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Coming of the Moon Dogs

by Edrix Puzzle

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Andrew Hickford
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Andrew Hickford Music is great, but given up on this label now. This is the last physical order I make. Never respond to enquires, never send out orders. No communication. Either put up genuine shipping dates or don't offer physical product that you can't deliver. Even when they do finally ship (I should add items marked as available NOT preorders that I get can be delayed) they forget to add in promo gifts that were promised such as on BC Fridays. Favorite track: Farthest Known.
ksvo
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ksvo Love this album. Cosmic, psychedelic, droid jazz. Still waiting on the vinyl, though. It is way overdue after promised shipment. Haven’t been able to get any feedback on date of delivery.
jdg_
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jdg_ Will you be mailing out any of the records? Or responding to any queries?
John Seltenreich
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John Seltenreich Yikes! I read the 'liner notes' and think this is way over my head. But the music isn't. I get the Hancock, Weather Report, London jazz scene, psychoelectronicdelic cascading of jazz is on the move creative offering. Brilliant, creative, out there but still here offerings. There's a lot of great music out there but who's doing it BETTER than this?
hortonjupiter
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hortonjupiter FUCK A PRIEST! This is some high grade class A next level "shit". Imma play this on rotate. LOVE LOVE LOVE <3

Post script: tried to play it out last night but I got a file not supported error :( how so? Favorite track: Deep in Dione.
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    The reviews are coming in thick and fast and Tugg's sonic message is being received far and wide. "From Basement Jaxx to Sir Elton, Kano to Brian Ferry, Nathan ‘Tugg’ Curran defines the ‘go-to’ drummer but that’s only one dimension of this restless spirited musician. Beyond the world of an exemplary sticks-man, Curran has over the last couple of years used space to energise his own music, calling on his deep rooted jazz and funk influences, a beyond-nerd knowledge of vintage drum machines and an unguarded sci-fi enthusiasm to shape his own definitive soundscape.

    First came Planet Battagon, hurtling on a slipstream of dancefloor syncopation, techno templates, future jazz visions and funk fuelled escapism. Settling into orbit with the seismic 2020 LP ‘Trans Neptunia’ the band’s upward trajectory through the jazz rave universe seemed set but Curran and crew had other plans, a more expansive mode of musical transportation that became Edrix Puzzle. Joining Curran plus fellow Battagon dwellers Oli Savill (percussion) and Martin Slattery (Bass clarinet and sax), the Puzzle was completed by the addition of Tom Mason on acoustic bass and classical violinist Darren Berry. From the outset, with the release of their ‘Rise To Eris’ EP last year, it was clear that Edrix Puzzle were boldly going further, taking multi-coloured acoustic tones, scorching beats and synth ballistics somewhere deeper into the vortex where Sun-Ra, Mwandishi era Hancock, Richard James and other sonic outliers do magic.

    Now comes the first full Edrix Puzzle statement ‘Coming Of The Moon Dogs’. Put together remotely over lock down, the album sets out to extend the fluid, front facing grooves and resonant cosmic overtones that are central to Curran’s solo projects. While much of the music from those static pandemic times looked inwards, the intrepid Edrix Puzzle responded differently, taking a hyper-imaginative reaction to the context as inspiration. ‘Coming of the Moon Dogs’ reaches out beyond the actual, soundtracking some otherworlds and beaming you away from the mundane..."

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    To celebrate getting the esteemed Arts Desk nod for 'Vinyl of The Month'! We've added label stock of the sold out Double Drop Vol.2 to Edrix Puzzle's debut LP and Planet Battagon's wild Trans-Neptunia LP in a bargin collectors bundle.

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    Get em' whilst they're hot. Truth and Lies providing the vibe verbiage for the latest single; Deep in Dione tinyurl.com/3vuawcr5

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    Following last years sold-out 12" 'Rise to Eris' Edrix Puzzle return with their debut LP.

    Rising from the rubble of Planet Battagon’s cosmic collision of shimmering improvisation and bass-weight electronics, producer, multi/instrumentalist and veteran drummer, Nathan “Tugg” Curran (Basement Jaxx, Kano, Bryan Ferry) returns with London-based ensemble, Edrix Puzzle’s latest celestial disturbance, ‘Coming Of The Moon Dogs’, forthcoming on On the Corner, this October 2022.

