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.”
The Animal Spirits
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10101 My thoughts are commodities My lies are me My price is a…
I Have Put Out The Light Like the moon in blue heaven I′m alone in my room I…
Nothing Don't you know it's gone too wrong Early warning How…
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Silvia Rappini
It's perfect! Powerful
Roman P
Uzasne!!!
jorgeluisliguita
GENIO!
dk drujba
this is simply genius
jorgeluisliguita
Holden siempre ha sido mucho más en la música de lo que un día fue para ti. Y lo digo porque se que te gustaba su música, ya que gracias a ti encontré muchos otros temas.
¿Y porque para ti esto no es de genio? es absurda la pregunta. Cada uno tiene una visión, sentimientos, de lo que acaba de ver o escuchar. Ojala pudiese describir lo que siento cuando escucho esto. Pero solo con decirte que siento, y mucho, debe de bastar. Pocos son los que sin decir ni una palabra te transmiten tanto sentimiento, como en este caso.
dk drujba
its wrong formula because it doesnt take into account doggy weight
goodsirknight
Divide the number of saxophone notes per bar by the number of beats, multiply that by the stochastic value of the modular synth, add that to the number of letters in james holden's name, and then take that score away from the number of mass extinctions there have been since the formation of the planet, if that value lies between 7 & 12 then its 'genius'.
dk drujba
This video gave me some strange psychological experience.So while i was watchig this movie i met some fellings from shamans rite, and i was a part of it. Immersiveness was really strong. And i called it «simply» because there is no billion budget, no famous actors and complicated visual effects in video. And «genius» cause i felt a lot, but i cant explain you all, cause i cant explain it even for myself.
ad libitum
that statement only fits to your own perception, it makes no sense to ask someone why he feels something specific over a track, because he probably dont know for himself. but you already knew that right ?
Sound Puzzle
lovely !