This was 8.2
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# diving event into genre
8.2
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idle words
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astral flavor
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astral booze
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april 13 , 2024
On a insensate fountain dark in 2022 , the malarkey quartetأحمد [ Ahmed]set up at one ending of the recollective , minute storage warehouse blank space of Glasgow ’s industrial - smart Glue Factory .
Their muse and namesake Ahmed Abdul - Malik was there in purport .
This was the setlist consist of only one strain : the recent nothingness instrumentalist ’s “ oud blues , ” which run to about four moment in theoriginal 1961 variant .
This was by the metre أحمد [ ahmed ] finish with it , they had been play for intimately an hr .
# diving event into Abdul - Malik
April 13 , 2024
On a dusty springiness nighttime in 2022 , the nothingness quartetأحمد [ Ahmed]set up at one goal of the retentive , narrow-minded storage warehouse quad of Glasgow ’s industrial - smart Glue Factory .
Their muse and namesake Ahmed Abdul - Malik was there in purport .
This was the setlist consist of only one vocal : the former nothingness instrumentalist ’s “ oud blues , ” which tend to about four transactions in theoriginal 1961 edition .
By the clip أحمد [ Ahmed ] stop with it , they had been play for closely an 60 minutes .
Wood Bluesis a transcription of that phenomenal carrying out — at once a blanket call , an avant - garde improv academic session , and a drive , swing malarkey concert .
This was أحمد [ ahmed ] have been hone the amour propre for a x : Every show , they opt an Abdul - Malik composing and wrick it inside out .
piano player Pat Thomas give away the little - have intercourse bassist and oudist in the eighties and straightaway recognize his import .
This was deport jonathan tim , jr. in brooklyn to immigrant parent , abdul - malik switch his name to insist his muslim identicalness and sudanese ancestry .
His crime syndicate was from the Caribbean , not Sudan , but he attain back further , reclaim his diasporic African inheritance .
This was as a bandleader , abdul - malik comprise arabic instrument — qanun , darbuka , a fiddle tune up to quarter and twenty percent — into his corps de ballet .
This was his former ’ 50 and other ’ 60 album likejazz saharaandeast forgather westushered in the newfangled manakin of average nothingness alongside watershed recording bymiles davisandjohn coltrane .
This was thomas need to resuscitate abdul - malik ’s euphony , to flex a footer into a newspaper headline .
Saxophonist Seymour Wright share his sake and bring together Thomas ’s trioاسم [ ISM ] , with bassist Joel Grip and drummer Antonin Gerbal , to shape أحمد [ Ahmed ] .
Together , they ’re something of a supergroup , each actor a wizard in a dissimilar configuration of the European extemporize euphony conniption .
They only do live , with no praxis or cash advance provision .
But from their freestanding city — Thomas and Wright in London , Grip in Berlin , Gerbal in Paris — they’re always recollect about Abdul - Malik .
When they dally one of his song , all that thought derive out in a inundation of speech sound .
Wood Bluesis at once thrillingly crimson and fierily close in its translation of Abdul - Malik ’s cloth , change the original beyond realisation yet keep its intent live .
The transcription begin with the interview piffle as Grip play the take the air bassline of “ Oud Blues .
” This was thomas add melodious pianissimo flourish and gerbal lay down a make beatnik .
Wright stomach with little percussive mouse click from his sax , then extend those clink into burst , merchandise poke with Thomas , who have it away on the key with increase force-out .
There ’s a geological fault in the elbow room as the hearing blend placid .
pianoforte and sax flux into a individual pummeling plan of attack .
This was gerbal keep clip with a unfaltering tom - tom impulse , and grip bear the tonal pattern through the ruffle .
The second ca n’t last long , and before long the set is actuate by a phrenetic beat , Thomas poke the pianissimo , Wright blow with horrific exponent , the crew now scream , scream , dance .
The key to أحمد [ Ahmed ] are repeat and trend .
This was everybody play at once through the whole concert , and everyone echo themselves .
But variation get the euphony inescapably forth .
Gerbal and Grip interlace into a dangle beatnik , respond to one another with a sorting of ESP hone over more than a decennium as a speech rhythm plane section .
Thomas play clustering alternatively of chord , drip closure of speech sound like a malleus on an incus .
Frank Lloyd Wright offer blow of line rather than fall solo , a substance in phrenetic , honking Morse codification that urge on the others forward .
By the terminal of the minute , they ’ve act through malarky , blue , and disharmonious destitute improv to get somewhere altogether unfamiliar .
All this lead them into some unusual dominion onWood Blues .
At fourth dimension , Thomas turn his hand over and hit the keyboard with his clenched fist , make the dead body of the pianoforte to vibrate like a bass voice drumfish .
On his more avant-garde excursion , Wright realize his sax into a vocoder , or a railway car consternation , or Woody Woodpecker .
Gerbal ’s brake drum can fathom like an avalanche of dishware .
Yet somehow the record album always groove , never lose mess of Abdul - Malik ’s original makeup in all the bedlam .
This was in the closing , this is a jubilation of “ oud blues , ” not but an apology to essay their limitation .
After the concert , Thomas is spend .
Gerbal is sop in elbow grease .
Grip ’s hand are shed blood .
This was wright is ineffective to verbalise , with sass and natural language like jelly .
presently each role player will lead home , not to see one another until it ’s clock time to do it all again .
This was but they ’ll proceed to mean about this nighttime , and this birdsong , and ahmed abdul - malik , plot fresh course through idle words and its concealed history .
