Liminal Space

by Ill Considered

Liminal Space cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 12 November 2021
  • Label: New Soil, Marathon Music Group
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:00:50
  • Community rating: 3.84/5 from 10 ratings

Artists on this release: Leon Brichard, Ralph Wyld, Theon Cross, Sarathy Korwar, Ollie Savill, Ahnanse, Idris Rahman, Kaidi Akinnibi, Liran Donin, Robin Hopcraft, Tamar Osborn, Emre Ramazanoglu

Album Notes & Community Reviews

As their first fully-produced studio album, 'Liminal Space' marks a significant evolution for the London-based trio, augmenting their characteristically ferocious and freely improvised performances with considered arrangements and studio polish. The album fuses the core trio's raw, high-energy spiritual jazz with layered contributions from prominent guest musicians, incorporating influences from North African Gnawa music, punk, and funk. This results in a sound that balances ecstatic, trance-like grooves and blistering saxophone solos against more meditative and finely shaded moments, all while retaining the powerful interplay and improvisational core of their live recordings.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisational, spirituality, ritualistic, profound, saxophone

Tracklist

  1. First Light (07:36)
  2. Sandstorm (04:35)
  3. Loosed (06:15)
  4. Dust (04:49)
  5. Dervish (03:47)
  6. Pearls (09:53)
  7. Light Trailed (06:16)
  8. Knuckles (04:57)
  9. The Lurch (07:48)
  10. Prayer (04:54)

Credits

  • Idris Rahman - reeds, keyboards, saxophone, bass clarinet, flutes
  • Liran Donin - bass
  • Emre Ramazanoglu - drums, performer [sound, main], recorded by, mixed by, mastered by
  • Tamar Osborn - baritone sax, flute, saxophone
  • Ahnanse - saxophones, performer [sound]
  • Kaidi Akinnibi - saxophones, tenor sax, soprano sax, performer [sound]
  • Theon Cross - tuba, performer [sound]
  • Robin Hopcraft - trumpet, performer [sound]
  • Sarathy Korwar - percussion, tabla, performer [sound]
  • Ollie Savill - percussion, performer [sound]
  • Ralph Wyld - vibraphone, performer [sound]
  • Leon Brichard - bass, performer [sound]
  • Vincent De Boer - artwork [image, main], artwork [all]
  • Al White (8) - artwork [image], artwork [front, inside – pencil (red)]
  • Hans Schuttenbeld - artwork [image], artwork [front, inside – oil pastel]
  • Maurits Wouters - artwork [image], artwork [front, inside – fineliner (brown)]
  • Guy* - lacquer cut by

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