Pride, Mike From Bacteria To Boys

Betweenwhile

Label: Aum Fidelity Country: USA

"Mike Pride's From Bacteria To Boys features four of the most startling and beautiful new voices in modern jazz. They mesh the lines between forward-looking groove-based jazz, chant works, modern R&B (mainly R. Kelly) and 21st century classical music; with a singular intensity and center of focus. This is avant-garde soul music - the credo of AUM Fidelity - and we are very proud to present this major work. Betweenwhile is a bad-ass, beautiful and bountifully unique album.

"[This] is the flagship document of what these four musicians, as led by drummer/composer Pride, have summoned and made animate in the world over a highly concentrated period of tireless live performance and group refinement. Its title, semi-quoted from a line in the expository intermediary Chapter 12.5 of R. Kelly's Trapped In the Closet epic, alludes to the many-layered accruement between human beings operating together and towards collective goals in time/space. From Bacteria to Boys has performed their due diligence in understanding not only the rhythmic micro-realities of R&B, but its contentedly ecstatic spirit as well. It is a music indeed fully alive and committed to the continuance and elevation of love and happiness through all the means that jazz music can employ."-excerpted from the liner notes by Sam Mickens

"Since moving to NYC in 2000, Mike Pride has been supremely active adding his potent imprint to an unparalleled range of musical projects. He has performed and recorded throughout North America, Europe, Asia, & Australia with many of the world's most varied & important musicians, bands & composers including (short list here): Boredoms, Anthony Braxton, Califone, Eugene Chadbourne, Chinese pop-star Priscilla Chan, Nels Cline, Trevor Dunn, Milford Graves, Mary Halvorson, Curtis Hasselbring, Jon Irabagon, Vijay Iyer, Haino Keiji's Fushitsusha, George Lewis, Bill McHenry, MDC (Millions of Dead Cops), Tony Malaby, Ikue Mori, Butch Morris, Marc Ribot, Matana Roberts, Jamie Saft, Chris Speed, Jason Stein, Otomo Yoshihide & John Zorn.

Betweenwhile is Pride's first fully visioned and manifest jazz album as a leader. Once again: it is bad-ass, beautiful and bountifully unique. Listen and believe."-Aum Fidelity