| Lehman, Steve / Demian As Posthuman |
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| Album: | Demian As Posthuman | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Lehman, Steve | Added: | 11/2005 | |
| Label: | Pi Recordings | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2005-11-06 | Pull Date: | 2006-01-08 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | 8 Jan | 11 Dec | 20 Nov | 13 Nov |
| 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 |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2005-11-12 | ||
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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. | ||
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