{"id":940,"date":"2009-03-17T09:21:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hightwo.com\/ht\/?p=940"},"modified":"2009-03-17T09:21:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:21:27","slug":"reviews-hna-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/reviews-hna-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews – HNA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author: Jason Ferguson<\/strong><\/a>
\nSource: Orlando Weekly
\nLink to this article<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\n

Many fans of His Name Is Alive may be struck by the oddity of their favorite dreampop act delivering an album of cosmic free-jazz. But HNIA main man Warn Defever\u2019s studio, Brown Rice, isn\u2019t named after a Don Cherry album for nothing. As the participant in many non-rock-oriented extracurricular activities involving jazz, noise and theatrical ridiculousness, Defever is far from limited by the expectations listeners may have of His Name Is Alive. Regardless of how diverse that group\u2019s albums have been, Defever\u2019s always kept them firmly within a modern-pop framework, leaving his more out-there tendencies for other projects. Putting the HNIA moniker on this project, then, is something of a surprise. Even more surprising is how Defever and the nine musicians performing with him manage to successfully channel the rootsy, psychedelic ambience of Marion Brown\u2019s best work, without ever trying to directly mimic it. It\u2019s a tribute album in the truest sense: one that captures the essence of the artist being honored, but without resorting to rote renditions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author: Jason Ferguson Source: Orlando Weekly Link to this article Many fans of His Name Is Alive may be struck […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_eb_attr":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47,84,85,50,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","category-his-name-is-alive","category-ht014","category-releases","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":937,"url":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/reviews-hna-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":940,"position":0},"title":"Reviews – HNA","author":"admin","date":"March 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Author: By Jon Dale Source: Dusted Magazine Link to this article His Name Is Alive - \"Sweet Earth Flying\" (Sweet Earth Flower - A Tribute To Marion Brown) On Xmmer, as with other His Name Is Alive albums, head prefect Warn Defever builds a model of his universe, populates it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Artists"","block_context":{"text":"Artists","link":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/category\/artists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":946,"url":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/reviews-hna-6\/","url_meta":{"origin":940,"position":1},"title":"Reviews – HNA","author":"admin","date":"March 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Author: FRANKLIN BRUNO Source: Boston Phoenix Link to this article In 2006, His Name Is Alive songwriter\/guitarist\/recording whiz Warn (once \u201cWarren\u201d) Defever used a modest arts grant to hold a \u201cpeace conference\u201d in New York City. Called \u201cCome Out the Wilderness,\u201d the proceedings included one \u201cnormal\u201d HNIA show (though there\u2019s\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Artists"","block_context":{"text":"Artists","link":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/category\/artists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":950,"url":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/950-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":940,"position":2},"title":"Reviews – HNA","author":"admin","date":"March 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Author: mpardaiolo Source: Audiversity Link to this article \u201cOrnette Coleman is the same as Charlie Parker, but he did it a different, the opposite way. Charlie Parker did everything that he did based on knowing harmony and chords. Ornette Coleman did everything he did based on knowing how to reach\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Artists"","block_context":{"text":"Artists","link":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/category\/artists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":932,"url":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/reivews-hna\/","url_meta":{"origin":940,"position":3},"title":"Reivews – HNA","author":"admin","date":"March 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Author: Chris May Source: All About Jazz Link to this article Starting with a bold and beautiful idea\u2014to perform a concert tribute to an iconic musician from an earlier age while that musician is still with us\u2014His Name Is Alive have gone on to record an album of such oh-my-god\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Artists"","block_context":{"text":"Artists","link":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/category\/artists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24,"url":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/great-reviews-for-his-name-is-alives-marion-brown-cd\/","url_meta":{"origin":940,"position":4},"title":"Great reviews for His Name is Alive’s Marion Brown CD","author":"Daniel Piotrowski","date":"April 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"When we started telling people we were gonna release a jazz tribute album from a rock band, some were quite suspicious. Those who have heard, now also believe. A few months after its release, His Name Is Alive's daring and sensitive tribute to Marion Brown, Sweet Earth Flower, is already\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "His Name is Alive"","block_context":{"text":"His Name is Alive","link":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/category\/his-name-is-alive\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Sweet Earth Flower","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hightwo.net\/two\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ht014-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":942,"url":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/reviews-hna-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":940,"position":5},"title":"Reviews – HNA","author":"admin","date":"March 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Author: Derek Taylor Source: Bagatellen Link to this article Marion Brown survives as one of the few among the New Thing circle to have secured financial solvency in his advanced years. Sadly, the source of his income is not widespread recognition and consumption of his music, but instead a financial\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Artists"","block_context":{"text":"Artists","link":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/category\/artists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}