jamesholdensomething very beautiful about shabaka's 'quitting' sax - like there's a lot of love for the music and culture embedded in that decision to stop. his explanation is here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CuNiaeFKiUZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
a little bit Hesse's glass bead game too?
ira@jamesholden now playing chess without the dice?
@jamesholden shabaka’s “african culture” is a very mellow album of mysterious, discursive spiralings & loopings, weird fates fêted, veils lifted & let fall again.
@iraantlers oh I think I don't have that one, will check it when I get home, thanks!
@iraantlers this is fantastic! new favourite shabaka record, no idea how i missed it at the time. thanks!
my favourite track 'ital is vital' somehow really reminds me of something off waclaw zimpel's recent 'train spotter' lp? something in the riff or the tone or the scale or the soft hint of sadness in it
@jamesholden oh hey, that’s wonderful. yes, it seems quite sublime… the sadness is wispy yet embodied, immense but without scale…? maybe y’all can collaborate someday :) will check out the simpel album.
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maleem mahmoud guinea made a record with pharoah sanders who made a record with floating points who made a record with james holden and maleem mahmoud guinea who made a record with pharoah sanders & london symphony orchestra who made a record with floating points who will be performing these songs with pharoah sanders’ parts performed by shabaka hutchings
Lrusse / Behling@jamesholden ah crud, I never did manage to see Comet live 😩