Optometry

by DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid

Optometry cover art

An ambitious project curated by DJ Spooky, released as part of Thirsty Ear's Blue Series which aimed to fuse jazz with other genres. The album brings together a formidable lineup of avant-garde jazz musicians, including Matthew Shipp, William Parker, and Joe McPhee. Their improvisations are set against DJ Spooky's illbient beats and turntablism, creating a dense, futuristic, and eclectic Afrofuturist statement.

Genres

  • Avant-Garde Jazz
  • Nu Jazz
  • Illbient

Tracklist

  1. Ibid, Desmarches, Ibid
  2. Reative Switching Strategies For The Control of Uninhibited Air
  3. Variation Cybernetique: Rhythmic Pataphysic- (Part I)
  4. Asphalt (Tome II)
  5. Optometry
  6. Sequentia Absentia (Dialectical Triangulation I)
  7. Rosemary
  8. Dementia Absentia (Dialectical Triangulation II)
  9. Parachtes
  10. Absentia Absentia (Dialectical Triangulation III)
  11. Variation Cybernetique: Rhythmic Pataphysic- (Part II)
  12. Perphique
  13. It's A Mad, Mad, Mad World