Sound People – Teatime (CD)

Johnson, who records new bass music as GULLS for his Boomarmnation label, met Dickow (aka Strategy) through Johnson’s membership in the Evolutionary Jass Band, whose first album was released on Dickow’s label Community Library. Teatime reveals their immediate comfort with music that is improvised completely fresh – the recordings were recorded live in single takes – and with a no-rules approach to their instrumentation – live-processed hand percussion, analogue percussion synthesizers and noise makers (Dickow) and live processed trumpet, mini keyboards, mbira, and tape echos (Johnson).

The resulting electric soup is a cascade of echoes and sonic silhouettes, gestures in search of a dubbed out dream space in between drum velocity, serene trumpets, and dub’s open spaces. Pop it up in your headphones and fire up a hot cup of oolong or pu erh for maximum effects.