:: Announcing :: Making Colors (AKP047), a cross section of avant-garde, ambient, electronic, post-hardcore, and free jazz from the experimental music trio of Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe, and Patrick Shiroishi out digitally and on limited run LP April 24th.
The first single "FRACTAL HASH" is out today.
Making Colors is a carousel of hypnotic rhythms swung into avant-garde jazz, pairing fragile melodic movements with maximalist fervor. While lengthy stretches of the record are decidedly mellow - soft cymbal hits, a cooing sax, gentle guitar work - the record also contains a rollicking twin of free expression juxtaposed throughout.
Movements gather texture; melodies yearn from Harrington’s guitar and find their companions in electronic sputters filling the cracks in Jaffe’s drum kit; Shiroishi’s magisterial sax passionately cries out and whispers in coded bits and bytes; the alchemy of this trio bends time to create a new musical language.
In their ever-evolving performances, the overlapping timelines of each musician build into a dense and kinetic chorus that retains its nuance as it grows in immensity (the editing and mix was done by Jaffe and the mastering by Harrington, and many of the bold musical swings that set Making Colors apart from its predecessor take place in these post-production realms, where things like nuance and immensity are truly determined for the listener).