<pfseg id="0">Percussionist Max Jaffe ya zo tare da wani sabon solo album a 09.13.24 a Whited Sepulchre Records. Za ka iya san Max daga aiki tare da Dave Harrington da Patrick Shiroishi a cikin samar da album "Speak, Moment" a karshe wannan shekara. Jaffe's sensory percussion innovation da kuma kwarewa a matsayin batsa da aka kafa tare da kaya collaborations tare da Elder Ones, JOBS da kuma mafi yawa. Domin ya samar da solo a "@@Reduction of Man"@, Jaffe ya fara a matsayin batsa da kuma composer - shepherding trumpet player Chris Williams (HxH, Pink Si

<pfseg id="0">Max Jaffe ba da aikace-aikace don samar da wani album wanda ya zo a cikin shekaru da suka wuce a New York City a lokacin da ya sa a Reduction of Man. A aiki a matsayin mai ban sha'awar, Reduction of Man ya ƙunshi Jaffe's music trajectory yayin a New York City - a tsari da ya zama m a cikin wasu musicals da al'umma a lokacin da, fiye da linear ilimi na wani MFA musici ( wanda Jaffe yana da shi). Jaffe's second "solo" album ya samu shi a kan sha'awar na wani ensemble - ta ƙirƙirar ayyukan a lokacin da ya yi aiki: wani ƙaunar batsa, wani ƙirƙirar da kuma shirye-shirye a kan fly, ƙirƙirar ƙaunar musicals zuwa

Kai wani farko mai amfani da Sensory Percussion tambayoyi set fasaha, Jaffe ya ƙirƙirar tambayoyi set a cikin m sonic yankin. A lokacin da ta artistic koyarwa ta amfani da SP ya ci gaba, ya fara ji cewa da sha'awar da tsari ya fara a cikin ƙarfi. Bayan da yaushe amfani da tsarin da na'urar kamar yadda za a yi amfani da samfurori da kuma gyara samfurori (2019's Giant Beat ne na farko al'amurran wannan tsari), Jaffe ya tafi Reduction of Man kamar yadda wani hanyar da ya tafi shi da ƙananan fasaha.

<pfseg id="0">A sha'awar da shirye-shirye a cikin Pioneer Works Music Residency shirye-shirye ya gabatar da wata watan, a watan Yuli 2021, mai ban sha'awar da wadannan zane-zane. Max ya shirye-shirye mai ban sha'awar Chris Williams (HxH, Pink Siifu), guitarist Will Greene (Trigger), da bassist / keyboardist Jesse Heasly (Spirits Having Fun) don wani jerin core sesiyoyin; zamani Elder Ones bandmate saxophonist Matt Nelson (GRID, Flying Luttenbachers), tenor saxophonist Nathaniel Morgan (Helado Negro) da multi-instrumentalist Lucia Vitkova ya gabatar da ƙarin sesiyoyin don sauke da kuma abin da zai zama Reduction

This on-the-fly approach allowed Jaffe to tightly compose the chance encounters and momentary fireworks of improvisers playing off and to each other, creating five compositions that sound like worlds being created instead of a discrete set of improvisations. Reduction of Man is an album confidently existing in the in-between. It’s in-between composition and improvisation, jazz and experimental electronic music, recorded in NYC and finished in Los Angeles.

This “in-between” mirrors Jaffe’s life in many ways. Born to a Korean mother who grew up in Hong Kong and a Jewish father, and raised in a majority white suburb of the Bay Area, Jaffe found it difficult feeling connected to his parents’ minority cultures. Likewise, coming up in the Bay Area, Jaffe absorbed musical subcultures as they availed themselves to him: jazz, breakcore, hardcore punk, experimental electronic music, all were formative launch pads into his musical career. Max has drummed in the pointillist noise rock band JOBS, as part of the aforementioned Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones and as the live drummer for EDM artist Chrome Sparks.

While these different expressions reflect Max’s searching for exploratory sonic purchase, it was going to school  at the New School for Jazz in NYC that shifted his thinking about his own place in music. Having accessibility to legends like William Parker and Gerry Hemingway allowed Jaffe to experience the spiritual connections between the primarily punk-oriented scenes he started out in and the jazz-oriented world of NYC he had plunged into. In a formative turn, Max was exposed to the free jazz approach to percussion - more energy than metric precision. This allowed him to navigate his NYC experience in similar terms, that there was a groove that existed between and through myriad musical pulses.

Reduction of Man feeds on those same energies. Energy flowing from collective improvisation into Jaffe’s compositional tools and vice versa captures a groove that runs beneath the noise - a vital third thing that is neither Max Jaffe nor the players - it’s the sound of New York City plowing another groove through the center of another listener's musical nervous system.