Boonghee Music 1

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The fusion of world and free jazz has been long and prosperous. Coletrane's Kulu Se Mama, Pharoah Sanders, Kahili El-Zabar, and of course Hamid Drake. After so many years of seamless fusion, Hu Vibrational (Adam Rudolph and Hamid Drake) have almost mutated out of their jazz bodies into sleeker takes on numerous exotic brides. Call to Water retains a buoyancy of funk surrounding gamelan bells and an orchestra of different instruments hovering towards the central melody. Bonus Beats marches through a series of great percussive ideas, Transformation introduces a more Mali sound with noises bouncing dub like in and out of the mix, Meditation is Adam Rudolph's solo track and is the most jazz inflected of all the work here, and finally Murto attributed to F. Ramos and Rudolph comes apart spreading Ramos' playing over the top of shuffling based beats. An intriguing and original collaboration in need of more than just a volume two, but a regular series of sequels.