{"id":7133,"date":"2024-08-26T17:44:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T17:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?page_id=7133"},"modified":"2024-10-25T16:51:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T16:51:19","slug":"body-me%cf%80a-prayer-in-dub","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?page_id=7133","title":{"rendered":"Body Me\u03c0a &#8211; Prayer in Dub"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #333333;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?attachment_id=7134\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7134\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7134\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/HAUSMO145-Body-Meta-Prayer-in-Dub-FINAL-DIGI-COVER-MAX-RES-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/HAUSMO145-Body-Meta-Prayer-in-Dub-FINAL-DIGI-COVER-MAX-RES-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/HAUSMO145-Body-Meta-Prayer-in-Dub-FINAL-DIGI-COVER-MAX-RES-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a>To be released on LP, CD, and digitally on October 25th, 2024. LP available on clear or black vinyl from Hausu Mountain, and on metallic silver vinyl at stores only. CD packaged in a slim digipak. This is the catalog page with album information and artwork. To purchase, head to our <a href=\"http:\/\/hausumountain.bandcamp.com\/\">Bandcamp page<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2508967721\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/bodymetaband.bandcamp.com\/album\/prayer-in-dub\">Prayer in Dub by Body Me\u03c0a<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h5>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Body Me\u03c0a <\/b>is the New York-based quartet of <b>Greg Fox<\/b> (drums), <b>Sasha Frere-Jones <\/b>(guitar), <b>Melvin Gibbs<\/b> (bass), and <b>Grey McMurray<\/b> (guitar). As luminaries in the intersecting traditions of improvised music, rock, jazz, fusion, and contemporary classical music, the four artists have each spent decades building diverse practices that extend beyond sound into multiple disciplines.<b> <i>Prayer in Dub<\/i><\/b>, their second release on Hausu Mountain, follows the band\u2019s 2020 album <b><i>The Work Is Slow<\/i><\/b>. While <b>Body Me\u03c0a <\/b>recorded much of <b><i>Prayer in Dub<\/i><\/b> within the same period that followed their formation and first LP\u2019s creation in 2020-2021, the album presents a band whose collective intuition as instrumentalists and live-in-the-room songwriters has deepened with each take that they put to tape. Focused on textural and rhythmic detail, repetition and variation of central motifs, and slowly evolving sessions that find room for improvisation, the quartet hesitate to pin down their amorphous output any further than the broad scope of what they describe as \u201cNew York City body music.\u201d Their work engages with the physicality of \u201crock band\u201d performance while stretching that idiom to its breaking point, all while evoking the environment that brought it to life: the city of New York in all its multitudes, where all four band members grew up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Prayer in Dub<\/i><\/b> finds <b>Body Me\u03c0a<\/b> taking up new experiments with song structure and atmosphere. While <b><i>The Work Is Slow<\/i><\/b> presented a band geared towards lengthy sessions that regularly passed the ten minute mark, patiently riding out grooves and settling into trance-like passages of recursion,<i> <\/i><b><i>Prayer in Dub <\/i><\/b>fans out into a wide menu of both longer and more concise pieces that suggest deliberate shifts in energy and emotional resonance. The album presents a thrilling contrast between storms of precise rhythmic interplay and slowly expanding fields of multi-guitar and bass texture, alternately pushing the narrative toward explosive peaks of intensity and dipping into ambient expanses. Contemplative guitar lines, both bone dry and effected into total abstraction, ripple together over dub-indebted rhythm section grooves before shifting the dial towards beatific twang. Knotty distorted solos surge out of the fray over networks of arpeggios and drum fills. To a greater extent than on their previous recordings, <b>Body Me\u03c0a<\/b> explores the potential of diverse mixing strategies and contrasting recording fidelities, reaching us in moments with the crystalline clarity of a meticulously captured rock ensemble and at other times crackling with the light fuzz and room tone artifacts of a more informal recording.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">On <b><i>Prayer in Dub<\/i><\/b>, <b>Body Me\u03c0a<\/b> pursues a strain of euphoria charged with elegiac grandeur and the looming potential to crumble at any moment under the psychic weight of confusion. It speaks to the band\u2019s goals and general outlook that chaos never completely consumes their sessions. Even at their most overwhelming, they\u2019re working through their art as a shared consciousness that desires order, that understands the visceral power of rhythm and harmony as uniting forces, that seeks to extract new feelings from the tradition of four people playing rock instruments in a room together. The band channels the kinetic energy of a \u201csupergroup\u201d of veteran musicians into communal works that evolve beyond their creators\u2019 extensive pedigrees into new forms both intimate in sentiment and majestic in scope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">It would require an entire additional bio to even scratch the surface of <b>Greg Fox<\/b>\u2019s catalog as a drummer and synthesist\/electronic producer, both solo and in innumerable bands and collaborations. His most recent solo LPs appeared on <b>RVNG Intl.<\/b>, and the last few years have found him performing and recording with a wide roster of artists including <b>Colin Stetson<\/b>, <b>Ka Baird<\/b>, <b>Marijuana Deathsquads, Kristin Hayter (Lingua Ignota), Marina Rosenfeld<\/b>, <b>Trevor Dunn and Sally Gates<\/b>, <b>John Colpitts<\/b>, <b>Jerusalem in My Heart<\/b>, and <b>Owen Pallett<\/b>. Fox works as a music teacher and certified professional coach, channeling his own learning from mentors such as <b>Milford Graves<\/b> and <b>Marvin \u201cBugalu\u201d Smith<\/b> into \u201chelp[ing] people find their rhythms, in behavior, mind, and spirit.