"Clairvoyant Dimensions" is the first album by Mei Honeycomb, a new duo of Jordan Czamanski, renowned as a member of the acclaimed Juju & Jordash and the Magic Mountain High project, with solo work released as Jordan GCZ, and legendary saxophonist Jeff Hollie, known mostly for his work with Frank Zappa and Ike Willis. An explorative ambient album, "Clairvoyant Dimensions" is an exercise in distance and contemplation, and the exhilarating feeling of insight, however fleeting, like staring at the midnight flicker of an old VCR. Czamanski's music has a trademark tenderness and soft-spokenness, an ability to maximize minimalist musical elements and bring them to an open-ended conclusion. Jeff Hollie provides interpretative sax lines on all tracks, slipping into the scene like a shadow, silent and unexpected, touching upon emotional registers almost explicit, yet confounding.
As musical signifiers keep turning around themselves, they set up a mood of euphoria, one that suggests understanding. Never explicitly spaced-out, there is continuous reference to cosmoses both inward and far away. Ambient music in modern form. Jordan Czamanski uses his experience in producing off-the-charts club music to come up with five tracks that at times are standstills, and at times dwell in forward momentum. Jeff Hollie provides both comprehension and beautiful confusion. As grainy images switch into focus, "Clairvoyant Dimensions" is a beautiful and contemplative trip that suggests its own reality in delicate ways. One of the five tracks, the gorgeous live-recorded "Painted Desert Pastel", features composer, performer, and researcher Ilya Ziblat Shay on double bass and electronics.
Screen-printed cover designed by Johan Kauth.
Mastering by Rashad Becker
As musical signifiers keep turning around themselves, they set up a mood of euphoria, one that suggests understanding. Never explicitly spaced-out, there is continuous reference to cosmoses both inward and far away. Ambient music in modern form. Jordan Czamanski uses his experience in producing off-the-charts club music to come up with five tracks that at times are standstills, and at times dwell in forward momentum. Jeff Hollie provides both comprehension and beautiful confusion. As grainy images switch into focus, "Clairvoyant Dimensions" is a beautiful and contemplative trip that suggests its own reality in delicate ways. One of the five tracks, the gorgeous live-recorded "Painted Desert Pastel", features composer, performer, and researcher Ilya Ziblat Shay on double bass and electronics.
Screen-printed cover designed by Johan Kauth.
Mastering by Rashad Becker
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Joining a quietly growing subsect of artists who are embracing the more sublime and less hurried side of the musical cannon, Jordan Czamanski and Jeff Hollie present a fully realized and ambitious new side to ambient music that's both technologically and musically advanced. Coated in a futuristic static, and guided by Hollie's quasi-spiritual saxophone playing, it's an immersive and positively healing experience that leaves the listener feeling both relaxed and rejuvenated.TRACK LISTING
squeaky eye syndrome
duct tape blues
at peace
painted desert pastel - live in zaandam with ilya ziblat shay
drone
