Deface The Currency The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis
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Album-Release:
2026
HRA-Release:
20.02.2026
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- 1 Deface The Currency 05:13
- 2 Gestations 05:07
- 3 30 Years Of Knowing 03:45
- 4 Rules Of The Game 04:09
- 5 Universal Security 04:27
- 6 Clutch 06:23
- 7 Serpent Tongue (Slight Return) 07:13
Info for Deface The Currency
Neues Album der experimentellen Spiritual-Punk-Jazz- "Supergroup". 2024 taten sich für ihr gemeinsames Impulse!-Albumdebüt erstmals das Jazz-Punk-Trio The Messthetics aus Washington DC, bestehend aus Mitgliedern der Punk-Band Fugazi, und der in New York ansässige Jazz-Tenorsaxofonist James Brandon Lewis zusammen. Fans und Medien waren begeistert und beschrieben ihre Musik u.a. als „Schnittstelle zwischen freier Improvisation und dem Geist des punkbeeinflussten Rock’n’Roll“ (Glide Magazin).
Nach einer erfolgreichen Europatournee mit über 150 Konzerte präsentieren die Musiker jetzt das Nachfolgealbum „Deface The Currency“, das den Vorgänger in Sachen Energie, Sound und Songwriting noch übertrifft. Zunächst war gar nicht geplant, für ein volles Album ins Studio zu gehen, sondern lediglich mit einigen Aufnahmen zu dokumentieren, wie sich die musikalische Chemie des Quartetts während der Tour weiterentwickelt hatte. Die Band kontaktierte ihren Toningenieur Don Godwin und buchte ein paar Tage im Tonal Park Studio in Takoma Park, Maryland, wo auch die Aufnahmen für „The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis“ entstanden waren. „Der Hauptgrund war, den Moment nicht verstreichen zu lassen, an dem die Band gerade emotional und musikalisch so gut harmoniert“, erinnert sich Schlagzeuger Brendan Canty. Doch sobald die Sessions begonnen hatten, wurde klar, dass die Gruppe bereit war, ihr zweites Album zu veröffentlichen.
„Deface The Currency“ demonstriert, wie sehr die Band sich zu einer beeindruckenden Einheit entwickelt hat, die mehr denn je mit komplexen Unisono-Linien, kantigen Melodien und kraftvollen Improvisationen beeindruckt. Das Album beweist, dass Cantys Intuition richtig war: Durch das gemeinsame Spiel Abend für Abend hatte das Quartett neue musikalische Gefilde erreicht. „Die Band hat sich zu etwas Eigenständigem entwickelt“, sagt der Schlagzeuger, „zu einem Kollektiv, einer echten Band.“
Anthony Pirog, Gitarre
Joe Lally, Bass
Brendan Canty, Schlagzeug
James Brandon Lewis, Saxophon
Aufgenommen von Don Godwin im Tonal Park, Takoma Park, Maryland
Produziert von Don Godwin, The Messthetics und James Brandon Lewis
The Messthetics
are an instrumental trio featuring Brendan Canty (drums), Joe Lally (bass), and Anthony Pirog (guitar).
Brendan Canty and Joe Lally were the rhythm section of the band Fugazi from its inception in 1987 to its period of hiatus in 2002. This is the first band they’ve had together since then. Anthony Pirog is a jazz and experimental guitarist based in Washington, D.C. One half of the duo Janel & Anthony, he has emerged as a primary figure in the city’s out-music community.
The trio’s debut includes nine songs recorded at Canty’s practice space throughout 2017, live and mostly without overdubs. It’s a snapshot of a band dedicated to the live ideal, where structure gives birth to improvisation.
James Brandon Lewis
(b.1983 Buffalo NY) is a critically acclaimed saxophonist, composer, recording artist and educator . Lewis has received accolades from New York Times, Q Magazine and cultural tastemakers such as Ebony Magazine, who hailed him as one of the "7 Young Players to Watch" in todays scene. Lewis has shared stages with Ken Filiano, Darius Jones, and Jason Hwang, William Parker, Hamiet Bluiett, Hamid Drake, Ravi Coltrane, Jimmy Heath Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Joe Lovano Dave Douglas, Marc Ribot, Anthony Coleman and many others. James Brandon Lewis Lewis has been endorsed by Jazz legend Saxophonist Sonny Rollins " Promising young player with the potential to do great things having listened to the Elders". - Jazz Magazine (France). New York Times had this to say about Lewis" James Brandon Lewis, A Jazz Saxophonist in his 30's, Raw Toned But Measured, Doesn't sound steeped in current jazz academy values There's an Independence about him." James Brandon Lewis Leads numerous ensembles and is the Co- Founder of Poetry Music Ensemble Heroes Are Gang Leaders Lewis attended Howard University and holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts."
“James Brandon Lewis, a jazz saxophonist in his 30s, raw-toned but measured, doesn’t sound steeped in current jazz-academy values and isn’t really coming from a free-improvising perspective. There’s an independence about him, and on “Days of FreeMan” (Okeh), he makes it sound natural to play roaming, experimental funk, with only the electric bassist Jamaladeen Tacuma and the drummer Rudy Royston, and without much sonic enhancement. The record sounds a little reminiscent of what James Blood Ulmer and Ornette Coleman were doing in the late ’70s and early ’80s — on records that included Mr. Tacuma — but it’s not clearly evoking a particular past. Maybe it’s an improvised take on early ’90s hip-hop, as Mr. Lewis has suggested, but it sounds less clinical than that. It sounds like three melodic improvisers going for it.” — The New York Times
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