Artist.......: Lloyd Miller & the Heliocentrics
Album........: Lloyd Miller & the Heliocentrics
Label........: Strut
Genre........: Jazz
Catnr........: STRUT 60CD
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Jul-24-2010
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.strut-records.com/
track title time
01. Electricone 03:42
02. Nava 04:55
03. Pari Ruu 04:15
04. Salendro 02:08
05. Spirit Jazz 06:55
06. Modality 03:19
07. Rain Dance 03:22
08. Lloyd Lets Loose 03:31
09. Bali Bronze 06:15
10. Latin 03:16
11. Charhargah 04:07
12. Sunda Sunset 05:39
Runtime 51:24 min
Size 52,4 MB
Release Notes:
Following their award-winning collaboration with
Ethio jazz Godfather Mulatu Astatke (Mojo magazine
Top 50 of the year 2009, Sunday Times World Music
Album of the year), pioneering UK collective The
Heliocentrics resurfaces alongside another
fascinating jazz enigma, ethno-musicologist, jazz
maestro and multi-instrumentalist, Lloyd Miller.
Learning various instruments and immersing himself
in New Orleans jazz through his father, a
professional clarinet player, Lloyd Miller first
trained himself in the styles of George Lewis and
Jimmy Giuffre and cut his first Dixieland jazz 78
rpm record in 1950. During the late æ50s, his
father landed a job in Iran and Miller began to
develop a lifelong interest in Persian and Eastern
music forms, learning to play a vast array of
traditional ethnic instruments from across Asia and
the Middle East.
He toured Europe heavily, basing himself in
Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, Germany (where he
played with Eddie Harris and Don Ellis) and, most
famously, in Paris where he worked with oddball
bandleader Jef Gilson, a phenomenon in French jazz
during the early æ60s. Miller returned to the
Middle East during the æ70s, landing his own TV
show on NIRTV in Tehran under the name Kurosh Ali
Khan. His show became a national fixture and ran
for seven years.
Miller has since been a vocal ambassador for
preserving the traditions of many forms of Eastern
music. In recent years, his mid-æ60s album
æOriental JazzÆ has become a collectorÆs favourite
and the UKÆs Jazzman label have issued a
compilation, æA Lifetime In Oriental JazzÆ,
covering work from across his career. The renewed
interest in his music has spawned this new
collaboration with The Heliocentrics, a freeform
mix of Eastern arrangements, jazz and angular
psychedelics and represents the HeliocentricsÆ most
accomplished work to date. Tracks include the
reflective, yearning æSpirit JazzÆ, a new version
of Miller classic æMassomÆ and the cinematic
æElectriconeÆ.