New CD ESP 4055 Talibam! - Boogie in the Breeze Blocks

The Brooklyn duo Talibam!fs first ESP Diskf release, Boogie in the Breeze Rocks, is a narrative earful as warped and wonderful as spicy pasta, fresh grapes and caramel crunch. An ensemble record joining 2008fs Thelonious Monk Jazz Institute winner, Jon Irabagon (tenor sax); Peter Evans of Sparks (trumpet); guitarists Chris Forsyth from Peeesseye, Anders Nilson and Chin Chinfs Jeremy Wilms; along with Mostly Other People Do the Killingfs Moppa Elliot on upright bass; all filtered through Talibam! To make music of one voice and cohesion. It is ensemble playing that goes beyond personal choice to capture a mood and the deep anthropology of the strange beauty of contemporary opposing and debt-maxed-out stimuli.


Personnel

Matthew Mottel - piano, fender rhodes, mini moog, glamor box oscillator, roland juno-1 alpha synth, banjo, organ, alesis nano synth, voice

Kevin Shea - drums, objects, roland spd-s, voice

Tim Dahl - electric bass (2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11)
Moppa Elliott - upright bass (6)
Michael Evans - percussion (4)
Peter Evans - trumpet (2, 4, 6, 11), voice (2)
Chris Forsyth - guitar, voice (2)
Jon Irabagon - saxophone (2, 4, 6)
Danielle Kuhlmann - voice (1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12)
SamKulik - trombone (2, 4, 6, 11), voice (2)
RobbieLee - renaissance instruments (4)
AndersNilsson - electric guitar (4, 6)
MikePride - vocals (4)
JeremyWilms - electric guitar (4, 11), fretless guitar (11)
Bird field recordings from "Ornithology-Shadows" by MichaelPestel & JeroenvanWesten (11)


Track Listing
1.

Predetermined to the Master Plan
2. Ghost Cloud
3. Slap Yr Boots On! Oysters Await
4. Entertaining the After Beast
5. Jim O'Rourke
6. Schroeder Meets Jagger
7. Not Just Any Kind of Fruit and Veg
8. Movement of Ta! People
9. Roosevelt Island: I Can't Do It.
10. Mao Mix
11. Nike Rim Johb
12. Herodiade

All songs/words by Talibam! (Talibam Music BMI)

Credits

Produced/arranged by Talibam!

Recorded & mixed by Josh Clark at The Seaside Lounge, Brooklyn
Recorded & mastered by Mitch Rackin at Tone Floast Studios, NYC
Live recordings by Jocelyn Soubiran at Zebulon Cafe Brooklyn & Joseph Frivaldi at Club Rehab NYC
Photos by Herve Goluza (cover/back) & Syeus Mottel (inside)
Producton Manager: Adam Downey

Design by Miles Bachman


Press Quotes

"...a brain-rattling demolition of the entire avant lesson plan, as those with a more academic criteria might be inclined to teach it. " - Mike Lupica, Dusted Reviews

"Ornette Coleman playing on Soft Machine's Fourth in hell... Talibam!'s brand of shitstorm skronk is grounded in more intelligent thought and dynamic group exchange than many of the more hyped transmissions from the contemporary American 'noise' underground." - Tiny Mix Tapes Dot Com

"Mottel is like Keith Emerson on a serious PCP bender, spitting out thick snarling sheets of synth buzz, spraying it like machine gun fire, melodies are tangled and complicated little knots hurled into the fray like cannonballs made out of steel string and roof nails. The sax is all over the place, adding tonal color, mad squawking, chittering chirps and deep fuzzy moans, this is a massive chaotic free for all." - Aquarius Records

"Gonzo jazz rock fusion at its most inspired." - Paris Transatlantic

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