The Discipline of Assent Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt Duo

• 1Flails & Strands05:01
• 2A New Arrival03:17
• 3Aurelius Dye03:19
• 4Setenta y Tres02:03
• 5Sequoia Sketch03:17
• 6The Slip02:28
• 7The Short Sun02:45
• 8Random Treasures03:54
• 9Mountain Montage11:03
• Total Runtime37:07

Info for The Discipline of Assent

Martin Rude (Sun River) & Jakob Skøtt (Causa Sui) team up for a genre-defying record that was recorded during an exceptional session on March 3rd 2020. Martin brought his Double Bass, Acoustic & Baritone guitar into the studio of Causa Sui, where Jakob's drums were already miked & prepped by soundwiz Jonas Munk, freshly tuned from the new Causa Sui recordings. The music they played ranges from sprawled out pre-fusion electric jazz to psychedelic folk ragas. After the sessions, the hours of free floating music was edited & dubbed by Jakob Skøtt into shorter cohesive segments, but maintaining the improvised vibe of these first takes.

It is a record that pays homage to the great innovators of jazz: Miles & Trane (or perhaps more fittingly their peak-drummers: Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette & Elvin Jones), as well as Mingus at his fiercest or Sun Ra at his most exotic. Not merely a tribute, the album doubles down with guitar pickings ala John Fahey & Sandy Bull, as well as sparse layers of oddly-tempered mallet percussion and synthesizers. But perhaps the closest reference isn't something of a certain place in time, but rather a free flowing ethos of stoic proportions: letting happen what it may, turning the accidents and mistakes along the way into something vital.

Martin Rude, double bass, acoustic guitars
Jakob Skøtt, drums

No biography found.

This album contains no booklet.