Hausu Mountain proudly presents Melvin Gibbs’s Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2. The avant-jazz odyssey finds him operating in the many-tendriled roles of composer, arranger, collagist, performer, and bandleader — all while merging together recordings that span two decades, featuring an interdisciplinary array of collaborators, into a composite whose overflowing amalgam of ideas transcend genre and categorization. The album draws primary inspiration from the production of Miles Davis and Teo Macero on Davis’s 70s fusion output, with Gibbs timing his LP’s release to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Davis’s landmark Agharta.

Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 lands on October 14 on LP (clear and black), CD, digitally, and a few merch options with download code. First single “Felonious Monk” kicks off the album with a burst of percussive energy that threads in Pete Cosey’s guitar, John Medeski’s organ, Chris Williams’s trumpet, & more. Streaming on Bandcamp & beyond:

Grammy-nominated composer / producer / bassist Melvin Gibbs has a beyond-diverse background in jazz, rock, punk, and freeform experimentalism — anchored by mentors including Ornette Coleman and Gil Evans, encompassing work with Arto Lindsay, dead prez, and Sonny Sharrock, stints in Defunkt and the Rollins Band, and collaborations in ensembles including Power Tools alongside Bill Frisell and Ronald Shannon Jackson and the cooperative Harriet Tubman. Within the last few years, Gibbs released solo works on Editions Mego and Northern Spy. Gibbs plays bass in the band Body Meπa, whose two albums to date – 2021’s The Work Is Slow (HAUSMO120) and 2024’s Prayer in Dub (HAUSMO145) – were released by Hausu Mountain.