〈Tru Thoughts〉からUKサイケジャズバンド Ebi Sodaの即完だった最新アルバムが数量限定ブラック・ヴァイナルにてリプレス!!

英国ブライトンを拠点に活動、VVilhelm (Trombone)、Conor Knight (Guitar)、Hari - Lee Evans (Bass)、Louis Jenkins (Keys)、 Sam Schlich Davies (Drums)からなるUKジャズ・バンド、Ebi Soda。
Gilles Peterson主催のWe Out Here、ロンドンのJazz Re:Freshed、Latitudeといった大型フェスに出演するほど注目を集める彼らが、『Honk If You're Sad』をリプレス!
Kokoroko, Can, Lounge Lizards, BadBadNotGood, Ronin Arkestra, and The Fallなど、挙げればきりがないほどの様々なアーティストの影響を受けた結果、サイケデリア、不協和音、アンビエント、ジャズ、ヒップホップ、エレクトロニック・ミュージックを交差させるクロス・オーバーな作品が誕生している。

発売・販売元 提供資料 （2022/09/08）

British jazz quintet Ebi Soda first began making music in a small flat at a Brighton university. Their early recording process involved capturing whole takes on a two-track recorder and overdubbing them instrument by instrument, responding to the wild sounds laid down on tape and pushing things in more outlandish directions. Honk If Youre Sad is their second studio album and their first on a bigger label (Tru Thoughts), but the band still have the same restless sense of exploration theyve had since the beginning. The musicians arent virtuosic by any means -- theres untrained post-punk grittiness to their playing -- but their sheer exuberance is inspiring, and its fascinating to hear them pull ideas from thin air and just go for it. Opener "My Man from College" nods to their origins, and it starts tentatively before drummer Sam Schlich Davies works up a sweat, while trombonist VVilhelm and guest tenor saxophonist Deji Ijishakin seem to careen from a high ceiling, swinging from ropes. On other songs like "Tang of the Zest," the band construct a lush atmosphere, yet the drums skitter nervously, and the horns erupt violently, dashing any mellow vibes one might be getting from the groups music. "Yoshi Orange" starts with an F-bomb, like someone dropped a heavy object on their foot, before Ebi Soda launch into an absurdly funky angular groove, then tunnel through an ambient echo chamber. "Listen, King" goes further into ambient dub mode, doing without drums entirely and phasing through various trippy effects, revealing the sounds of chirping birds. Other influences surface throughout the album, from the bossa nova rhythms of "Pseudocreme" to the progressive electronic ripples at the beginning of "Soft Peng," while "Chandler" (with guest trumpeter Yazz Ahmed) has drum machine programming recalling the U.K. drill scene. Near the albums end, "Gated Community with a Public Pool" is a confounding audio puzzle, as the musicians find a way to fit jagged rhythms, skronking horns, and pulsating synths together without everyone sounding like theyre stepping on top of each other. Ebi Soda are a boundlessly creative group, and its an absolute delight to hear them create their own musical language. ~ Paul Simpson

Rovi