Hearn Gadbois - collaborator of Patti Smith, Meredith Monk, Yoko Ono, Wim Wenders, and The Master Musicians of Jajouka - heads up an enchanting album of post-4th world esotericism following from lines explored by Jon Hassell or Mecanica Popular
‘Rara Avis’ is, somewhat remarkably, only the 2nd solo release by a roving artist who started his career playing conga in jazz and funk bands in the Middle East, and became a consummate collaborator with leading lights of NYC downtown scene in the ‘80s, playing in the psych fusion band Saqqara Dogs and on Tzadik Records. Using custom self-built acoustic instruments and a smattering of electronics, Gadbois draws on multiple modes of traditional trance/ecstatic music in a wonderfully loose and rhythmically psychedelic style personalised by his restless Indian percussion techniques of hand and foot playing that animates his music with a gripping quality that lends itself to fringe ‘floors or lowlit home bops, forever flowing forward and outwards with the lushest concern for the listener.
His first solo release and vinyl debut, following 2002’s ‘Joinery’ CD concludes with that album’s title tune, beside 11 works previously scattered among compilations issued 1983-2020. Collected, they open out a kaleidoscopic showcase of imaginative modal fusion rich with heady spirits that could be termed, as he describes, as; “Mystery Psychedelic Crime Jazz (Tuba City, Flesh of the Spirit), Ayahuasca Hut Bachelor Pad Music (Night, Take the Waters, Wood), or Party Music that just fell from the sky or bubbled up through a crack in the earth (Flown Home, What the Goatherd Heard)”. Outsider in scope, and worldly with it, the set turns up some peachy highlights in the mesh of text-to-speech vox and rhythmelodic hustle in ‘Mojo’ recalling Paul DeMarinis jamming with Luis Delgado, thru to rolling tombak-like patterns resonating modern works by Mohammad Reza Mortazavi & Burnt Friedmann efforts in ‘Joinery’, with sultry late night NYC atmospheres reflecting Eli Keszler works in ‘Night’, or a funkier Muslimgauze in ’Flown Home’, offering a superb entry portal to his imaginative inner world.
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Hearn Gadbois - collaborator of Patti Smith, Meredith Monk, Yoko Ono, Wim Wenders, and The Master Musicians of Jajouka - heads up an enchanting album of post-4th world esotericism following from lines explored by Jon Hassell or Mecanica Popular
‘Rara Avis’ is, somewhat remarkably, only the 2nd solo release by a roving artist who started his career playing conga in jazz and funk bands in the Middle East, and became a consummate collaborator with leading lights of NYC downtown scene in the ‘80s, playing in the psych fusion band Saqqara Dogs and on Tzadik Records. Using custom self-built acoustic instruments and a smattering of electronics, Gadbois draws on multiple modes of traditional trance/ecstatic music in a wonderfully loose and rhythmically psychedelic style personalised by his restless Indian percussion techniques of hand and foot playing that animates his music with a gripping quality that lends itself to fringe ‘floors or lowlit home bops, forever flowing forward and outwards with the lushest concern for the listener.
His first solo release and vinyl debut, following 2002’s ‘Joinery’ CD concludes with that album’s title tune, beside 11 works previously scattered among compilations issued 1983-2020. Collected, they open out a kaleidoscopic showcase of imaginative modal fusion rich with heady spirits that could be termed, as he describes, as; “Mystery Psychedelic Crime Jazz (Tuba City, Flesh of the Spirit), Ayahuasca Hut Bachelor Pad Music (Night, Take the Waters, Wood), or Party Music that just fell from the sky or bubbled up through a crack in the earth (Flown Home, What the Goatherd Heard)”. Outsider in scope, and worldly with it, the set turns up some peachy highlights in the mesh of text-to-speech vox and rhythmelodic hustle in ‘Mojo’ recalling Paul DeMarinis jamming with Luis Delgado, thru to rolling tombak-like patterns resonating modern works by Mohammad Reza Mortazavi & Burnt Friedmann efforts in ‘Joinery’, with sultry late night NYC atmospheres reflecting Eli Keszler works in ‘Night’, or a funkier Muslimgauze in ’Flown Home’, offering a superb entry portal to his imaginative inner world.