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 |
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| Week Ending: | Jan 8 | Dec 11 | Nov 20 | Nov 13 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 16, 2007: | The Alternative Jewish Alternative
Demian |
4. | Nov 13, 2005: | Coronary Heart Disease
Emphonic |
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| 2. | Jan 06, 2006: | Memory Select
Vapors |
5. | Nov 11, 2005: | Memory Select
Demian |
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| 3. | Dec 09, 2005: | Memory Select
Vapors |
6. | Nov 08, 2005: | Umami Jazz Program
Logic -- Meshell |
Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2005-11-12
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.
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