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Release Date: 21 October 2024
Label: Telephone Explosion Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 844667053463
Genres: Jazz Avant-garde
Description
The passionate and unclassifiable work of Calgary-based improviser Jairus Sharif embraces each of these definitions of freedom and others, albeit strictly on its own personal and idiosyncratic terms. Since early 2020, the 34-year-old autodidact has been generating a steady stream of homespun solo recordings that forge unprecedented connections between hip-hop abstraction, cosmic skronk, outsider jazz, and staunch post-punk DIY ethos.
Water & Tools is a dense, contradictory statement with a blustery surface that shelters a soulful heart. It's generous music, exuding profound vulnerability--grappling with the loss of one his mothers, Lisa--all the while brimming with electric wide-eyed wonder. Almost every one of the nine pieces seems to carry some semblance of a groove, while remaining completely untethered from pulse. At points, there's a timelessness that's conveyed through the music's processional, ritualistic tenor, and yet there's an endless amount of wild, futuristic detail waiting to unspool at any given moment.
Tracklisting
Mas Aya
Jarius Sharif
Blunt Chunks
Tony Price
Jahmal Padmore
Dorothea Paas
Teenanger
Bob Bell
Jordina Milla & Barry Guy
Jarius Sharif
Louis Moholo-Moholo
Matthew Bourne
Various Artists
The Residents
The Residents
Sun Ra
