Sabir Mateen - Survival Situation '2020

Tracks list

Iconic downtown sax player Sabir Mateen, together with up-and-coming Texan
clarinetist Patrick Holmes and drum wiz Federico Ughi, celebrate the cosmic
dimensions of creative music via their new album Survival Situation.
The three musicians have collaborated in the past, in New York, in different
projects but never as a trio. This time they met in a recording studio in
Tuscany, Italy, not far from where Sabir Mateen has been living for the last few
years. They freely improvised, then took the tapes back to the studio and
created this album, strongly influenced by Sun Ra, with whom Mateen played
during various times throughout the ’80s until 1991. The other-worldly
elements of the Arkestra’s universe are found here through the way Mateen
uses vocals and plays keyboard.
Sabir Mateen also lists as major influences his work with Horace Tapscott from
1977 to 1981, where and when he grew to be the legendary player that we know and
his association with Cecil Taylor’s large ensemble from 2002-2005. 
Listen to the Survival Situation album, also available in limited edition vinyl,
to directly connect to a legacy of magic in sound, as it projects towards the
future of creative music.

Sabir Mateen: saxophones, clarinets, flute, farfisa Matador, voice
Patrick Holmes - clarinet
Federico Ughi - drums

Tracklist:
1.01 - Sabir Mateen - Freedom of Soul (14:26)
1.02 - Sabir Mateen - Souls (4:23)
1.03 - Sabir Mateen - Layers of Sound (6:26)
1.04 - Sabir Mateen - Clarifying (13:39)
1.05 - Sabir Mateen - You Can’t Touch That Because It Didn’t Hurt
- Bonus Track (4:54)

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