{"id":954,"date":"2009-03-17T09:35:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hightwo.com\/ht\/?p=954"},"modified":"2009-03-17T09:35:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:35:55","slug":"954-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/954-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews -HNA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author: Trevor Tremaine
\nSource: Glamor Profession
\nLink to this article<\/a><\/p>\n

The occasional inspired detours aside, the venerable Detroit-area indie rock institution His Name is Alive<\/a> are more commonly heralded for their playfully experimental, soulful dream pop. Taking heed, I presumed the \u201ctribute\u201d of the disc\u2019s title to be of a more abstract nature, Marion Brown being the miraculous, under-sung free jazz saxophonist whose sides for ESP and Impulse! hold some of the most exploratory, expansive large ensemble improv since the most definitive dates of Ornette, Shepp, and Coltrane (whose Ascension<\/span> features Brown’s visionary playing). Instead, to my profound perplexity and delight, this set could not be more reverent. HNIA chief Warn Defever rounded up members of Ann Arbor-based unit NOMO<\/a> to tackle a number of Brown\u2019s compositions (apparently with his blessing, judging from the sticker on the case: “It’s beautiful, thank you. You really understand me.”) in a joyous style that captures the spirit of late-60s free music without ever impinging on sentimentality, and the swirly, reverb-laden dueling Rhodes pianos and ecstatic lead electric betrays the namesake\u2019s psychedelic roots. Every track is a killer, alternating between dense, moody soundscapes \u00e1 la Alice Coltrane, and swinging, energetic grooves reminiscent of Joe McPhee\u2019s Nation Time<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author: Trevor Tremaine Source: Glamor Profession Link to this article The occasional inspired detours aside, the venerable Detroit-area indie rock […]<\/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-954","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":944,"url":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/reviews-hna-5\/","url_meta":{"origin":954,"position":0},"title":"Reviews – HNA","author":"admin","date":"March 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Author: John DeFore Source: San Antonio Current Link to this article This month\u2019s most surprising jazz-pop blend comes from the uncategorizable (and hard-to-find-in-stores) group His Name is Alive, whose latest, Sweet Earth Flower (High Two) centers on compositions by little-known avant-garde saxophonist Marion Brown. 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