Sound Ancestors

話題沸騰、マッドリブとフォー・テットのコラボ・アルバムが登場!

マッドリブ×キエラン・ヘブデン AKA フォー・テット!!!!!
USヒップホップとUKエレクトロニック、二人の鬼才が化学反応を起こして生まれたまさに奇跡の一枚!かねてから話題となっていた今年一番の注目プロジェクトが遂に登場!
Madvillain、Jaylibに続くコラボ、永遠のマスターピース・アルバムとなること必至!

2005年の「Madvillain Four Tet Remixes」から交流を続けてきたマッドリブとキエラン・ヘブデン(フォー・テット)。マッドリブの多様なサウンドにシンパシーを感じアルバムとしてアレンジしてみたいというキエランのアイデアからこの奇跡の異ジャンル・コラボが実現!数年をかけてマッドリブのトラックやループ、実験的アイデアをキエランがエディット、マニピュレート、コンバインし何百ものビートをアレンジして作り込まれた本作。ヒップホップのビートを軸にロックからフォーク、ダブ、アンビエント、ジャズ、ワールドなど多彩なジャンルを縦横無尽に駆け抜け二人のサウンドへと昇華したとてつもないサウンドスケープ!どこで切ってもマッドリブ、そしてフォー・テットを絶妙なバランスで感じ取れる凄まじいコラボ作品!間違いなく今年一番の作品と断言します!

Madlibs Sound Ancestors was assembled over the course of several years, as the visionary producer sent hundreds of unfinished beats and studio sessions to longtime friend Kieran Hebden (Four Tet), who edited and arranged them into an album meant as a stand-alone, start-to-finish listening experience. Though billed as a Madlib solo album, Hebdens sonic fingerprints are all over it, and its sometimes reminiscent of downtempo Four Tet as well as the freewheeling collage styles of the Madlib Medicine Show, Beat Konducta, and Rock Konducta releases. Instead of focusing on a certain genre, location, or era, Sound Ancestors reflects the producers wide-ranging influences, just as comfortably pulling from post-punk and psych-rock as from fusion and Brazilian jazz. The album similarly darts between different moods and atmospheres. Road of the Lonely Ones is Madlib at his most heartbroken, backing the smooth harmonies of the obscure Philly soul group the Ethics (lamenting Where did I go wrong? Did I ever treat you bad?) with booming drums and airy guitar lines. Other tracks are more abstract and playful, such as the dubby, angular Loose Goose, which finds room for both Snoop Dogg and Renaldo & the Loaf, or the madcap One for Quartabe/Right Now, filled with jittery, DOOM-like drums and Busta Rhymes trash talk. Dirtknock flips a Young Marble Giants sample into a tight but wobbly groove, filled with ear-catching interruptions, and the very Four Tet-sounding Hopprock attaches a flashback-like sequence of abrupt samples (dog barks, junglist shouts, disembodied syllables) to a yearning guitar pulse and crackling drums. The title track begins with a minute of gamelan drumming that rushes like a river, then segues into a free jazz passage with scattered drums and fluttering flute trills. Latino Negro similarly steps away from hip-hop, showcasing beautiful classical guitars and intricate, rollicking drumming, and leaving them mostly untouched apart from a brief bit of cavernous dub echo. Two for 2, filled with choppy soul samples and psychedelic phasing effects, is dedicated to J Dilla, and while Sound Ancestors as a whole seems as lifetime-encompassing as Donuts, it doesnt feel quite as focused. Still, it sounds recognizably like both Madlib and Four Tet while taking their music into directions where neither artist has ventured before, and its highlights are life-affirming. ~ Paul Simpson

フレディ・ギブスとの共作も記憶に新しい奇才マッドリブの新作は、UKのエレクトロニック・アーティスト、キエラン・ヘブデンことフォー・テットとのコラボ作に。ヒップホップをベースにジャズやファンク、ロック、ラテンなどさまざまなジャンルのサウンド、ヴォーカルなどをコラージュし、ジャンルをクロスオーヴァーした多彩な楽曲が揃っている。イントロ明けの疾走感ある"The Call"から音の渦に身を委ねるべし。
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