\u201d Fox runs <b>Studio Te<\/b> in Brooklyn, where he recorded <b>Body Me\u03c0a<\/b>\u2019s music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Sasha Frere-Jones<\/b> founded the band <b>Ui<\/b> in the early 90s in New York. The band built a genre-shattering catalog that collided elements of funk, rock, dub, and electronic arrangement \u2014 including collaborations with <strong>Stereolab<\/strong> under the moniker <b>Uilab<\/b>. <b>Ui <\/b>performed their last show in 2022 at Public Records in New York after reuniting for concerts associated with the storied label <b>Numero Group <\/b>(who are currently reissuing the band\u2019s entire catalog). Frere-Jones put out a split album with <b>Loren Mazzacane Connors<\/b> and has released solo music under the name <b>Calvinist<\/b>, working with engineer <b>Ben Kane<\/b> (<b>D\u2019Angelo<\/b>). His work as a musician stands alongside an extensive career as a writer. His acclaimed memoir<b> <i>Earlier<\/i><\/b> was published by <b>Semiotext(e)<\/b> in 2023, and his writing has appeared in <strong>Bookforum<\/strong>, <strong>The Nation<\/strong>, <strong>4Columns<\/strong>, <strong>Metrograph<\/strong>, <strong>Parapraxis<\/strong>, <strong>New York Review of Architecture<\/strong>, and <strong>The New Yorker<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Grammy-nominated bassist <b>Melvin Gibbs<\/b> has a beyond-diverse background in jazz, rock, punk, and freeform experimentalism \u2014 anchored by mentors including <b>Ornette Coleman<\/b> and <b>Gil Evans<\/b>, encompassing work with <b>Arto Lindsay,<\/b> <b>dead prez<\/b>, <b>Sonny Sharrock<\/b>, and the<b> Zig Zag Power Trio<\/b> alongside <b>Vernon Reid<\/b> and <b>Will<\/b> <b>Calhoun<\/b> of the band<b> Living Colour<\/b>, stints in <b>Defunkt<\/b> and<b> the Rollins Band<\/b>, and collaborations including <b>Power Tools<\/b> alongside <b>Bill Frisell <\/b>and <b>Ronald Shannon Jackson<\/b> and the cooperative <b>Harriet Tubman<\/b>. Within the last few years, Gibbs released solo works on<b> Editions Mego<\/b> and <b>Northern Spy,<\/b> and performed in collaboration with <b>Marisa Monte<\/b>, <b>Elliot Sharp<\/b> and <b>Don McKenzie <\/b>(as <b>Bootstrappers<\/b>), <b>Wadada Leo Smith, <\/b>and with theoretical physicist <b>Dr. Stephon Alexander <\/b>as <b>God Particle<\/b>. He is currently writing a book entitled <b><i>The Science of Black Music <\/i><\/b>that will be published by<strong> Basic Books<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A fixture of the intertwined experimental scenes of New York City, <b>Grey McMurray<\/b> has worked with artists including <b>Gil-Scott Heron, Meshell Ndegeocello, Tyondai Braxton, Alarm Will Sound, Du Yun, Beth Orton, Colin Stetson, Sam Amidon, Ali Sethi, John Cale, Laraaji<\/b>, and <b>S\u014d Percussion<\/b>, with whom he composed a full-length album in 2012. He released his first solo record, <b><i>Stay Up<\/i><\/b>, on <b>Shahzad Ismaily<\/b>\u2019s <b>Figureight Records<\/b> in 2019 and will be releasing a solo EP in fall 2024. McMurray\u2019s ever-expanding practice has recently included performances at Coachella with <b>Ali Sethi<\/b>, at Carnegie Hall in various contexts, and in <b>John Cale<\/b>\u2019s ensemble on <b><i>Late Night With Jimmy Fallon<\/i><\/b>. He recently produced <b>Caleb Burhans<\/b>\u2019s acclaimed <i>Past Lives<\/i> album and co-produced <b>Slowspin<\/b>\u2019s <i>Talisman<\/i> album. His collaborative trio Student Body with Caroline Davis and Qasim Naqvi will release their first album in the fall of 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Prayer In Dub<\/i> <\/b>was produced and mixed by <b>Matt Mehlan<\/b>. Mehlan runs the mixing \/ mastering \/ audiovisual production suite <b>STUUDIO<\/b>, makes music as <b>Skeletons<\/b>, and runs the label <b>Shinkoyo \/ Artist Pool<\/b>. He has mixed and\/or mastered releases by artists including <b>Anthony Braxton<\/b>, <b>Yusef Lateef<\/b>, <b>Joe McPhee<\/b>, and <b>Zeena Parkins<\/b>. He teaches at <b>The Eugene Lang College at New School <\/b>and has taught at <b>School of the Art Institute of Chicago<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?attachment_id=7137\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7137\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7137 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/HAUSMO145-Body-Meta-Prayer-in-Dub-LP-SLEEVE-BACK-WITH-SPINE-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/HAUSMO145-Body-Meta-Prayer-in-Dub-LP-SLEEVE-BACK-WITH-SPINE-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/HAUSMO145-Body-Meta-Prayer-in-Dub-LP-SLEEVE-BACK-WITH-SPINE-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?attachment_id=7124\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7124\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7124\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Body-Me\u03c0a-by-Daniel-Efram-07780_061424_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?attachment_id=7143\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7143\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7143\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/LP-black-vinyl-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/LP-black-vinyl-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/LP-black-vinyl-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/LP-black-vinyl-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/LP-black-vinyl-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/LP-black-vinyl-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/LP-black-vinyl-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/LP-black-vinyl-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be released on LP, CD, and digitally on October 25th, 2024. 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