ファンク、ジャズ、ワールドからクラウトロックまで飲み込んだ現シーンの頂点に立つ唯一無二のサウンドスケープ!Malcolm Catto(ドラム)&Jake Ferguson(ベース)主宰:Heliocentirics!超待望の新作アルバムがなんとMadlibのレーベルからリリース!!
MadlibやDJ Shadow、そしてQuantic、Mulatu、Melvin Van Peebls、Lloys Millerとのコラボを経て更に高みへと上る弧高のサウンドスケープ!ジャンルの垣根を越えて世界中のコアな音楽ファンから絶大な人気を誇るエクスパリメンタル・ファンク・バンド:Heliocentrics。

James BrownからSun Ra,David Axelrod、更にはEnnio Morricone,Pierre Henry等からインスピレーションを受けて独自の世界観を構築してきた現行最高峰のファンクバンド。2007年のデビューアルバム「OutThere」で全世界の音楽ファンの度肝を抜き、MadlibやDJ Shadow、Quantic、そしてエチオピアの巨匠:Mulatoやエスニック・ジャズ・レジェンド:Lloyd Miller等とのコラボを経て常に話題作を発表してきた彼ら。更なる高みを見据えて完成した新作アルバムがなんとMadlibのレーベル、Madlib Invazionから登場!ファンク、ジャズからワールド、そしてヒップホップ、エレクトロニカ、クラウトロックまでも飲み込んだ壮大なサウンドスケープ!重量級のグルーヴ、生音と電子音が危ういバランスで生み出す極上のサイケデリア!現行のどのバンドとも完全にレベルが違うこの世界観とクオリティ!

発売・販売元 提供資料 （2020/01/22）

Its been nearly three years since Londons Heliocentrics issued 2017s mind-blowing one-two punch of A World of Masks and their soundtrack for The Sunshine Makers. Drummer Malcolm Catto and bassist Jake Ferguson, the bands producers, reached a new plateau with those releases. They forged an aesthetic that explored numerous Indo-Asian traditions, library music, fractured 70s funk, film scores, beat jazz, and more, and applied them as carefully woven sonic experiments. They realized long ago that the bands restlessness is their M.O. Here, theyve managed to deliver a rainbow stew of hybridized genres, production techniques, subtle but effective sound effects, and massive grooves. The Infinity of Now is the Heliocentrics debut offering for Madlibs Madlib Invazion label. Vocalist Barbora Patkova returns to the fold as a full member. She appears on most of the album, including the sets first mind-melting single Burning Wooden Ship. Paced by Cattos funky breakbeat shuffle, reverb, analog synth blips, Dan Smiths open-tuned modal guitars, and a Krautrock bassline, these traits commingle in a droning melody before the instruments clash amid a dubwise mix, as Patkova effortlessly croons through the middle. Venom is a snaky melody languidly framed by the rhythm section, bluesy distorted guitar, telegraph-key Farfisa organ, and Patkovas nearly June Tyson-esque vocal that transforms itself into something regal in the bridge. At the midway point, the track breaks wide open as the quartet reference and challenge one another as broken beat funk meets a nocturnal psychedelia. Elephant Walk features saxophonists Jason Yarde (baritone) and Colin Webster (alto) blowing free into a hypnotic, circular drumnbass vamp and acid-drenched organ, increasing the intensity until it fades. The spiky Afro-beat in Hanging by a Thread melds Afro-Latin drums and spiraling psych-blues guitar while a fractured funk bassline chugs along to a shimmering, steamy organ pulse. People Wake Up, the nearly ten-minute closer, is the most tripped-out thing here. A fuzzy Indian banjo (courtesy of Jack Yglesias) Keith Levene-esque snaky electric guitar (circa PiLs Metal Box era), a sparse doomy, dub bassline, sirens, flute, Raven Bushs strings, and Patkovas airy vocal all execute a ghostly melody that refuses to be anchored. It hovers, floats, mutters, stutters, and purrs. As the band strips it down to nothing, it re-emerges on the other side as a mutant jazz-funk jam messing with time and space. Amid drones, wafting sound effects (Sylvia Halletts hurdy-gurdy and sarangi among them) and broken beats, it ratchets up the intensity. A droning circular bassline frames the psych effects to usher in a circular rhythmic vamp that dissembles itself amid sawing strings, steely distortion, and industrial feedback, engaging in modal interplay that radically but seamlessly reshapes the bands process and force until all the music has left to do is fade abruptly. The Heliocentrics multivalently textured sound is by now a trademark signature. Infinity of Now is more adventurous, disciplined, and focused than any of their previous outings. Its dark and murky sonic vision is at once completely out of step with everything else, as well as miles ahead of it. ~ Thom Jurek

Rovi