thomas - Piano
Joel Grip - Bass
Antonin Gerbal - Drums
Seymour Wright - Alto saxophone

Recorded live at Cafe OTO, London, December 5th, 2019.

Recording: Shaun Cook
Mixing: Billy Steiger
Mastering: Mikey Young

Inner-sleeve text: ' Origins Revisited' by Pat Thomas (2004)

Cover photo of Ahmed Abdul-Malik at the Cabana Club, New York City, 1965
©Raymond Ross Archives/CTSIMAGES

Produced: Astral Spirits / Seymour Wright

Thank you: Abby Thomas, Fielding Hope, Cynthia Sesso and Valerie Wilmer, Billy Steiger and Shaun Crook, Jens Lowius and John Hawthorn.

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