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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Book of Sound (2017)

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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Book of Sound (2017)

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Book of Sound (2017)
jazz, funk, brass | 51:52 min | WEB FLAC (tracks) | 260 MB
Label: Honest Jon's Records

The seven brothers embrace a spiritual jazz sound, sans percussion, on their first album since the group’s father, Philip Cohran, passed away in February 2017

“With its cathedral-like, richly resonant acoustics, the new Hypnotic Brass Ensemble album Book Of Sound is a brilliant expression of interplanetary principle. The album is by turns urgent and contemplative, funky and reflective, varied in its textures; but entirely of one piece. Underpinned by concepts of earth's place in the cosmos, held in place by meditation, swirling with notions of history, science, theology, ancestry, there is a rich conceptual brew here.

The album rings with what back in the 1950s the jazz critic Whitney Balliet called "the sound of surprise". Book Of Sound makes you believe again in the validity of "spiritual jazz". Talking to Cid, one of the Ensemble's two trombonists, one phrase recurs: "back to the beginning". "We wanted to go back to the beginning, when we were kids, real young, and our father would wake us up at 5AM to practice for two hours before breakfast."

One outcome – initially unplanned but subsequently embraced – is that unlike their two previous albums on Honest Jon's, this is an album without a drummer. "When we started, as Wolf Pack, just brothers on the street with our horns, there wasn't a kit in sight." Book Of Sound retains plenty of rhythmic heft, but the absence of a drummer opens up space for a notably varied instrumental palette. Acoustic guitar, piccolo, synthesizer, alto sax – all have their place on the album.

Most striking perhaps are the vocal lines that thread through the album and give it a palpable warmth. Sessions were recorded in Brooklyn and Chicago, and brilliantly mixed at Abel Garibaldi's studio in the Loop, and it's the Hypnotic's hometown that permeates. For Cid this is a deeply Chicago record: "It's got the vibe of the lake, the vibe of the prairies opening up to the west." It also has the vibe of those Sun Ra Arkestra albums recorded in Chicago in the 1950s, and – of course – the Phil Cohran albums from the 1960s.

It's Phil Cohran (the father of all seven members of the Ensemble and their first teacher, and not just in music) who is the album's guiding spirit. For Cid it's a major regret that, in the months before their father's death early in 2017, Phil was not well enough to play on the album. But Book Of Sound is a magnificent testament to their Cohran legacy”.

Tracklist:
01. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Lead the Way
02. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Purple Afternoon
03. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Kepra
04. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Morning Prayer
05. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Now
06. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Solstice
07. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Midnight
08. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Sri Neroti
09. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Heaven and Earth
10. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Synapsis
11. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Royalty

foobar2000 1.3.16 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2017-11-11 11:10:52

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Analyzed: Hypnotic Brass Ensemble / Book of Sound
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR8 -0.49 dB -9.56 dB 3:13 01-Lead the Way
DR11 -0.58 dB -13.38 dB 6:07 02-Purple Afternoon
DR8 -0.49 dB -9.78 dB 5:58 03-Kepra
DR8 -0.52 dB -9.01 dB 4:24 04-Morning Prayer
DR9 -0.49 dB -10.51 dB 6:19 05-Now
DR10 -0.51 dB -12.35 dB 4:15 06-Solstice
DR8 -0.51 dB -10.90 dB 4:57 07-Midnight
DR8 -0.49 dB -10.08 dB 4:06 08-Sri Neroti
DR9 -0.49 dB -10.85 dB 4:34 09-Heaven and Earth
DR9 -0.49 dB -11.36 dB 4:48 10-Synapsis
DR8 -0.50 dB -10.92 dB 3:11 11-Royalty
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Number of tracks: 11
Official DR value: DR9

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 710 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Track: 02. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Purple Afternoon
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Track: 04. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Morning Prayer
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Track: 03. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Kepra
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Track: 05. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Now
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Track: 06. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Solstice
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Track: 07. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Midnight
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Track: 08. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Sri Neroti
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Track: 09. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Heaven and Earth
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Track: 10. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Synapsis
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Track: 11. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Royalty
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