Sydney’s acclaimed jazz trio The Necks are releasing their big 16th studio album today. Mindset marks a bit of a milestone for the band, as it’s their first album to be released in both CD and vinyl formats.
The disc features just two sprawling and starkly different numbers, the throbbing “Rum Jungle” and dreamy “Daylights.”
“Mindset shares some elements in common with our previous album Silverwater, mostly in some mixing approaches and rhythmic devices; a reflection of our ongoing fascination with polymetric material and varying simultaneous pulses,” explained The Necks’ drummer and percussionist Tony Buck, “but it’s a whole other thing again, and what’s more, the two tracks are very different from each other – ‘Rum Jungle’ displays the live approach of the trio of piano, bass, and drums a lot more; ‘Daylights’ features a bed of electronics and little sounds that slowly converge and coalesce into a multi-layered, multi-tempo, swirling soundscape.”
Look for Mindset now in all good music stores.
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