808713003116

This Brings Us To, Volumes I & II

Henry Threadgill

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Format: 2LP

Cat No: PIV31

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Release Date:  19 April 2024

Label:  PI Recordings

Packaging Type:  Gate Fold Vinyl

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  808713003116

Genres:  Jazz  

  • Description

    To celebrate saxophonist/flutist Henry Threadgill's career retrospective at the 2024 Big Ears Festival, Pi Recordings is proud to release both Volumes I & II of This Brings Us To together in a limited-edition double vinyl set. Featuring his long-running band, Zooid, the two volumes were originally released in 2009 and 2010 even though the music was all recorded at a single session. They were his first releases in eight years, longer than any hiatus in his career, a time that allowed for the gestation of what was to become Threadgill's signature intervallic system of composition and group improvisation that ultimately won him a Pulitzer Prize for his work In for a Penny, In for a Pound. The original albums were voted the #2 and #5 best releases of the year by The Village Voice Jazz Critics' Poll, about which NPR said "The jazz world is coming to realise that Threadgill is a true idiosyncratic great.... This Brings Us To staggers and lurches and creates dissonances, and it still brings the mad-scientist funk."

    Remastered for vinyl by Threadgill's long-time guitarist and producer Liberty Ellman and housed in a gatefold sleeve with archival photos of the band, the release focuses attention on an important turning point in the career of one of music's great iconoclastic masters.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. White Wednesday Off The Wall
      • 2. To Undertake My Corners Open
      • 3. Chairmaster

      Side 2

      • 1. After Some Time
      • 2. Sap
      • 3. Mirror Mirror The Verb

      Disc 2

      Side 1

      • 1. Lying Eyes
      • 2. This Brings Us To
      • 3. Extremely Sweet William

      Side 2

      • 1. Polymorph
      • 2. It Never Moved