Makaya McCraven – In The Moment (Vinyl)
One venue, 28 shows and 48 hours of live, improvised music. These are the ingredients for Chicago-based drummer Makaya McCraven's album In the Moment. However, McCraven, as the producer he also is, has not just thrown some random sounds together. Instead, he has carefully culled, cut and remixed the music into a coherent whole and 19 complex and catchy compositions emerge from his hands.
The meeting between completely fresh improvisations from some of Chicago's finest musicians and the shrewd sense of structure from McCraven makes the album successful. It simply has the best of both worlds. The production is not too sterile or cerebral, but has the spark and intimacy of live improvisation and the improvisations benefit from the editing and become tuneful and bodily grooves without meandering.
The presence of guitarist Jeff Parker on several tracks is an added bonus. He sculpts sounds from his instrument and plays melodic licks and the Chicago-sound, a mixture of post-rock and jazz from bands like Tortoise and Isotope 217, also finds a way into the music. However, the spirit of this record is definitely jazz. It is music in the moment that deserves to be preserved.
Think of Miles Davis and the work of Teo Macero on albums like In a Silent Way. However, this is speculation. The fact is that McCraven has made a record that points to the future of jazz with an organic inclusion of many genres that all melt together in a unified and engaging expression.
2 x Vinyl, Repress
Tracklist:
A1 Exploration Intro
A2 The Jaunt
A3 Slightest Right
A4 First Thing First
B1 Lonely
B2 Gnawa
B3 On The Spot
B4 Butterscotch
B5 TomTom
B6 Three Fifths A Man
C1 In The Moment
C2 Quartz
C3 Just Stay Right There
C4 Untitled
C5 Requests
D1 Time Travel
D2 The Encore
D3 The Drop
D4 Finances
One venue, 28 shows and 48 hours of live, improvised music. These are the ingredients for Chicago-based drummer Makaya McCraven's album In the Moment. However, McCraven, as the producer he also is, has not just thrown some random sounds together. Instead, he has carefully culled, cut and remixed the music into a coherent whole and 19 complex and catchy compositions emerge from his hands.
The meeting between completely fresh improvisations from some of Chicago's finest musicians and the shrewd sense of structure from McCraven makes the album successful. It simply has the best of both worlds. The production is not too sterile or cerebral, but has the spark and intimacy of live improvisation and the improvisations benefit from the editing and become tuneful and bodily grooves without meandering.
The presence of guitarist Jeff Parker on several tracks is an added bonus. He sculpts sounds from his instrument and plays melodic licks and the Chicago-sound, a mixture of post-rock and jazz from bands like Tortoise and Isotope 217, also finds a way into the music. However, the spirit of this record is definitely jazz. It is music in the moment that deserves to be preserved.
Think of Miles Davis and the work of Teo Macero on albums like In a Silent Way. However, this is speculation. The fact is that McCraven has made a record that points to the future of jazz with an organic inclusion of many genres that all melt together in a unified and engaging expression.
2 x Vinyl, Repress
Tracklist:
A1 Exploration Intro
A2 The Jaunt
A3 Slightest Right
A4 First Thing First
B1 Lonely
B2 Gnawa
B3 On The Spot
B4 Butterscotch
B5 TomTom
B6 Three Fifths A Man
C1 In The Moment
C2 Quartz
C3 Just Stay Right There
C4 Untitled
C5 Requests
D1 Time Travel
D2 The Encore
D3 The Drop
D4 Finances
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