Our Point Of Departure

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Over the course of but a few short years, percussionist Doug Scharin's HIM has evolved from an innovative one-man dub project into an innovative post-rock exercise utilizing the talents of musicians like Bundy K. Brown and Rob Mazurek on Sworn Eyes. In its latest incarnation, another giant sidestep is taken by enlisting all new personnel and asserting a defiantly jazzy profile. Our Point of Departure has its genesis in tracks laid down by Scharin (percussion and electronics) and fellow June of 44 member Fred Erskine (bass, keyboard and some nice, brash trumpet), subsequently fleshed out with demonic drive by Carlo Cennamo, Jon Theodore and Sean Meadows improvising on tenor saxophone, guitar and keyboards, before Scharin proves that the dub is still very much an imperative by mixing the whole thing down into a tight 38-minute long, reverberating outsider bebop jam. The evolution of Doug Scharin as a group leader and HIM as a project has made for fascinating listening thus far and promises to continue to surprise, delight and swing for years to come.