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Matt Chamberlain & Brian Haas - Prometheus Risen (2016)

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Matt Chamberlain & Brian Haas - Prometheus Risen (2016)

Matt Chamberlain & Brian Haas - Prometheus Risen (2016)
Jazz | MP3 320 kbps | 41:32 | ~101 Mb
Label: The Royal Potato Family | Tracks: 11 | Rls.date: 2016

Out in the high desert of Santa Fe, New Mexico, some 7,500 feet above sea level in the foothills of the majestic Sangre de Christo Mountains, strange and wonderful things were bubbling up when keyboardist Brian Haas and drummer Matt Chamberlain met in the magical adobe style Frogville Studios for three days of unadulterated improvisation. Unlike their previous collaboration, 2013's Frames, which was meticulously through-composed by Haas and performed with exacting precision by the duo, their second recording together, Prometheus Risen, is a free-flowing, no-holds-barred, in-the-moment encounter based on daredevil instincts, a shared arranger's aesthetic and mutual trust. While all the keyboard parts, Moog bass lines, ambient washes, textures, loops and huge groove playing on the kit might suggest a precisely-crafted project involving multiple layers of overdubbing and tons of post-production work, the entire album was in fact done live in the studio.

Matt Chamberlain, a revered drummer who has appeared on recordings with Brad Mehldau, Bill Frisell, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Morrissey, Mike Gordon, Of Montreal, Marco Benevento, David Bowie and Herbie Hancock, among countless others, fully embraced the idea of exploring freely in the studio with Brian Haas who, in addition to his solo work, tours with Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey and Nolatet.

Together on Prometheus Risen, Matt Chamberlain and Brian Haas present spontaneous composition at its finest. Chamberlain underscores pieces like "Space Colonization," "Orange Purple Sunshine" and "African Crowley" with his signature groove, while also providing a rainbow of colors throughout by thinking orchestrally from behind the kit through sampling and looping. Haas' melodious, fuzz inflected electric keyboard motifs (tweaked with Space Echo), alternately cascading and minimalist piano flourishes and deep dub bass-lines drives numbers like "Less Munitions," "More Mentations" and "Cosmic Vision." "Ancestral Availability" has Haas on piano and Moog bass going toe-to-toe with Chamberlain's controlled bashing in a manner that might recall Cecil Taylor's historic duet encounters with Max Roach. That adventurous, suite-like "Holding Deckard's Hand" melds cascading piano against an eerie ambient backdrop and throbbing backbeats, while "Intelligence Intensification" opens like a revved-up rocker and closes like a kinetic outtake from Philip Glass' Einstein on the Beach.

TRACKLIST
01 Space Colonization 03:43
02 More Mentations 02:58
03 Orange Purple Sunshine 03:19
04 Ancestral Availability 03:10
05 Holding Deckard's Hand 06:36
06 African Crowley 03:54
07 Less Munitions 03:22
08 Cosmic Vision 02:39
09 Neuro Quantum Adept 03:36
10 Intelligence Intensification 04:38
11 Lois Virginia Miller 03:37