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Becoming Thunderous

by Sleet

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Coherences in the Interstices 09:50
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The Mood Superbia 07:07
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Thunder Neath the Moonlit Sky 10:34
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Basement of Normal Frenzy 12:02
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Bumping Humps a Bit 00:50
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Manifesto On Improvisation 10:59
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1 Coherences in the Interstices

Drums, Thom Sleet, then William Morris shows mastery of the Jamstick, some piano wrinkles in interstices. Bass by John McGoddard, pounces on the jazz. At 3 minutes in, Sleet pops it up a notch, piano noodles blues intervals in indifferent keys, and it begins to get a touch frantic after 5 and a half. Shortly after 6 minutes John and Thom get it on up, leaving the piano to chordal chaos. It just gets beatier and beatier from then on. Coherence can never last, however, and the Jamstick takes it all to outer space.

2 The Mood Superbia

Honking urban zones form instantly, as the drums push frenzy in pure funk terms, Derek rules the airwaves in and out, Goddard keeps pressing it, over and under the Jamstick mood of lost urban regrets, ensconced by guitar melody, when, at the 3rd minute, Derek takes it from jazz to suburbia, superbia, in fact. Some midnight regrets steal in on a cascade of guitar chords, and as quickly die back down to something else entirely, Sleet spinning new beat sequences out as fast as you want them. 6 minutes in, a sideways duet goes on between the piano and guitar, that continues all the way out.

3 Thunder Neath the Moonlit Sky

Chugging like plugs, sparked up in funk, marching to Sleet time, piano and guitar follow each other around an uncertain melodic center. The up remains the beat, on the one on the one. Bass strums out thunderous bottom. Right before 3 minutes, Jamstick pops up and away. Derek throws down a meandering series of chords, then answers some piano chords, and Sleet bring down a sparse ambiance of light rain in the forest, and Derek takes it on out of there. Right before 6 minutes in, Bill finally gets up on it with the stick, guitar and piano get percussive behind it, until at 7 minutes in, we all get led away by the hairs of our chinny chin chins. Then Derek takes to the frosty moonlit sky we’ve sketched out behind him, up up and up. At 9 minutes the Jamstik and Sleet take it up into the stratosphere of musical exception, where expectations offer more than silence ever could bear.

4 Basement of Normal Frenzy

Welcome to the beat basement, gentlemen, rest your feet, ladies sit a spell, all y’all gone to the robot lounge, where vibes chime over churning guitar chords. At 2 minutes things get serious, with thoughtful explorations being going on everywhere, especially in the fur covered mallet sound of the electronic drums. Jamstick wells up and Goddard breaks it all out, reducing the piano to 12 tone exclamations. The drums take it back up, Derek hits the axe up, and hallowed choirs sing bright phrases behind soaring guitar shows. 7 minutes gets extra real, with Goddard going from here to there in perfect tightness. It gets pretty darn psychedelic for a while, until choirs sing us back to normal frenzy, I mean, normalcy. Guitar rock frenzy ensues, with a strange hypno beat, until Sleet beats it back to a gallop again, and guitar breaks it perfectly down, down, and down.

5 Bumping Humps a Bit

Huge humping beat, with some synth over it, short and with it all.

6 Manifesto On Improvisation

Starts out anxious and wary, then I take the piano for a jaunty little walk, with a backdrop of nonstop Sleet type beats, Goddard finger funking it up, Jamstick creating textures and spaces. After 3 minutes a enormous lead solo comes off courtesy of Derek, while the piano plugs alone behind, until Sleet starts one of his classic unwinds. It gets intensely beat centric and the room revolves around the revolutions of the drums. Piano gets bright and spritely, some amazing synth comes back on up, two chords, one half step, and it gets clearer and clearer. Right before it gets too close to 9 minutes it gets super serious again, guys, and then Sleet thunders into an act of nature, thunderous and insistent, and we all fall down. It segues into a tiny encore of potential codas.

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released April 5, 2017

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