SEXTANT

love this record

Hornets probably

god

rain dance

rain dance easy

Definitely "Rain Dance." I love the Mwandishi albums (and the concurrent albums by bandmembers) so much.

Probably "Rain Dance" but I'll listen just to be sure. Such a great album.

The whole album is great, but "Rain Dance" still sounds like the future.

I accidentally voted for Hidden Shadows. Should've been Rain Dance. But I love this goddamn album.

Rain Dance. This album is so great.

no idea which track is which. great record.

^^^

"Rain Dance" - Herbie Hancock

Went Hornets mainly cos there's more of it.

otm

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funky farting sounds

random resonator

hidden shadows sounds like a pimp walk where the pimp leans so far he looks like he's going to fall over every few steps, but then snaps right back to

Now I want to poll Thrust

lol great analogy

non-euclidean pimp strut music

just a flat out incredible record. listening for the first time in years. the editing is also so smart and sharp.

I need to read teh book on the Mwandishi band still.

I picked up a few of the live sets by the band a while back so hope i still have them. Pretty open ended but I think all the ones I got were before they were heavily augmented with electronics.

there's a few live videos around of the main band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lTimyz9T7k

That book was particularly good describing not only the band's musical changes, but also the business problems that led to Hancock disbanding them.

The Mwandishi band might be my favourite fusion group, but the sound of Headhunters just puts me off. Sextant started to go in that synth direction, "Hornets" gets on my nerves pretty quickly.

Got to learn not to postpone purchases from Book Depositary. Always seem to miss great reductions if I do. Just missed getting the Gluck for €20.
Found a coupon that did take a little off it though but goshdarn missed the bargain.
Well I'll have it next week hopefully and then I can let it float around the bed or read it eventually or something.
Then buy the Miles Davis Lost Quintet etc book or something.

Just wanted to let those of you who have a 5.1 multichannel speakers know that the quadraphonic version of this has been reissued on SACD, and it sounds kinda amazing! Some of 1970s quadraphonic albums I've listened to are kinda lazily mixed or use the four channels merely as a novelty (sounds circling around from the speaker to speaker etc.), but with this one they clearly put some thought into the 4 channel mix - the spatial effects on "Rain Dance" especially are really cool without drawing too much attention away from the playing.

I didn't think I could find new ways to appreciate this album after listening to it regularly for over 20 years, but there it is.

consider this bump an extra vote for hidden shadows. how can a music, be that good

mind you the other two tracks bristle with greatness as well

^newb

Glad you're enjoying Sextant (which I always think of as a classic old ILM fave)

Why didn't old ILM sit me down and force me to listen to it then lol

LJ here's his albums in order up until Perfect Machine. Don't sleep on the 60s stuff

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5nzf2b8snRpp2LwXeLrOnQ?si=27519d6011c84951

xp I've been trying for years to get you to

For clarity's sake, I heard Head Hunters a while back and liked it a lot without having my mind blown. Sextant a whole different story

Sextant is the 3rd and last of his Mwandishi line-up so ypu need to listen to the other 2

40-minute "Hidden Shadows" here is outrageous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjwzVRSXtDE

Crossings can't be a 10/10 as well can it? That'd be outrageous. I can't go around handing out 10s like confetti. But also, why is it this good? It has everything I like about my favourite avant-metal, but it's a jazz fusion album from 1972

Mwandishi is probably even better (and the 1st of the trilogy)

I heard that one earlier! It's great but these two are like, they ran a proof of concept and then set off for the fuckin cosmos

Eddie Henderson's Realization (1973) and Inside/Out (1974) are basically Mwandishi albums, same personnel with Henderson as leader

in my personal universe “sextant”, “crossings and “mwandishi” make up a “super session album” in the sense of “bitches brew”

re eddie henderson don’t forget “sunburst”, no herbie but it’s got bennie maupin, buster williams (!!), george duke, bobby hutcherson, julian priester and harvey mason on drums

i like “realization” a lot, it’s maybe not as gaseous sounding or as nebular as mwandishi but it gets into some sweet modal-spiritual strata east vibes

Eddie Henderson's Realization (1973) and Inside/Out (1974) are basically Mwandishi albums, same personnel with Henderson as leader

magnificent albums

re eddie henderson don’t forget “sunburst”, no herbie but it’s got bennie maupin, buster williams (!!), george duke, bobby hutcherson, julian priester and harvey mason on drums

Dont forget the Bennie Maupin - The Jewel In The Lotus

The book You'll Know When You get There by Bob Gluck was a pretty good read.

There are a number of live sets around by the band where they stretch out even further than the studio sets.
plus a couple of bits of live footage, one from the Molde festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lTimyz9T7k

and one live in the studio which si a bit longer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xExCa3ybzYA
thankyou French tv from the early 70s.

I remember reading about Mwandishi in The Wire when i wasn't very familiar with them and it mentioning some live material I think with teh electronics taht had me salivating and dying to hear it. I did have a load of the live material on my walkman which would turn up at random back when i was listening to music that way daily.

I'm glad that imago is discovering the spirit of jazz! He will be wearing a spiritual jazz hat soon enough!