{"title":"Hieroglyphic Being","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"rvngnl33","title":"Hieroglyphic Being \u0026 J.I.T.U. Anh-Sahm-Buhl - We Are Not The First","description":"\u003ch3\u003eCAT #: RVNGNL33\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelease Date: October 30, 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor those who maintain the more mutable dance music is, the deeper its impact on human evolution, RVNG Intl. presents \u003cem\u003eWe Are Not The First\u003c\/em\u003e, an Epic conducted and deconstructed by Chicago artist \u003cb\u003eHieroglyphic Being\u003c\/b\u003e and the \u003cb\u003eJ.I.T.U. Ahn-Sahm-Bul\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Are Not The First\u003c\/em\u003e combines the musical forces of \u003cb\u003eMarshall Allen\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eDaniel Carter\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eGreg Fox\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eShelley Hirsch\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eShahzad Ismaily\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eElliott Levin\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eJamal Moss\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eRafael Sanchez\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eBen Vida\u003c\/b\u003e in deep dialogue with each other and humans' hidden sonic history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracked as different personale patterns over a week of studio sessions in Brooklyn, said syntax translates into mesmerizing sound forms as the ensemble excavates sonic folklore and ancient music, employing spiritual-jazz’s welfare and health as an agency for balance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn album with an active brain, \u003cem\u003eWe Are Not The First\u003c\/em\u003e aspires to reprogram the mind, to transcend our expectations through bugged-out percussion, modular mayhem, flurries of free improvisation, and voices carrying through the air.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJamal Moss provides speech its due pulpit in in the opening piece, “Apes \u0026amp; Ages. “Forward… Backward… Evolution” intones Moss in “Apes \u0026amp; Ages,” setting an appropriately opaque stage for the album’s genesis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShelly Hirsch exorcises ethereal vocals to subtly incomparable measure in “Civilization That Is Dying.” Hirsch’s vocal throw is near a Theremin’s: she controls sound that is deep within, delivering an operatic warble at full freak-uency while Ben Vida and Shahzad Ismaily take turns running textures up and down the acid washboard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Fuck The Ghetto \/ Think About Outer Space” is an ecstatic, erratic anthem, navigating the fog to invite critical speculation on Humanity’s “Prison of Technology” and the digital documentation of Identity. Rafael Sanchez admonishes, in a way, scatting: “the ghetto” is “of the mind.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLanguage and meaning collide in “Root Of.” Sanchez speaks into the maelstrom of Marshall Allen and Greg Fox’s outer bound bond. In memoriam and in search of an end to the subjugation of persons, “Root Of” demarcates \u003cem\u003eWe Are Not The First\u003c\/em\u003e - and its agents - into the album’s darker and lighter sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn “Universe Is A Simulation,” Daniel Carter’s sax meanders on an improvised beat, almost melancholic but crucially conscious, merging with Fox and Moss in a frequency-haze not unlike the surface blur that sand makes vibrating on top a drum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 18 minutes and 44 seconds, the final movement, “We Are Not The First,” is a celebration of struggle and the living art of noise. Here an almost complete Ahn-Sam-Buhl (get it now?) redirects a city street through the studio filling the air with an implicit interplay of blinking light in contrast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHieroglyphic Being \u0026amp; J.I.T.U.. Ahn-Sahm-Bul develop consciousness from primordial ooze. As in listening, the ooze intones an echo of our deep past, rendering the present ever focused. \u003cem\u003eWe Are Not The First\u003c\/em\u003e is an 11-part Epic and each track is a movement therein that testifies: an ensemble’s vitality lives in its collectivity. When we ask the ooze, the ooze articulates: \u003cb\u003eWe Are Not The First\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHieroglyphic Being \u0026amp; J.I.T.U. 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