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Love Is the Language

  • Cat No: PHVA001
  • updated:2026-01-04

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12inch 3190 JPY

Finnish maverick maestro and legendary player Jimi Tenor — whose pioneering, love-of-music-drenched career has run for decades — released a single on Philophon in March 2024, and its Sun Ra-esque cosmic hymn of African soul-jazz, "Love Is The Language," has now been reinterpreted as cinematic orchestral jazz and rebuilt as a deep house arrangement in a soul-stirring 12-inch made in tandem with Swiss flash-mob project Critical Ass!! A recommended release. Highly recommended.

A1 "Love Is The Language (Critical Ass Version)" (sample1) is a soul-stirring space-spiritual-jazz deep house performance: it opens with cinematic orchestration and spiritual space jazz carried by flowing, elegant horn arrangements, then makes a magnificent turn into 4/4 beatdown house in its second half, even recreating the imaginary sound of planets colliding in outer space — beautiful stuff. Equally great is B1 "Love Is The Language (Koti Koti Version)" (sample2), a grand nu-jazz deep house version at 137 BPM that drops in a spiritual-jazz take on the main theme phrase plus a percussion break. And the divine original, B2 "Love Is The Language (Original Version)" (sample3), stands as a Sun Ra-style cosmic hymn of African soul-jazz — wonderful. Played alongside a prayer-like wish: "May the language of love be the metaphysical sun, granting the energy to carry the cosmic project of humanity across generations." A gem of a 12-inch destined to become an anthem of cosmic love as future space-jazz dance music. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

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