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Healing Force Project, the reliable future jazz mutator, delivers an impressive mix of atom-splitting detail and birds-eye macro topography in their latest album . Antonio Marini, the mastermind behind HFP, showcases his exceptional talent and musicality honed through a decade of exemplary releases for Firecracker and Berceuse Heroique. With this album, Marini embarks on a journey to find his elusive jazz-fusion muse, drawing inspiration from the rich history of the genre that emerged in the early ’70s.
Over the course of 40 minutes, “Melts In Your Mind” summons fifty years of intuitively groove-driven, electro-acoustic exploration. The album skillfully weaves together elements of deep jungle, broken beats, Detroit beatdown, and ambient jazz, reminiscent of the experimental phase when jazz pioneers plugged in their instruments and pushed the boundaries of sound in the studio. HFP injects a wandering soul and swagger into their compositions, infusing modal strands of West African and new age influences. The result is a vital and quizzically cool fusion of future jazz that keeps the bloodline of the genre alive.
The six tracks on “Melts In Your Mind” effortlessly flow with a complexity of ideas. “Behaviour of Waves” combines diffused pads, darting basslines, and diffracted jungle beats, creating a mesmerizing sonic landscape. The title track features killer mbalax-style whip cracks and bluesy vocalizations under lysergic-liquid skies. “Inharmonious Layer” evokes the beatdown style of Urban Tribe, while “Diaphonization” showcases a West London broken beats origami. Finally, “Two Waves in the Dark” takes inspiration from the table-laced post-jungle jazz projections of Pat Thomas and Beatrice Dillon, resulting in a truly unique musical experience.
Fans of Squarepusher, Gruppo, fusion-era Miles Davis, This Heat, and Pat Thomas’ jungle excursions will find themselves heavily impressed by Healing Force Project’s “Melts In Your Mind”. With its captivating blend of atom-splitting detail and birds-eye macro topography, this album is a must-listen for anyone seeking innovative and boundary-pushing jazz-fusion. Believe the hype, because this one’s a doozy!
