Lehman, Steve / Demian As Posthuman
Album: Demian As Posthuman   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Lehman, Steve   Added:Nov 2005
Label:Pi Recordings  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2005-11-06 Pull Date: 2006-01-08 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Jan 8 Dec 11 Nov 20 Nov 13
Airplays: 1 1 1 3

Recent Airplay
1. Feb 16, 2007: The Alternative Jewish Alternative
Demian
4. Nov 13, 2005: Coronary Heart Disease
Emphonic
2. Jan 06, 2006: Memory Select
Vapors
5. Nov 11, 2005: Memory Select
Demian
3. Dec 09, 2005: Memory Select
Vapors
6. Nov 08, 2005: Umami Jazz Program
Logic -- Meshell

Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2005-11-12
Mini-grooves with funk leanings but an avant-garde aesthetic. Like funk in eternal free-fall: tumbling rhythms forming a continuous but not-so-repeating groove. Similar feel to Steve Coleman's work in the '80s. Spacey little constructions. Most tracks are just sax and drums, with sequencer chords as backdrop. Tracks 1,7,12 bring in a full band.

Lehman and drummer Tyshawn Sorey are 2/3 of the band Fieldwork; third member Vijay Iyer (piano) joins on tracks 1 and 12. These tracks feature the same complexity and dry snap of Fieldwork, the same techno-hungry 21st-century feel informed by dance electronica. But where Fieldwork is hammering and ominous, this disk has a lighter touch, a more stripped-down feel.

1- Quick-footed w/small piano.
2- Elaborate groove with a couple of sequencer breaks
3- Slow overlapping sax tones
4- Reprise of 3, longer, with drum and drum-machine breaks
7- Midtempo groove, some electronics
8- Languid sax riff backs fast drum improv
11- Eerie, fairly fast, w/sci-fi noises
12- Happy, with insistant pulsing piano/sax

5, 6, 9, 10- Chaotic little grooves, with popping mid/fast saxes over drums and synth chords. All rather similar; 9 and 10 are more energetic, while 5 has a faster start.

Track Listing
1. Vapors   7. Logic -- Meshell
2. Demian   8. Logic -- Tyshawn
3. Damage Mobility (Acoustic)   9. Cognition -- Ernest Givens
4. Damage Mobility   10. Cognition -- Haywood Jeffries
5. Cognition -- Curtis Duncan   11. Emphonic
6. Cognition -- Drew Hill   12. Community