Circuitous, by Afrikan Sciences

Circuitous

by Afrikan Sciences

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Gunther Jacobi I love the multitudes of rhythms, the dark fused with the light, the unpredictability and ultimate originality. Favorite track: dbc.

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1.	Two in the Chamber 04:45	buy track
2.	reddin off 04:32	buy track
3.	transient Authority 03:04	buy track
4.	Evolved in twists 06:28	buy track
5.	Circuitous 05:34	buy track
6.	kae 06:03	buy track
7.	feel 07:38	buy track
8.	swash 04:06	buy track
9.	the image 08:28	buy track
10.	group home reality 04:04	buy track
11.	alibi II 04:01	buy track
12.	dbc 05:29	buy track
13.	I'm asking you KB 07:35	buy track
14.	tell me who like that(bedside manner) 06:45	buy track

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Peerless rhythmist and sonic explorer Afrikan Sciences makes his PAN debut with ‘Circuitous,’ the third full-length, freeform offering from the New York-based artist.

At the nexus of Afrofuturism, science fiction, transcendental free jazz, and future hip hop, this new work from Eric Douglas Porter casts itself and its creator in a liminal zone most recognizably charted by astral traveler Sun Ra. ‘Circuitous’ follows from nearly a decade of releases for Deepblak —the Oakland-rooted imprint of frequent collaborator Aybee— and shares common blood with both the elevated consciousness of late ’80s club culture and contemporary West Coast beat scene.

Built around Porter’s signature polyrhythms and complex melodies, the unorthodox agility demonstrated throughout the album’s fourteen tracks reflect his long history of live, improvised sets combining multiple turntables, upright bass, and a command center of digital tablets and controllers. Each track maps the artist’s own movements, tracing paths of flight, highway trajectories through tunnels and over bridges, and rides through rough and gated neighborhoods. If familiar on the surface, deeper or repeated listenings to ‘Circuitous’ reveal the dynamic multiplicity embodied within.

‘Circuitous’ is a free and unbound body of work—one that defies easy classification yet translates fluidly across multiple environments—compiled over double LP in order to fully realize the scope of Afrikan Science’s sonic palette.

The album is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, pressed on a double 140g vinyl & CD, featuring artwork by Louis Reith & Bill Kouligas.

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released November 12, 2014

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Afrikan Sciences New York, New York

Eric Douglas Porter is one of the most
expansive and intensive musical torch bearers of modern
experimental composition. A self taught multi-instrumentalist and a true outsider, he challenging the
canon and the limitations of musical expression through his
complex yet mind opening rhythmical and sonic woven formations. ... more

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