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Jazzman Records
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dereksmusicblog, 2018-08-01
"Emanative channel the spirit of Sun Ra's unique brand of space jazz on an album where they mix global influences, religion and politics ... Earth is a career-defining album from Nick Woodmansey's jazz collective who with a little help from his friends created an ambitious, innovative and thought-provoking opus"
"The album embraces spiritual jazz, soul jazz, cosmic jazz, Indo jazz, Yoruba ritual music and Maghrebi and Middle Eastern trance musics, and gives tips of the hat to electronica and Jon Hassell's Fourth World template. That combination in itself is enough to tickle outward-facing pleasure receptors. But - and herein lies the real genius - the music is more than the sum of its diverse and toothsome parts ... With a total of 21 musicians in the collective ensemble, this is Emanative's largest line-up to date. The core octet is augmented by seven additional musicians and there are a further half-dozen guests (...) including British saxophonist Nat Birchall and onetime Egypt 80 keyboard player Dele Sosimi, in whose London-based Afrobeat Orchestra Emanative's baritone saxophonist Tamar Osborn is a longstanding star ... Each and every track is a delight"