Ian Rapien's Spectral Awakenings at 55 Bar

Ian Rapien’s Spectral Awakenings merges electronic jazz circa late-Miles Davis and Weather Report style jazz - music that is spiritual, visceral, of both the heart and mind - with today’s post-tribal, post MMDA electronica, that is informed by today’s funk. To hear this music is to be massaged by dense sonics, then shot down the rabbit hole of swirling, delightful music, to what can only be described as “the zone” (your eyes are closed, your mind is somewhere else, but here, also). Kind of like that scene in the movie “The Cell” where J-Lo enters the mind of a twisted killer and, like Alice In Wonderland, finds herself floating in a new world...

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Ian Rapien’s Spectral Awakenings merges electronic jazz circa late-Miles Davis and Weather Report style jazz - music that is spiritual, visceral, of both the heart and mind - with today’s post-tribal, post MMDA electronica, that is informed by today’s funk. To hear this music is to be massaged by dense sonics, then shot down the rabbit hole of swirling, delightful music, to what can only be described as “the zone” (your eyes are closed, your mind is somewhere else, but here, also). Kind of like that scene in the movie “The Cell” where J-Lo enters the mind of a twisted killer and, like Alice In Wonderland, finds herself floating in a new world. Only better and without J-Lo or the movie.

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