The Hopeless News, the new EP from my brother Jefferson Pilot, is both a logical stylistic extension from his last release (Shadow Hobby, with which Hopeless shares part of one track) and a radical departure... The almost elegiac (and not quite morose) moods and melodies are carried over here, but there's also a new use of found sounds, noise, and ambient experimentation that's quite unlike anything I've heard before, except from him... (granted, I don't get out much these days, but what else these days sounds like the loopy sax, backwards fragments, and mystified vocals of "Hello Mother Wilson"?)... the whole thing is a psychedelic mélange from a disoriented dreamscape, as sound events come and go, subsiding into the night-drenched synth-scape of "Garry Was Right" until the last track "LUV," which is a reworking of an older funk tune he'd done years ago... this one is a cubistic rearrangement of many of its elements, but ending with the same great anthemic power-pop refrain: "I've got to have your love..." You got it!
Playlist 2021-04-05:
*Muhal Richard Abrams: Think All, Focus One
*Noël Akchoté: Compositions 322 (Plays Anthony Braxton)
*Noël Akchoté: Compositions 347 & 360 (Plays Anthony Braxton)
*Booker T. & the MGs: Union Extended
*Boston Spaceships: The Planets Are Blasted
*John Coltrane: Ascension (Edition I)
*Duke Ellington: The Indispensable Duke Ellington Volumes 5/6 1940 (side 2)
*Duke Ellington: The Great Ellington Units
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 19 (disc 1) (selections)
*Duke Ellington: Masterpieces by Ellington
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Happy Birthday Duke! Vol. 4
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Happy Birthday Duke! Vol. 5
*Duke Ellington: All Star Road Band (side 1)
*Duke Ellington: At the Alhambra
*Duke Ellington: Anatomy of a Murder
*Duke Ellington: Unknown Session
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Featuring Paul Gonsalves
*Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington Plays with the Original Motion Picture Score Mary Poppins
*Duke Ellington: Cool Rock
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Yale Concert
*Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: The Conny Plank Session
*Exploding Star Orchestra: Stars Have Shapes "Ascension Ghost Impression #2"
*Grant Green: Street of Dreams
*Jimi Hendrix: Valleys of Neptune
*Vijay Iyer/Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems
*Jefferson Pilot: Shadow Hobby (3rd. version)
*Jefferson Pilot: The Hopeless News
*Leroy Jenkins/Jazz Composer's Orchestra: For Players Only "For Players Only [Part 1]"
*Byard Lancaster: My Pure Joy
*Ingrid Laubrock: Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt (disc 2)
*Peggy Lee: The Capitol Collectors Series (Volume 1, The Early Years)
*Tony Oxley Quintet: The Baptised Traveller "Stone Garden"
*Sonny Rollins: Rollins in Holland (disc 1)
*Sun Ra: Lanquidity
*Sun Ra All Stars: Milan, Zürich, West Berlin, Paris (discs 1, 4)
*Sun Ra: Blue Delight
*Cecil Taylor: 1998-12-06 Yoshi's, Oakland (CDR) (disc 3)
*Lewis Taylor: Stoned- Part I
*Lewis Taylor: Stoned- Part II
*Thumbscrew: The Anthony Braxton Project
*Various artists: The Birth of the Third Stream
*Various artists: Money No Be Sand (1960's Afro-Lypso/Pidgin Highlife/Afro-Rock/Afro-Soul)
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