Piccadilly says: "...the Jaz CD (causing much interest when played in the shop)...The minister of edits, Jaz, follows up his amazingly ace twelves on Beard Science and Sixty Five with his first full length CD, which naturally features another 14 edits. 13 of these are previously unreleased and none of them disappoint - there's not a dud track on the disc! On "I Played Sports" Jaz takes us right across the board, from Balearic mellowness via spacious choral cosmic rock to a mix of underground and full-on disco. All the time he never goes for the obvious heard-em-before tracks to mess with, instead these cuts will have even the the most well-versed in the Balearic / cosmic / disco arts scratching their heads in wonder."
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Here's a little behind the scenes commentary:
The opening tune (Love in the Water) is about baptism. And then track two (The Episcopal Church Welcomes You) is about church. Track 3 (Glamsanity) is about the initial enjoyment of a new life. Tracks 4 (Weejun Dancer) and 5 (Categorical Imperative) are about Romans 7 and the law's questionable ability to solve inner struggles, an issue that often emerges soon after track 3. Track 6 (Shake Your Wonder Maker) is about Freedom, sort of a Lutheran "sin boldly" = fruit of the spirit sentiment, very creative and not pre-conceived or contrived. Track 7 (Doyers Street Rag) is sort of the continued experience of the Old Adam, in spite of track 6, amounting to a Simul Iustus et Peccator diagnosis when tracks 6 and 7 are coupled together. The same tension exists again in tracks 8 (freedom) and 9 (peccator) (Shrimp & Grits, and Tommy's theme). Same story, different week. Track 10 (Whisper) same thing: other worldly high-pitched alien lick is the Gospel atop the dark funk of a low anthropology. Track 11 (Mann Up) is a tribute to Michael Mann, who often captures the issues of the human heart and its relationship to God better than most film makers (and who gets the 80s). Same themes. Life is full of contrasts. "Good" and "bad" moments. Life feels like it's both speeding up and slowing down at the same time. There's a neurotic element implicit if the psychology of faith, but always a bigger plan intervening and threading its way through the whole thing, almost pulling the song out of itself. Mann as a director is the perfect human analogy for God in his simultaneous all-seeing vision and huge concern for detail. Then 12 (Give Some Love) is just worship and enjoyment of God's having ambushed the human heart (there's a line in there: "Give some love to the Father up above."). Life is all about God (which for me is synonymous with disco/dance/positivity, and all of that's in their, especially in the roto-tom solo). Track 13 (Chaperone City) and also track 7 are sort of about reminiscing about the good ole days in New York City, riding in cabs at night and living in Chinatown. Also, Track 9 is a tribute to my new nephew and also Tom Becker, about the place where the two meet, about the things Tom B. can teach little Tommy, and knowing about doing things wrong and how to be a "man". And track 14 (State of Hindipendence) is heaven, angels singing, wonderful change of scenery, and a fantastic end. ...or you can just listen to it without knowing any of that stuff and hopefully you'll like it! bioluminescently, JAZ+
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