David Virelles - Antenna

The music of Cuban-born, Brooklyn-based pianist David Virelles conjures a hallucinatory world in which ancient Afro-Cuban rhythms and ritual reverberate in the here and now. His latest ECM offering is Antenna, music attuned to a timeless rhythmic-cultural current even as it pulses with a vibrantly urban, modernist energy. Antenna � a five-track, 22-minute EP released exclusively on vinyl and digitally � sees Virelles channel Afro-Cuban percussion into an electro-acoustic, almost psychedelic swirl, one that melds jazz improvisation and organic grooves with cut-and-paste digital refraction, shadowy synthesizers, otherworldly field recordings and even Latin hip-hop. Antenna is an undulating, throbbing, dizzying dream of sound. Mb�k�, Virelles's ECM leader debut from 2014, featured in Best Of The Year lists in The New York Times, NPR, iTunes and The Village Voice, among others. The Guardian described it as a jazz-infused world-music project beyond categories, adding: Virelles looks set to make big differences in contemporary music for years to come.Collective personnel: David Virelles (acoustic piano, Hammond B3 organ, Roland JUNO-6, Vermona electric piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, prepared piano, programming, samples); Alexander Overington (electronics, samples, cello); Henry Threadgill (alto saxophone); Rom�n D�az (vocals); Marcus Gilmore (drums, electronic percussion); Rafiq Bhatia (guitar); Eti�n Brebaje Man (vocals); Mauricio Herrera (percussion); Los Seres (percussion)