Name: New Jazz Jungle: Remembering
Brand: Pat Thomas

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Limited edition

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2022-11-18

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Rubadub

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Pat Thomas

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Jazz

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Feedback Moves

Pat Thomas is an author, scholar, musician, and music producer based in San Francisco. He founded a record label in 1988 and has released five solo records from 1987 to 1997. Additionally, he was a drummer and percussionist for Absolute Grey and Mushroom. Pat has produced reissues for Water and other labels, featuring vintage recordings from notable artists such as Allen Ginsberg and Elaine Brown. His writing about music has been featured in Mojo, Crawdaddy, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
In his book "Listen Whitey! The Sights And Sounds Of Black Power 1965-1975," Pat Thomas delves into the forgotten history of Motown's subsidiary label Black Forum and privately pressed Black Power soul singles. Through his research in Oakland, CA, he discovered rare recordings of speeches, interviews, and music by prominent activists like Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. He also served as a consultant for Stanley Nelson's PBS documentary "The Black Panthers: Vanguard Of The Revolution." Pat has lectured at various universities worldwide.
Together with [a522591], Pat curated the book "Invitation To Openness: The Jazz & Soul Photography Of Les McCann 1960-1980" in 2015. In 2017, his book "Did It ! From Yippie To Yuppie: Jerry Rubin An American Revolutionary" was published. He was also involved with [l275364] as

Feedback Moves returns with a vinyl reissue of Pat Thomas’ New Jazz Jungle: Remembering. The album was originally released on CD in 1997, at a time when Pat had already spent years playing on the free improvisation circuit with the likes of Lol Coxhill and Derek Bailey. Thomas is largely known as a jazz and improvising pianist, but can be heard using electronics as far back as 1989 on an electro acoustic work called Monads and on the Bailey-led Company ’91 recordings. 

Thomas identified jungle’s weirdness and intensity and saw a space open for his own interpretation, on New Jazz Jungle: Remembering he utilises his classical training and knowledge of the tonal systems used by 20th century composer’s Schoenberg and Webern, and fuses that with his earlier experiences using electronics, keyboards &amp; sampling techniques. What we end up with is 10 tracks of bass heavy jungle breaks, which are intersected with vocal and orchestral samples, and layers of percussion rotating at varying time signatures. It’s in this fashion that the album seems to present itself: in layers. Layers of samples, keyboards and FX, deployed at varying speeds, never losing their intensity. The re-issue of this lost classic comes at a time when Thomas continues to go from strength to strength, having recently released various solo and collaborative works with a wide range of musicians and projects such as Matana Roberts, Elaine Mitchener, حمد [Ahmed], Black Top, XT and many more.

New Jazz Jungle: Remembering

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