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Review: 'Travis Duo: Jarvis Earnshaw and Trevor Dunn'
'Hypnagogia'   

-  Label: 'Bandcamp'
-  Genre: 'Ambient' -  Release Date: '10.12.21.'

Our Rating:
So light some dhoop sticks pour out a pot of Tumeric Chai and sit crossed legged on a floor mat in just the right sweet spot and glory in Hypnagogia by Travis Duo: Jarvis Earnshaw and Trevor Dunn who have made one of the best new jazz albums I've heard in a while. It is Trevor "Mr Bungle" Dunn who has also worked with The Melvins Fantomas and John Zorn among others teamed up with Jarvis Earnshaw and produced by Martin Bisi to produce an album of modern Indo-Jazz fusions.

This opens with Sab Kuch Milega that grabbed me from the start as it reminds me of the legendary Indo-Jazz Fusions album by Joe Harriott and John Mayer's double quintet, only this feels a bit slowed down and chilled, it's quite exploratory in places almost like they are feeling their way towards some sort of goal.

FAQ would for me include; are there really no Asian members of this band, is that a Xylophone or a Glockenspiel, whose voice weaves in and out of this like the ghost of June Tyson. Did they listen to Alice Coltrane while making this tune.

Orchid Hoodwink has some cool effects added to the sitar and bass with the vocals being as much textural as they are lyrical.

Fairweather Friend: Ode To Ernie Washington has a very late 60's Impulse feel to it like they are melding Alice Coltrane and Archie Shepp into some new contra textual indo-jazz world.

Hitherto feels like they have been smoking chillums of charice and are seeing visions and new perspectives on how to see the world as the bass is bowed deep into your soul while the sitar is carefully picked.

Uncanny Valley opens out into, almost Albert Ayler meets Joe Harriot downtown in the most boho bar they can find territory, to really take things properly out there with some wondrous bass tones.

Follie A Deux is an eleven-minute re-imagining of the Ornette Coleman classic Lonely Woman that's like a very slow dance ritual of courtship and trying to lure that Lonely Woman into your life so she can also marvel at the spatiality of the sound.

The album closes with the bonus track Lolloping Theta Broom Horse that has an expansionist style approach as it slowly broadens out it's a wonderful way to close a quite beguiling and wondrous journey of an album.

Find out more at https://jarvisearnshaw.bandcamp.com/album/hypnagogia-lp????https://www.jarvisearnshaw.com/ https://www.facebook.com/jarvis.earnshaw


  author: simonovitch

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