Cat No:
PI102
Release Date: 26 July 2024
Label: PI Recordings
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 808713010220
Genres: Jazz Avant-garde
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Description
Bassist Kim Cassis is among a vanguard group of Brooklyn-based improvisors who are creating works at the leading-edge of rhythmic acuity.Levs, his debut with Pi Recordings, features pianist Matt Mitchell and drummer Tyshawn Sorey, who called Cass "a singular composer and player: the man can do things that doesn't seem possible on the bass, displaying a technical command of the instrument on the level of the most celebrated virtuosic performers in any genre of music."
The compositions onLevsare deeply idiosyncratic, built on stilts of complex, polyrhythmic structures over a sea of harmonic murkiness. Cass plays with a precision - often combining with the piano as a unified voice - that seems beyond the instrument's technical limitations. Sorey's structured improvisations on the drums alternately reinforces and disrupts. It might project a facade of free improvisation, but exists as the direct result of intense, energetic coordination. Levsis volatile yet dreamlike, and imbued with a sense of ominous mystery.
Kim Cass: bass, sampling
Matt Mitchell: piano and prophet-6
Tyshawn Sorey: drums
Laura Cocks: flutes (all tracks except 1, 5, 11)
Adam Dotson: euphonium (all tracks except 1, 5, 9, 11) -
Tracklisting
- 1. Slag
- 2. Fog Face
- 3. Gs
- 4. Levs
- 5. Time
- 6. Ripley
- 7. Rumple
- 8. Jungle
- 9. Body
- 10. Tentacle
- 11. Sea Vine
- 12. Minor
- 13. Trench
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PolyTropos / Of Many Turns
Steve Coleman
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The Susceptible Now
Tyshawn Sorey
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Zealous Angles
Matt Mitchell
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Levs
Kim Cass
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Unknown Rivers
Luke Stewart
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This Brings Us To, Volumes I & II
Henry Threadgill
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Find Letter X
Kate Gentile
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Ex Machina
Steve Lehman & Orchestre National de Jazz
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A Bigger MOUTH
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Barry Guy
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Ou Phrontis
John Zorn
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Argento
A.M.E.N
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Savina Yannatou, Floros Floridis, Barry Guy & Ramon Lopez
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Weird Of Mouth
Weird Of Mouth
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Duos
Paul Dunmall & Kevin Figes
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Happy Apples
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