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Chnops, Gold and Soul

by Yusef Lateef

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1.
Chnops 04:03
2.
Sound Chamber 04:45
3.
Anomaly 06:38
4.
Fancy Meeting 06:21
5.
Inordinate 05:00
6.
Factoring 05:56
7.
Bass Case 07:13
8.
Quotient 07:27
9.
Pensively 04:53
10.
Content of a Lunch Box 06:25
11.
Shadow of Leaves 08:57

about

The first thing you'll hear are sound-colors, produced by part-carbonites. These part-carbonites, in one sense, produce AUTOPHYSIOPSYCHIC* sounds, in concert, partly as functional combination of their other parts: Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Potassium, Sulphur, Au and Soul.

Thereafter ensues a Chamber of intervals, outlining an Anomaly. Then follows, as a consequence: a Fancy Meeting of Inordinate expressions...Bass melodicals expressive of the high, middle and lower parts in harmonic music.

Now in reality, this is a case for receiving and enclosing music Quotients, filled with treasures of beauty, repeated with evolutionary jewels of sound, as it approaches the high vaults of aesthetics: Pensively, dreamily, wistfully.

Then impinges upon the imagination thoughtful Content of other inner gems, not unlike diamonds transformed into sound...the mind summons the soul to Lunch, in spite of being Boxed within a partly carbonaceous body-container.

The last vibration to be heard is the conversion of the Shadow of Leaves, into deep dark sound images, cast for listeners like bodies intercepting light. It is a deviation, sharply processed, extending impressions in wide outflows of sound particles of unequal length spiraling and dwindling incessantly into myriads: THE GOLD OF INNER CONTEMPLATION.

- Yusef Lateef


* Autophysiopsychic - from one’s physical, mental and spiritual self.

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released August 14, 2022

Yusef Lateef - Woodwinds and Keyboards
Avery Sharpe - Electric Bass
Mark Saltman - Acoustic Bass
Adam Rudolph - Percussion

Total Time 66:53 | Alnur Music Publishing Co. BMI

Produced by: Yusef Lateef

Original Recording: Norman Blain
Mix and Mastering: Norman Blain
Digital Mastering: Jim Hemingway
Booklet and Traypack Design: Rick Ward

Recorded at: Moonstar Media, Leverett, MA, 1997

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Yusef Lateef

Yusef Lateef was a Grammy Award-winning composer, performer, recording artist, author, visual artist, educator and philosopher who was a major force on the international musical scene for more than six decades.

He was named an American Jazz Master in the year 2010 by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Until his passing on December 23, 2013 at age 93, Yusef remained a vital and active artist. ... more

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