OTHER ONE

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Label
PI RECORDINGS
Release Date
May 26, 2023
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    Featuring
    • PERFORMER
      HENRY THREADGILL ENSEMBLE
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 26, 2023
    • UPC
      808713009729
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PIRC97.2
    • LABEL
      PI RECORDINGS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

The Other One, the latest from Henry Threadgill, is the musical component of a large multimedia work performed and recorded live at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, New York in 2022. The recording is comprised of a three-movement composition entitled "Of Valence," which was inspired by the percussionist and theorist Milford Graves, in particular, his integration of the human heartbeat into his musical works, and is performed by a 12-piece ensemble. All the hallmarks of Threadgill's music are here: unpredictable forms, unusual instrumental combinations that create surprising timbres, percolating rhythms, interwoven melodic strains, and masterful interlacing of composition with improvisation. The New York Times described the performance as possessing "a galvanic sense of swing," and "in lock-step with his every surprise rhythmic feint - producing an obliquely danceable, straightforwardly joyous Threadgillian energy." There is nothing else like it.