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01. Mike Reed - Your Soul
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02. Mike Reed - A Low Frequency Nightmare
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03. Mike Reed - We Just Came to Dance
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04. Mike Reed - Floating With an Intimate Stranger
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05. Mike Reed - Rahsaan In the Serengeti
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06. Mike Reed - Hold Me, Hold Me
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07. Mike Reed - Our Own Love Language
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08. Mike Reed - One Of Us
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ARTIST
REED, MIKE
TITLE
The Separatist Party
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
WE JAZZ
CATALOG #
WJCD 056CD
WJCD 056CD
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
10/27/2023
In January, 2022,
Mike Reed
brought together some of the most creative figures in Chicago's experimental and improvised music community -- cornetist
Ben LaMar Gay
and poet and spoken word artist
Marvin Tate
-- both of whom worked on his 2017 project
Flesh and Bone
, and who sporadically joined him in an improvising trio -- along with the members of
Bitchin Bajas
(multi-instrumentalists
Rob Frye
,
Cooper Crain
, and
Dan Quinlivan
). He called the new group the
Separatist Party
, a name he had occasionally used for ad hoc live performances, as well as a title for an old Flesh and Bone tune. The six musicians coalesced into an exciting new ensemble commingling a wide array of styles and influences into a groove-oriented expression of communion in the face of crippling solitude. The music draws upon a raft of influences, weaving together varied traditions and practices within a groove-oriented attack to forge something entirely new. One can glean wisps of
Don Cherry
's
Organic Music
conception, the ecstatic fire of
Pharoah Sanders
, the cycling minimalism of
Terry Riley
, the motoric rhythms of krautrock, the exploratory tones of
Sun Ra
, and clipped soul of vintage Ethiopian music within the Separatist Party's music, but no single element arrives wholesale. While defining the sound of Chicago has always been a fool's errand,
The Separatist Party
couldn't have come from anywhere else.
The Separatist Party
is the first installment of a three-album cycle involving a varied cast of musicians, dealing with themes of inner and outer human isolation.
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