ARTIST: Jerry Leake
TITLE: Cubist
LABEL: Rhombus Publishing
GENRE: Fusion
BITRATE: 203kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 1h 18min total
RELEASE DATE: 2010-00-00
RIP DATE: 2010-02-17
Track List:
1. Aldebaran 6:16
2. Caldera 4:51
3. Zulugu 6:08
4. Plan 9 5:35
5. Freehand 1:59
6. Cubist 5:53
7. No Yella Bo 5:25
8. In From The Cold 5:00
9. Smoke 5:54
10.Geo 5:19
11.Convex 0:51
12.Nu Atsia 6:14
13.Chrysalis 6:23
14.Gahudo 5:18
15.Middle Ground 2:57
16.Eclipse 4:14
Contemporary world music featuring unique shapes, angles, and perspectives of
tradition, composition, and arrangement.
Jerry LeakeÆs Cubist represents a groundbreaking direction in contemporary
music, and additionally for that matter, ancient music. Leake, a dedicated
researcher and student of African and Indian musical traditions, has been
exploring for quite some time the possibilities of co-mingling those ancient
traditions with modern influences of groove, ambient, rock, jazz, and more. This
of course has been attempted many times before. The danger is that the result
ends up as a fusing of superficial (surface) elements of musical styles. What
sets Cubist apart is the depth of dedication and commitment to all of these
disciplines represented not just in Leake himself, but in all of his
co-conspirators on this project. What we have here is not so much a mixture of
chemicals, but rather an entirely new compound, something that will take
repeated listening to grasp, and a clear indication of the possibilities of
ôfusionö and ôworldö music in its best sense.