Afrikan Sciences

Have It Tall b/w Daily Gates

ESP Institute

ESP043

Afrikan Sciences

Have It Tall b/w Daily Gates

ESP Institute

ESP043

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ARTIST
Afrikan Sciences
TITLE
Have It Tall b/w Daily Gates
LABEL
ESP Institute
CAT NO.
ESP043
FORMAT
12"
RELEASE DATE
  • 28/02/2020 [INITIAL RELEASE]
TERRITORY
Worldwide
BARCODE
197188749408
GENRE
Contemporary Electronic Jazz Deep House Down Tempo
FEATURING
Afrikan Sciences

TRACK LISTING

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  1. A. Have It Tall  ▾
  2. B. Daily Gates  ▾

SALES NOTES

Afrikan Sciences hold time in one hand and space in the other. This is his first offering for the ESP Institute. Side A’s 'Have It Tall' boasts the characteristics of an improvised jam session. Tipped-off in a theme of rapid-fire percussion and an innocent chord progression, each instrument ventures into its own loosely carved space, allowing squelching sporatic bursts of bassline, rhodes piano twinkles and a frenetic funky drummer pattern that haphazardly cuts in and out, to coexist without ever stepping on one another’s toes. The production is simultaneously aggressive and mesmerizing, bright cracking punctuations alternate with a fat rolling bottom end, all elements dry and present. On side B’s 'Daily Gates', things are a little slower to get rolling. Currents of swirling synth chords carry over from the previous side, but here we’re dragged across a long and thumping upright bass intro. The fabric of instrumentation casually weaves itself over a 5 minutes of liberally syncopated rimshots, hi-hats and snaps, before a guitar interjects with a triumphant and otherworldly melody, a brief shot of glowing optimism before returning us to a heavy cosmic slop. These two songs have built the end into the beginning.

Published: 13th February 2020

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