PRODUCT

Barney Wilen [ 2LP : Moshi ]

SKU

WLP110

ARTIST

Barney Wilen

TITLE

Moshi

LABEL

SouffleContinu Records

CATALOG

FFL015

FORMAT

LP

CONDITION

Record New / Cover New

ADDED ON

July 2021

GENRE

AFRICA JAZZ

INFO

2017 FR Reissue of this 'outernational' music holy grail! - In 1970 Barney Wilen assembled a team of filmmakers, technicians and musicians to travel to Africa for the purpose of recording the music of the native pygmy tribes. Upon returning to Paris two years later, he created 'Moshi', a dark, eccentric effort fusing avant-jazz sensibilities with African rhythms, ambient sound effects and melodies rooted in American blues traditions. Cut with French and African players including guitarist Pierre Chaze, pianist Michel Graillier and percussionist Didier Leon, this is music with few precedents or followers, spanning from extraterrestrial dissonance to earthbound, streetlegal funk. Wilen pays little heed to conventional structure, assembling tracks like 'Afrika Freak Out' and 'Zombizar' from spare parts of indeterminate origins.