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Original Cultures - Cat No: OCLP006
- updated:2024-11-05
A long-awaited new release from Original Cultures, the singular Bologna, Italy label known for issuing Moresounds' killer material and for a steady run of obscure cosmic beatdown and uniquely original, carefully crafted releases!!! The much-anticipated debut album from an Italian electrified post-jazz trio, featuring Rob Mazurek, a key figure of the Chicago jazz scene familiar from Chicago Underground and beyond.
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The landmark debut album on Original Cultures from The Elephant, an up-and-coming abstract electrified jazz trio of three Italians — Gabriele Mitelli, Pasquale Mirra, and Cristiano Calcagnile — lined up with drums, electronics, trumpet, and vibraphone. Thrilling improvisational sessions that spark with dubby effects, woven from a faint spiritualism and a European-Italian avant-garde sense of space, taste, and feel, across eight tracks. Includes a 400mm x 600mm gatefold folded poster.
Enthusiastically supported and played by Gilles Peterson — Worldwide FM, Ross Allen — NTS, Bill Brewster — NTS, Quinton Scott — Strut, Piotr Orlov — Lot Radio, Toshio Matsuura — interfm, and Peter Curtin — RTE. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)