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Bandcamp / Buy Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection invites direct comparison to one of the most inspired purple patches in modern musical history: Miles Davis’ electric period of the 1970s. The album’s genesis is bold to begin with: In 2018, keen to kick old songwriting habits, Matthew E. White went into the studio with his septet to record a series of improvisational sessions in the spirit of the hard-driving fusion that Davis pursued from 1969’s In A Silent Way to 1975’s Agharta. Inviting the Alabama sculptor and experimental musician Lonnie Holley to add his voca...

Matthew E White and Lonnie Holley: Broken Mirror review - well it’s certainly out there David Smyth At his Richmond, Virginia studio Spacebomb, Matthew E White revived the idea of the house band – a supremely talented backing group that can play with anyone that arrives and presses record. On their most popular releases, including Natalie Prass’s self-titled debut from 2015 and White’s 2012 album Big Inner, that has meant a sumptuous country-soul sound laden with strings and horns, but given that he and many of Spacebomb’s personnel are graduates of the prestigious J...

When instinct and serendipity collide it’s imperative to act fast. In those rare moments where something akin to magic presents itself time can feel as though it’s slipping through your fingers like sand in an hourglass. When producer and musician Matthew E. White showed Lonnie Holley a series of demos he’d shelved in 2018, he quickly realised that the Alabama-born artist and performer was the missing piece he needed to transform those sonic sketches into three-dimensional compositions. As White made his way through the instrumentals, Holley searched pages of his notebook for penned tho...

White recorded the music for Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection with a septet of musicians in 2018, as an experiment in “loose, gestural composition” akin to Miles Davis’ On The Corner. After backing Holley at a gig in Richmond, Virginia the following year, White played him some edits from those recordings. Holley quickly pulled out his notebooks and sung complete first takes to music he’d never heard. Pre-order 1. This Here Jungle of Moderness/Composition 14 2. Broken Mirror (A Selfie Reflection)/Composition 9 3. I Cried Space Dust/Composition 12 4. I’m Not Tripping/Composition ...

Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection and it arrives April 9 via White’s Spacebomb Records and Jagjaguwar. Below, find a new song called “This Here Jungle of Moderness/Composition 14.” White and Holley first played together in 2019, when the Spacebomb founder and his crew of Richmond-based musicians backed the Alabama artist’s for a gig in Virginia’s capital city. Reminded of a series of instrumentals that he’d recorded with those same musicians the prior year, White invited Holley to write and record over those tracks, which make up Broken Mirror. 01 This Here Jungle of Moderness/C...