Max Jaffe // Reduction of Man LP

アメリカ・LAのパーカッショニストMax Jaffeが、2024年9月に同国アンビエントレーベルWhited Sepulchreからリリースしたレコードです。

実験エレクトロニック・ジャズ〜ストレンジビーツ5曲を収録。

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12" black vinyl.
Edition of 300. 

Tracklist:

A1. The Ollie          5:30
A2. The Simp         5:12
A3. The Yasha        10:02
B1. The Droopy     5:15
B2. B+B      15:25

Text excerpt by Whited Sepulchre:

" Max Jaffe wasn’t planning on creating an album commemorating the decade-plus he spent living in New York City while recording Reduction of Man. Operating as a preemptive elegy, Reduction of Man traces Jaffe’s musical trajectory while in New York City - a process of becoming fluent in several musical languages and cultures all at once, rather than the linear education of an MFA musician (which Jaffe also is). Jaffe’s second “solo” album finds him at the helm of an ensemble - leading the project as he plays: one hand drumming, the other composing and editing on the fly, shepherding multiple musical voices towards a single end - a sinewy tension between noise and groove.

As an early adopter of the Sensory Percussion drum set technology, Jaffe has been expanding the drum set into exciting sonic territory. As his artistic practice using SP developed, he began to feel that his relationship with the process had hit a wall. Having previously used the sensor system as a way to trigger and manipulate samples (2019’s Giant Beat being the first evidence of this process), Jaffe took to recording Reduction of Man as a way to challenge himself and the nascent technology’s limitations.

An invitation to participate in the Pioneer Works Music Residency program provided an opportunity to spend a month, in July 2021, dedicated to these creative goals. Max invited trumpet player Chris Williams (HxH, Pink Siifu), guitarist Will Greene (Trigger), and bassist / keyboardist Jesse Heasly (Spirits Having Fun) for a series of core sessions; former Elder Ones bandmate saxophonist Matt Nelson (GRID, Flying Luttenbachers), tenor sax player Nathaniel Morgan (Helado Negro) and multi-instrumentalist Lucia Vitkova joined on additional sessions to improvise and record what would become Reduction of Man. Jaffe would trigger an “event” using Sensory Percussion to which the players would respond through improvisation. Jaffe would then process and manipulate the band's output in real time - drumming with one hand, composing with the other.

This on-the-fly approach allowed Jaffe to tightly compose the chance encounters and momentary fireworks of improvisers playing off and to each other, creating five compositions that sound like worlds being created instead of a discrete set of improvisations. Reduction of Man is an album confidently existing in the in-between. It’s in-between composition and improvisation, jazz and experimental electronic music, recorded in NYC and finished in Los Angeles. [...]"

Artist : Max Jaffe

Label : Whited Sepulchre

cat no : WSR053