Black Moon Biography

Alexander Ashbel fortunately, the new selection turned out to be the already motley and interesting. What unites these five new products? In addition to obvious interpenetration, let it be the love and devotion with which the artists approach the composition of their music. Where are we without this? .. From an early age, a guy from the suburbs of Atlanta was surrounded by different music: Soul Motauna, hip-hop of the east coast, rock alternative and, of course, he, however, while the artist’s work is the least.

Thanks to this horizons, Bershan composes songs from the very beginning without looking at the boundaries of styles, saying: "I want to make music that you like, and not which they expect from me." After the release of the nameless mini-album in the year, the listeners drew attention to the lyrical thing “Janet”, and after some time another track fell on the sound path of the series of Donald Glover “Atlanta”.

Despite this, Bershan was in no hurry to release a full -fledged album, but preferred to do everything thoroughly and efficiently. This music is soft, but not background, and with careful listening in it you can find a lot of interesting things. The last commercial success of the group happened already in the year, with the release of the third album “War Zone”, but, as you probably guess, life outside the Billboard hit parade does not end.

16 years after the release of the last studio work, the trio is back in the case and in the previous composition: Bakshot, Fayve Fit and DJ Ivili Dee. Reference return. For a long time he was in the shade and even on his first solo plate gives way to the microphone vocalist Sandra Nkaka, limiting themselves to insinuating passages on the instrument and a terrible whisper.

As usual in such cases, in a quiet whirlpool there is a lot of things. The Western record is a real puzzle composed of American spiritual jazz x, soul, psychedelia, insinuating New Jazz in the spirit of The Cinematic Orchestra, experimental pop music and other beauties. As a result, a certain smoky sound canvas is created, which is simultaneously very vulnerable and elusive - in places it practically seeps through the fingers.

Very piece and theatrical music in a good way. The level of the group is indicated by the fact that all three of its albums were published on one of the leading independent labels in Europe - the Italian Record Kicks. Hannah and The Affirmats filled the three-year pause before the release of the “50 Foot Woman” disk: after working well on the material, they invited the producer of Shan Lee to the chair of our time, which laid out his hand, it seems, to every worthy pass on the Nizhny Novgorod SUL Surfers.

Kneebody's music “Chapters” Edition in the world of modern creative jazz is considered a good tone to refuse to use the term “jazz” itself. The point is not in the taste, but how widely the creative methods of this music spread and how much it itself was omnivorous. If so-in front of you is one of the best non-jazz groups not only of America, but also beyond its borders.

KneBody is a striking example of such an attitude to a jazz idiom: a few years before Snarky Puppy, they introduced the fashion for ordered improvisations in a multi -faced matrix. In this music there are influences and echoes of Soul, rhythm-n-blouse, electronics, rock, academic minimalism, avant-garde and many other “languages”. With the album “Chapters” Kneebody enters a new stage in their biography-with a new label, with a new composition and even more relaxedly launched and at the same time insanely inventive approach to creativity.

This is an excellent answer to the question of what is happening in jazz now, and at the same time an effective antidote from a biased attitude to this music. Music tags.