Mildlife - Chorus (2024)
Mildlife - Chorus (2024)
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Psychedelic Rock, Jazz Rock, Jazz-Funk | Label: Heavenly Recordings
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 290 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 105 Mb | 00:45:23
Psychedelic Rock, Jazz Rock, Jazz-Funk | Label: Heavenly Recordings
Two-time ARIA Award-winning Naarm / Melbourne-based psychedelic jazz outfit Mildlife present their much-anticipated third studio album, Chorus. Following 2020’s Automatic and 2017’s Phase, Chorus arrives as Mildlife’s most optimistic record, serving as a sonic testament to the band’s unwavering adoration for the beguiling realms of 70s psychedelic and cosmic sounds. “Chorus is about a coming together of disparate elements. Not in some sort of utopian aesthetic where everything works perfectly, but in the natural flow and state of things,” shares the band’s Jim Rindfleish. “It’s about cosmic compatibility and chemistry: what makes things work? Not just what makes the band work, but what makes good music, art or love? It’s the rhythm of nature”.Tracklist:
AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek
Mildlife, the Melbourne-based psychedelic jazz fusion quartet, won an ARIA award in 2020 for Best Jazz Album after reaching the Top Ten with their second LP, Automatic. Unable to tour due to the pandemic, they traveled to an abandoned island fort and played for the wildlife, and they recorded and filmed 2022's acclaimed Live from South Channel Island. The band's third studio album, Chorus, was inspired by that experience and the desire to evolve musically. In 2023 the group played in 23 countries, writing and rehearsing this material before recording it.
These seven tracks offer a funkier jazz direction that reflects optimism and cosmic consciousness. The album title, according to drummer/producer Jim Rindfleish, is "a coming together of disparate elements. Not in some sort of utopian aesthetic where everything works perfectly, but in the natural flow and state of things…cosmic compatibility and chemistry…. It's the rhythm of nature." Their trademark fascination with '70s psychedelia overlaps with their jazz-rock fusion obsession. Here, they've expanded their vocabulary by echoing influences from Polish jazz (Zbigniew Namysłowski, Wojciech Karolak, Michał Urbaniak, Adam Makowicz, etc.) to Italian disco (Piero Piccioni, Cerrone, Alberto Carpani, etc.) and electronic music from Kraftwerk to Richard James.
Opener "Forever" commences with congas, a drum kit, and a deep bassline, recalling Isaac Hayes' intro to "Shaft" before the double-tracked vocals are ghosted in from the margins. Synth, piano, and dubby reverb frame a circular bassline before the band delivers polished, lyrical funk. The intensely uplifting "Yourself" offers slinky jazz-funk, a hooky refrain, and warm, seamless interplay between the rhythm section, guitar, and keys. It sets up the bumping "Sunrise," which juxtaposes a guitar playing in American R&B style with post-punk dub effects with a ghostly rhythm track, infectious melody, and breezy atmosphere. "Musica" the set's hinge track, marries Kraftwerk synthtronics (à la "Showroom Dummies") to driving, dancefloor-ready Italo-disco like Giorgio Moroder with elliptical lyrics (written in Italian they were deliberately mistranslated). The latter half is more spacious and open; two of its three cuts are over nine minutes each. The title track is instrumental, introduced by stacked percussion put through over a dozen analog and digital delays. One can hear traces of Jon Hassell and Byrne and Eno, pulsed by snare breaks and a trancey bassline as wah-wah trumpet, sax, flute, guitars, and keys improvise around the vamp, emulating Weather Report and early electric Miles Davis simultaneously. Set closer "Return to Centaurus" has already inspired several remixes. A vocoder intones the philosophical lyrics as Mildlife lock onto a spacious, psychedelic groove that weds Pink Floyd's cosmic drift to jazzscapes by Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi and early recordings by Klaus Doldinger's Passport.
Chorus is stronger than its predecessors, more focused on creating seamless compositions and production. This quartet's uplifting grooves bridge and integrate the ambitious, soulful group interplay without once losing their way. This is the first great jazz-funk record of 2024.
01 - Forever
02 - Yourself
03 - Sunrise
04 - Musica
05 - Chorus
06 - Future Life
07 - Return To Centaurus
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