{"id":7459,"date":"2025-08-08T16:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?p=7459"},"modified":"2025-08-08T16:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:30:17","slug":"announcing-melvin-gibbs-amasia-anamibia-sessions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?p=7459","title":{"rendered":"announcing: Melvin Gibbs &#8211; Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Hausu Mountain proudly presents <strong>Melvin Gibbs<\/strong>\u2019s <em><strong>Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2.<\/strong><\/em> The avant-jazz odyssey finds him operating in the many-tendriled roles of composer, arranger, collagist, performer, and bandleader \u2014 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\u2019s 70s fusion output, with Gibbs timing his LP\u2019s release to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Davis\u2019s landmark <em>Agharta<\/em>.<\/h5>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h5><em><strong>Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2<\/strong><\/em> lands on October 14 on LP (clear and black), CD, digitally, and a few merch options with download code. First single \u201cFelonious Monk\u201d kicks off the album with a burst of percussive energy that threads in <strong>Pete Cosey<\/strong>\u2019s guitar, <strong>John Medeski<\/strong>\u2019s organ, <strong>Chris Williams<\/strong>\u2019s trumpet, &amp; more. Streaming on Bandcamp &amp; beyond:<\/h5>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1882532469\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/music.melvin-gibbs.com\/album\/amasia-anamibia-sessions-2\">Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 by Melvin Gibbs<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h5>Grammy-nominated composer \/ producer \/ bassist <strong>Melvin Gibbs<\/strong> has a beyond-diverse background in jazz, rock, punk, and freeform experimentalism \u2014 anchored by mentors including <strong>Ornette Coleman<\/strong> and <strong>Gil Evans<\/strong>, encompassing work with <strong>Arto Lindsay<\/strong>, <strong>dead prez<\/strong>, and <strong>Sonny Sharrock<\/strong>, stints in <strong>Defunkt<\/strong> and the <strong>Rollins Band<\/strong>, and collaborations in ensembles including <strong>Power Tools<\/strong> alongside <strong>Bill Frisell<\/strong> and <strong>Ronald Shannon Jackson<\/strong> and the cooperative <strong>Harriet Tubman<\/strong>. Within the last few years, Gibbs released solo works on <strong>Editions Mego<\/strong> and <strong>Northern Spy<\/strong>. Gibbs plays bass in the band <strong>Body Me\u03c0a<\/strong>, whose two albums to date \u2013 2021\u2019s <em>The Work Is Slow<\/em> (HAUSMO120) and 2024\u2019s <em>Prayer in Dub<\/em> (HAUSMO145) \u2013 were released by Hausu Mountain.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hausu Mountain proudly presents Melvin Gibbs\u2019s Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2. The avant-jazz odyssey finds him operating in the many-tendriled roles of composer, arranger, collagist, performer, and bandleader \u2014 all while merging together recordings that span two decades, featuring an interdisciplinary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?p=7459\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7462,"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459\/revisions\/7462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}