Release Date: 20 November 2020
Label: Telephone Explosion Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 844667051049
Genres: Jazz  
Release Date: 20 November 2020
Label: Telephone Explosion Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 844667051049
Genres: Jazz  
Description
Toronto's Badge Epoque Ensemble announce sophomore album Self Help out November 20th on Telephone Explosion Records - Recorded live in the months before lockdown, Self Help is an exploratory record that dances across time and genre, guided by fidgety miniatures and jazz inflected collage.
While constructed from the inspiration of soul, funk and film music, BEE mediate those influences having first digested them through the productions of Madlib & the RZA. Throughout, the band pool together their instrumental chops, moving from fluid and serpentine R&B to meditative, minimalistic piano, evoking a contrast of virtuosity and self-surrender. The album produces, in equal measure, familiar surprises and the surprisingly familiar. Intoxicated jazz riffs swerve left at phantom intersections. Rhythms cut loose and tie you in knots. But wired in to each song is a sense of gentle accumulation, making every featherlight flourish weigh a ton.
Tracklisting
Bruce Haack
Badge Epoque Ensemble
Andre Ethier
Mas Aya
Jarius Sharif
Blunt Chunks
Tony Price
Jahmal Padmore
Badge Epoque Ensemble
Badge Epoque Ensemble