Makaya McCraven
In The Moment

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Makaya McCraven - In the Moment

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What people Are Saying

 

“One of the year’s most mesmerizing releases…”

Michael J. West, JazzTimes

“Fresh energy and ideas abound.”

Matthew Grigg, The Free Jazz Collective

 

“It is a vitalized amalgam of jazz and hip-hop, all improvised and energized by top players.”

Mark Corroto, All About Jazz

“…A hypnotic double album…”

- Nate Chinen, Pitchfork

Announcing IARC0003: Makaya McCraven - In the Moment

Released January 20, 2015
Available on LP/CD/Digital via our Bandcamp page

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Makaya McCraven’s new album is pared from nearly 48 hours of live, improvised performance, recorded at one venue over 12 months and 28 shows. Makaya culled, cut, rendered and remixed the mass of sounds into 19 potent pieces of organic beat music and, as constructed, thusly named, In the Moment.

In January of 2013, Makaya set to mapping out a weekly residency from within a reclaimed bank vault turned contemporary restaurant in the heart of Chicago’s Ukrainian Village. Recruiting friends and frequent collaborators, over the course of the year, the residency became a hotbed for a rotation of Chicago improvisers multifarious in specialization. From local luminaries of post-rock to left-field hip-hop, the stage was made as a proving ground for style experiments based in jazz and hip-hop but faithfully receiving the spontaneous summoning of a host of subconscious influences. From free jazz to krautrock to downtempo house, what they arrived at was a new lexicon within an improvisational framework.

Jeff Parker (Tortoise, Chicago Underground), Joshua Abrams (Natural Information Society, Prefuse 73), and De’Sean Jones (Underground Resistance) were among those who accepted Makaya’s invitation over the course of the residency. Public House Sound Recordings’ founder Dave Vettraino committed himself to the task of recording and mixing every performance that occurred. From those raw hours of performance, Makaya trimmed and hewed the honey pot into an armory of beats, vamps, hooks and arresting moments of instrumental revelation.

Notes

Makaya McCraven - drums, beats, loops & overdubs

Matt Ulery - double bass & bass guitar

Marquis Hill - trumpet

Junius Paul - double bass & bass guitar

Justefan - vibraphone

Jeff Parker - guitar

Joshua Abrams - double bass

De'Sean Jones - tenor saxophone

Tony Barba - tenor saxophone & electronics

Executive Produced by Scott McNiece

Produced by Makaya McCraven

Recorded by Dave Vettraino

Mixed by Dave Vettraino & Makaya McCraven

Mastered by Shelly Steffens

Cover photo by Nathan Michael

Design by Craig Hansen & Leah Ball

All rights reserved.

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About Makaya McCraven

Makaya McCraven is a beat scientist. The cutting-edge drummer, producer and sonic collagist is a multi-talented force whose inventive creative process & intuitive style of performance defy categorization.

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