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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelJagj, Jagjaguwar
UPC0656605233024
eBay Product ID (ePID)20046071917
Product Key Features
Release Year2018
FormatCD
GenreRock
ArtistUnknown Mortal Orchestra
Release TitleIc-01 Hanoi
Dimensions
Item Height0.28 in
Item Weight0.12 lb
Item Length5.73 in
Item Width4.96 in
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Number of Discs1
NotesWhile recording Unknown Mortal Orchestra's latest release, Sex & Food, Ruban Nielson, his longtime collaborator Jacob Portrait and his brother Kody Nielson, found themselves in the Vietnamese city of Hanoi playing and recording with local musicians at Phu Sa Studios. The studio, normally used for traditional Vietnamese music, found the band jamming on sessions dubbed IC-01 Hanoi: exploring the outer edges of the band's influences in jazz, fusion and the avant-garde. The musicians, along with Ruban and Kody's father, a jazz musician in his own right, helped lay down the unique textures heard throughout Hanoi. At it's core it's a record of exploration, finding it's closest antecedent in Miles Davis' experimental On The Corner - itself a record full of nods toward avant-garde composers and jazz outsiders alike. Hanoi finds Ruban amplifying and stretching out on lead guitar, with a blown-out and wandering fuzz tone that slinks throughout the sessions. Kody and Jacob match Ruban's melodic diversions with aplomb, mining their talents to finding as easy a role in the fusion of funk as they do in the more ambient and abstract tangents.