{"id":1874,"date":"2011-04-12T17:35:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T22:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hightwo.com\/ht\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2011-04-12T17:35:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T22:35:21","slug":"sonic-liberation-front-slf-meets-sunny-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/sonic-liberation-front-slf-meets-sunny-murray\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic Liberation Front: SLF Meets Sunny Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sonic Liberation Front Meets Sunny Murray<\/p><\/div>\n

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  1. Init<\/li>\n
  2. Knowledge of the Sun<\/li>\n
  3. Meaningless Kisses<\/li>\n
  4. [download#31#nohits] [download#31#image]<\/li>\n
  5. Ochun Libre<\/li>\n
  6. Some Other Times<\/li>\n
  7. Nomingo<\/li>\n
  8. Under the Wave of Kanagawa<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Sunny Murray: drums
    \nKevin Diehl: drums, percussion, bata
    \nChuck Joseph: bata
    \nMatt Engle: bass
    \nTerry Lawson: tenor saxophone
    \nOkomfo Adwoa Tachempong: bass
    \nShawn Hennessy: bata
    \nTodd Margasak: cornet
    \nNichola Rivera: bata
    \nJoey Toledo: bata, percussion
    \nAdam Jenkins: alto saxophone
    \nKimbal Brown: trumpet
    \nFahir Kendall: bass<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    If you believe in chance, Sunny Murray and Sonic Liberation Front\u2019s Kevin Diehl met by chance. Diehl\u2019s phone number was on digit different than Khan Jamal\u2019s. Murray\u2019s mis-dialing of the legendary vibraphonist led to a 25-year-plus friendship between the two drummers.<\/p>\n

    In many ways it was \u201cmentorship by osmosis\u201d relationship. There were a few formal drum lessons, but by and large, it was an osmotic learning that not only involved Murray\u2019s unique approach to textural drumming, but also composition and concept. The period covers not only Diehl\u2019s time as a young musician in New York during the \u201980s loft era, but also runs concurrent with Diehl\u2019s exposure to the folkloric Afro-Cuban music, the foundation for the future of Sonic Liberation Front.<\/p>\n

    Fast forward to the late 1990s when Diehl formed Sonic Liberation Front with Chuck Joseph, one of the true conservators of the rich Afro-Cuban Lukumi culture, which is at the root of all music. The band didn\u2019t just connect the dots between avant-garde jazz and Lukumi roots, Sonic Liberation Front is on the only units today connecting folkloric music to jazz the way that Albert Ayler and Sunny Murray did in the 1960s.<\/p>\n

    After the release of SLF\u2019s debut album, Water and Stone, Sunny Murray engages the band for a series of collaborative concerts, including a 2002 appearance at the Vision Festival. The circulation of recordings from these concerts among fans enticed Murray and SLF to head into the studio together for the first time in 2008. Sonic Liberation Front Meets Sunny Murray features those studio recordings plus bonus recordings of the Murray\u2019s appearance with SLF in Philadelphia in 2002.<\/p>\n

    \u201cI had an image in my mind as to how things would play out,\u201d says Diehl. \u201cBut as is normal with Sunny Murray, it ends up being something else. I envisioned Murray playing freely over the folkloric bata rhythms. But I found myself playing freely over the bata rhythms, and Murray tapping into something more fundamental. Something which actually permeates his approach to his music \u2014 his Native American heritage. Murray plays rhythmically with the bata. He does so using a Native American approach to pulse. It then tied in what I heard with early Albert Ayler recordings where Murray\u2019s vocal chanting is as much as part of the experience as the drumming.\u201d<\/p>\n

    It is not only the folk-melody content where parallels are drawn, but also in the authenticity of feel, in the life-force that is present in both ancient and to the future forms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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