In the last few years, Holden has only released collaborations: three swirl… Read Full Bio ↴In the last few years, Holden has only released collaborations: three swirling folk dances with Moroccan Gnawa musician Maalem Mahmoud Guinia, and a 47-minute tribute to minimalist shaman Terry Riley with tabla player Camilo Tirado.
The Animal Spirits is an album-length amalgamation of all of these collaborative projects, expanding his live setup with Tom Page to include saxophonist Etienne Jaumet (who previously lent his freeform skronk to The Inheritors), cornetist Marcus Hamblett, multi-instrumentalist Liza Bec on recorders and North African ghaïta, and Lascelle Gordon of free jazz group Woven Entity.
It’s also his most dramatic rejection yet of anything resembling “dance music” in the functional, DJ-led sense. The album was recorded live in one room at Holden’s Sacred Walls studio in London: single takes, no overdubs, no edits. While his modular synth still guides much of the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic material, Holden occupies the role of bandleader rather than frontman, simply laying the stage for his collaborators’ off-the-cuff creativity; he specifically names Don Cherry and Pharoah Sanders as inspirations, drawing a link between the universal preoccupations of their spiritual jazz albums and the sense of ritual abandon at the heart of what Holden calls “folk-trance.”
The Animal Spirits is an album-length amalgamation of all of these collaborative projects, expanding his live setup with Tom Page to include saxophonist Etienne Jaumet (who previously lent his freeform skronk to The Inheritors), cornetist Marcus Hamblett, multi-instrumentalist Liza Bec on recorders and North African ghaïta, and Lascelle Gordon of free jazz group Woven Entity.
It’s also his most dramatic rejection yet of anything resembling “dance music” in the functional, DJ-led sense. The album was recorded live in one room at Holden’s Sacred Walls studio in London: single takes, no overdubs, no edits. While his modular synth still guides much of the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic material, Holden occupies the role of bandleader rather than frontman, simply laying the stage for his collaborators’ off-the-cuff creativity; he specifically names Don Cherry and Pharoah Sanders as inspirations, drawing a link between the universal preoccupations of their spiritual jazz albums and the sense of ritual abandon at the heart of what Holden calls “folk-trance.”
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@thewitherchannel1053
THIS IS THE SONG OF LIFE ITSELF
@jimbo62
This guy is the reason i started to listen electronic music with his BALANCE 005 mixed cd. Since then we both have come a long way. Listening this track, feelings unknown once more emerge…Thank you James.
@SynthHackerTV
Still one of my fav mixes of all time, what a journey. Loving the new stuff too.
@Aonox48
James, your story is just like mine. I couldn’t agree more about this track
@samusaran13372
Fortune telling fish, curled to suggest home ;)
@brotherdon6439
I had this on repeat on Spotify without noticing it, appreciated even more the 10th time when I had noticed that I wasn’t ever curious on when it was going to end. I was just enjoying the feels.
@klarakrass9160
wow wie immer der moment wenn man sich selbst erkennt und nicht rennt💓💓❤🔥❤🔥
@thewitherchannel1053
what a powerful track
@imtheinformation
This track is fighting the chaos of everything it could be, arriving all at once, from every direction, and barely holding it together. Pretty lifelike.
@lolpatrol92
...but with a smile :-)