VIBRATION BLACK FINGER
CAN YOU SEE WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY

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JMANLP 121

JAZZMAN
UKLP 2020

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

TRACKLIST
A1 Empty Streets
A2 Adrianna
A3 Gutkind's Dream
A4 Acting For Liberation (Part I)
A5 Law Of The Universe
A6 Can You See What I'm Trying To Say
B1 Acting For Liberation (Part II)
B2 Persia And Cornelius
B3 The Glory
B4 Soul FireB5 Twelve Wire Bird
B6 Only In A Dream

ABOUT
Lascelle ‘Lascelles’ Gordon - the driving force behind Vibration Black Finger – astonishes us yet again with a magnificent second album. Once more his inspiration is drawn from the obscure spiritual jazz collectives of the 1970s where he employs a vast array of like-minded collaborators to create a listening experience infused with an ever-present undercurrent of personal expression and cultural empowerment that’s as enriched with ideas as it is progressive in its form.
Having earned his chops as founding member of the Brand New Heavies, Campag Velocet and Heliocentric World, Lascelle’s latest album Can You See What I’m Trying to Say bursts with energy and vivid contrasts, flowing effortlessly between beat-laden grooves, oscillating improvisations, soulful recitations, audio verité and moody atmospherics. The album drops like a post-hip-hop reimagining of foundational genres, with a prayer to the future.
‘Can You See What I’m Trying to Say’ is a quote from Marion Brown, the great alto saxophonist’ explains Gordon. ‘‘The album was put together over the last three years, not in the conventional way of going into the recording studio with musicians, but starting from ideas I had on various formats (cassettes, mini disc, DATs &reel to reel). I also used field recordings. I did a lot of home recording with long time musical friends Ben Cowen & Diana Gutkind, some of them going back 20 years. The voices of my nieces (heard on Law of the Universe) were recorded 25 years ago. ‘Only in a Dream’ and ‘Empty Streets’ are the only songs that were recorded live in the studio.‘‘
’‘I was blown away by the New Life Trio ‘Empty Streets’ (from 1978) and was fascinated by the vocals’’ continues Lascelles. ‘‘I always thought it would be great to cover this tune’‘. Such is the power of this song, it’s used to open the album, with vocalist Ebony Rose turning in a thoroughly haunting vocal performance. While not a concept album as such, Lascelles has nonetheless conceived and presented Can You See What I’m Trying to Say to be heard as a complete listening experience, with each track blending into the next, resulting in a seamless expression of music.
Following ‘Empty Streets’, some instrumental interludes segue into a dimensional drift of beats, space synths, horns, and electronics; there’s a vocal reprise of ‘Acting For Liberation’, sung with gusto by Maggie Nichols, and then there’s the album’s momentous finale, ‘Only In A Dream’, which takes off as an ominous drone before a delicious bassline from the late Ken Kambayashi transforms it into an intense, soaring epic which finally descends onto another world.
In a career spanning several decades, Lascelle Gordon remains an omnivorous musical force, whether as DJ, collaborator or radio broadcaster. As amply demonstrated on Can You See What I’m Trying to Say, he refuses to rest on his laurels and continues to impress with music that is as rich, vital, and contemporary as anything he’s done before, covering an incredible amount of musical ground in the process.
‘‘As always I’ve made a conscious move towards making deep, heavy music‘’ he says, ‘‘Music without meaning seems pointless.’‘

STYLE
  • Jazz
  • Spiritual Jazz
  • Soul Jazz
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