    Edrix pulses in the distant sky. Modal meditations, hypnotic bowed formations and detuned throbs of echo and bass reverberate from the ruins of Planet Battagon. A puzzle, a tremor detected in the stars buried deep in the decay of Neptunia retracting at breaking speed. Edrix pulses in the distance…

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Edrix pulses in the distant sky. Modal meditations, hypnotic bowed formations and detuned throbs of echo and bass reverberate from the ruins of Planet Battagon. A puzzle, a tremor detected in the stars buried deep in the decay of Neptunia retractracting at breaking speed. Edrix pulses in the distance…

Rising from the rubble of Planet Battagon’s cosmic collision of shimmering improvisation and bass-weight electronics, producer, multi/instrumentalist and veteran drummer, Nathan “Tugg” Curran (Basement Jaxx, Kano, Bryan Ferry) returns with London-based ensemble, Edrix Puzzle’s latest celestial disturbance, ‘Coming Of The Moon Dogs’, forthcoming on On the Corner, this October 2022.

Presenting the latest chapter in Curran’s reimagined v3050 dub of Mwandishi-era Herbie Hancock, Edrix Puzzle swap its mother planet’s rattling Battagon sub-bass and improvised, machine-bebop of bleep, for live acoustic bass (Tom Mason), classical violin (Darren Berry), and Stockhausen-esque experiments. Recorded remotely across ten months during lockdown, the full-length follow up to Edrix’s 2021 ‘Rise To Eris EP’ (support from Tom Ravenscourt, Gilles Peterson), also features Oli Savill (Percussion) and Martin Slattery (Bass Clarinet & Sax) (two long time Curran collaborators and members of Planet Battagon) – Tugg the creator can be found on acoustic drums, drum synths and machines.

Ra’s supersonic sounds from Saturn, Aphex Twin’s vanished Melodies From Mars tape and violinist Michael White’s Journey Of The Black Star all swell in the atomic body of Edrix Puzzle’s Coming Of… but there are no geo-tags of effect in infinity, right? Miles sketched the blueprint in ’69, ‘Shh/Peaceful’, the Mixolydian route from earth to the cosmos set pace to a new idiom that Bitches Brew amplified and supersized - ‘Spanish Key’, a mood suspended in time overlooking a future of FlyLo, Shabaka & Moor Mother. Correa & Zawinul’s electric piano finessings of Miles’s technicolour paintings charted course, Herbie piloted it into the infinisphere.

‘Rain Dance’ is the opening track on Hancock’s 1973 album Sextant, the third and final album in his Mwandishi (Swahili for writer/composer) sextet series and the stem of Edrix Puzzle’s design, its opening phrases of sequenced ARP synths and echoplex, Shaka-esque drip delays, nod to Tangerine Dream, or Drexciya’s subaquatic dives in to Detroit tech 20 years fast forward. When introduced to ‘Rain Dance’ by bassist, Tom Mason, Curran sensed Edrix spaceways converging.

Built upon Curran’s long-formed concept of a far away Planet Battagon, (whose inhabitants would service their imperial king, Lord Battagon, with sounds composed from intergalactic waste), Edrix represents an arcane moon planet, in orbit of Battagon thousands of light years in the expanse. Where Planet Battagon’s 2020 album ‘Trans-Neptunia’ “cosmic droid jazz freakout” (SotU) takes pause, Edrix Puzzle’s analog, instrumental noir ‘Coming Of’… begins. Martin Slattery’s phase-drenched horns & Darren Berry’s piercing string textures provide the impetus on opener ‘Shadow Of Phobe’, before the dub-heavy, Syncussion-shredding first single ‘V11’, channel the spirits of Lee Perry & Frank Zappa in 7/8 style. ‘Haunted Soldiers Of Rhea’ salutes Herbie and Ursula Rucker & 4Hero’s ‘Loveless’ drum n double bass apparition, whilst Martin Slattery’s cinematic sax lines glide across SY-1 sweeps and FX. Explosive bursts of free playing and improvised jungle, conjure flashbacks of 1980s Hamlet cigar adverts on ‘Unhuman Hyperion’. ‘Deep In Dione’ & ‘Farthest Known’ lean into Battagon bass and droid jazz terrain, Curran’s shuffling kit blasts care little for time – who cares where the 1 is, before Tom Mason’s swirling bowed double bass mutations clatter into early 1950s electronic samples on album outro, ‘Cry Wolf’.

Whilst Curran’s Planet Battagon idles in the galaxy, Edrix’s post punk silhouette appears in the temporal of eclipse, in transit and resurrected, primed to emerge out of darkness.

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released November 4, 2022

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