Pat Thomas - New Jazz Jungle: Remembering

Feedback Moves

£24.82

Format: 2 x LP w/ liner notes insert by Edward George (The Strangeness of Dub, Black Audio Film Collective).
Catalogue No.: FM3
Release Date: 21 Oct 2022
Genre: International

A1. One Nation
A2. Remembering
A3 . The Way To Heaven
B1. Who Are The Strangers?
B3. Repentance
C1. Precious Gift
C2. The Reply
D1. As You Well Know
D2. It's True
D3. No Surprises

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 & 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.

The Wire magazine ran a piece with Pat Thomas to coincide with the announcement of the record:https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/klangfarbenmelodie-in-the-dancehall-pat-thomas-s-junglist-selection

We Jazz Records have printed an early review of the LP in the summer issue of their magazine The Call:https://wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com/merch/we-jazz-magazine-summer-2022-the-call

The record is due to be review by The Wire, The Quietus & more and to be played by BBC Late Junction and other radio outlets. Early plays on Noods, Clyde Built & Resonance FM.