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Have It Tall b​/​w Daily Gates

by Afrikan Sciences

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HAVE IT TALL 05:37
2.
DAILY GATES 10:10

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Afrikan Sciences hold time in one hand and space in the other. This is his first offering for the ESP Institute. Side A’s 'Have It Tall' boasts the characteristics of an improvised jam session. Tipped-off in a theme of rapid-fire percussion and an innocent chord progression, each instrument ventures into its own loosely carved space, allowing squelching sporatic bursts of bassline, rhodes piano twinkles and a frenetic funky drummer pattern that haphazardly cuts in and out, to coexist without ever stepping on one another’s toes. The production is simultaneously aggressive and mesmerizing, bright cracking punctuations alternate with a fat rolling bottom end, all elements dry and present. On side B’s 'Daily Gates', things are a little slower to get rolling. Currents of swirling synth chords carry over from the previous side, but here we’re dragged across a long and thumping upright bass intro. The fabric of instrumentation casually weaves itself over a 5 minutes of liberally syncopated rimshots, hi-hats and snaps, before a guitar interjects with a triumphant and otherworldly melody, a brief shot of glowing optimism before returning us to a heavy cosmic slop. These two songs have built the end into the beginning.

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released February 28, 2020

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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.
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