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All four musicians in avant-rock supergroup Body MeÏaâdrummer Greg Fox, bassist Melvin Gibbs, and guitarists Sasha Frere-Jones and Grey McMurrayâhave spent their careers in myriad contexts, and their debut album together,
The Work Is Slow, finds them operating in yet another mode, dishing out sprawling post-rock jams both jazzy and psychedelic. One could point to previous efforts as antecedentsâjazz-fusion freak-outs in Gibbsâ Power Tools, funk-rock meanderings in Frere-Jonesâ Ui, drugged-out fuzz in Foxâs Teeth Mountainâbut the quartet sounds supremely focused on this record. More than their other output, the goal here is to entrance.
Sasha-frere-jonesGreg-foxMelvin-gibbsOrnette-colemanGrey-mcmurrayWork-is-slowGibb-power-toolsTeeth-mountainPrime-timeBody-meπaRockOh and Sorey aren't mere collaborators or accompanists; they're educators and composers in their own rights. Of Sorey's drumming, Iyer cites a "life-sustaining kind of magic." And of Oh's bass playing, "Her awareness of and relation to pulse, it's like micro-detail," he says. Those qualities and more can be found on
Uneasy, the trio's first studio record, which drops April 9 on ECM Records. The album is a mix of topical material "Children of Flint" with Iyer originals ("Combat Breathing") and standards ("Night and Day") from deep in their wheelhouse.
Most importantly, Iyer considers the pair to be his musical family; together, they're his stronghold through a racially and sociopolitically turbulent time. And with the tragic Atlanta spa shootings in the rearview, the cover—where the three musicians' names float around an out-of-focus Statue of Liberty—is a side-eyed glance at what it means to be an American.
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