Max Jaffe Jarinu "Reduction of Man" LP fid-09.13.24 fuq Whited Sepulchre Records

Il-perkussjonist Max Jaffe qed jiġi lura b'album ġdid solisti li ser joħroġ fl-13.09.24 fuq Whited Sepulchre Records. Inti taf Max mill-xogħol tiegħu ma' Dave Harrington u Patrick Shiroishi fuq l-album tagħhom kollaborattiv "Speak, Moment" li ħareġ fl-ewwel parti tas-sena. L-innovazzjoni ta' Max fil-perkussjoni sensorjali u l-ħiliet tiegħu bħala batterista wasslu għal kollaborazzjonijiet ricchi ma' Elder Ones, JOBS u ħafna oħrajn. Għall-xogħol solisti tiegħu fuq "Reduction of Man", Jaffe qed jidher bħala perkussjonist u kompożitur - jiggwida lill-pjanista Chris Williams (HxH, Pink Siifu), il-gittarist Will Greene (Trigger), u l-bassista / keyboardist Jesse Heasly (Spirits Having Fun) l-ex membru tal-banda Elder Ones saxophonist Matt Nelson (GRID, Flying Luttenbachers), il-pjanista tenor Nathaniel Morgan (Helado Negro) u multi-istrumentalist Lucia Vitkova permezz ta' serje ta' sessjonijiet improvvisati li eventwalment saru f'dan ir-reġistrazzjoni. Ir-riżultat huwa strutturat u kompletament ħieles, jadatta għall-kompożizzjoni ta' Jaffe fuq il-mument u l-editjar rigoruz.

Max Jaffe wasn’t planning on creating an album commemorating the decade-plus he spent living in New York City while recording Reduction of Man. Operating as a preemptive elegy, Reduction of Man traces Jaffe’s musical trajectory while in New York City - a process of becoming fluent in several musical languages and cultures all at once, rather than the linear education of an MFA musician (which Jaffe also is). Jaffe’s second “solo” album finds him at the helm of an ensemble - leading the project as he plays: one hand drumming, the other composing and editing on the fly, shepherding multiple musical voices towards a single end - a sinewy tension between noise and groove.

Bħala adottant bikri tal-teknoloġija ta' set tad-drum Sensory Percussion, Jaffe kien qed jespandi l-set tad-drum fi territorju soniku eċitanti. Waqt li l-prattika artistika tiegħu bl-użu ta' SP kienet qed tiżviluppa, hu beda jħoss li r-relazzjoni tiegħu mal-proċess kienet waslet għal mur. Wara li qabel uża s-sistema tas-sensur bħala mod biex jagħti u jmanipola samples (Giant Beat tal-2019 hija l-evidenza l-ewwel ta' dan il-proċess), Jaffe ħa reġistrazzjoni ta' Reduction of Man bħala mod biex jiġġieled lilu nnifsu u l-limitazzjonijiet tat-teknoloġija nascenti.

Stħarrija biex jippartecipa fil-programm tar-Residenza tal-Mużika Pioneer Works pprovdiet opportunità biex jgħaddi xahar, f'July 2021, ddedikat għal dawn il-għanijiet kreattivi. Max stieden il-plejer tat-trumpetta Chris Williams (HxH, Pink Siifu), il-gittarist Will Greene (Trigger), u l-bassista / keyboardist Jesse Heasly (Spirits Having Fun) għal serje ta' sessjonijiet tan-nucleu; l-ex Elder Ones bandmate saxophonist Matt Nelson (GRID, Flying Luttenbachers), il-plejer tat-sax tenor Nathaniel Morgan (Helado Negro) u multi-instrumentalist Lucia Vitkova lagħbu fis-sessjonijiet addizzjonali biex jimprovvisaw u jirreġistraw li kienet se ssir Reduction of Man. Jaffe kien jagħti "avveniment" bl-użu ta' Sensory Percussion li l-plejers kienu jirrispondu permezz ta' improvvisazzjoni. Jaffe kien imbagħad ipproċessa u manipula l-output tal-band fi żmien reale - jidrobba bil-idejn waħda, jikkompuni bl-oħra.

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.

Dan "bejn" jirrifletta ħafna l-ħajja ta' Jaffe. Twieled minn omm Koreana li trabbet f'Hong Kong u missier Lhudi, u trabba f'suburbju prevalentement abjad tal-Bay Area, Jaffe sabha diffiċli biex jħoss il-konnessjoni mal-kulturi minoritarji tal-ġenituri tiegħu. B'mod simili, fil-Bay Area, Jaffe assorbixxa sottokulturi mużikali kif kienu jistgħu: jazz, breakcore, hardcore punk, mużika elettronika sperimentali, kollha kienu lanċi formattivi għal-karriera mużikali tiegħu. Max iddramma fil-banda noise rock pointillist JOBS, bħala parti mill-Elder Ones ta' Amirtha Kidambi u bħala batterista dal-ħajja għall-artista EDM 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.