Liberation & the Kingdom of Nri, by Industrial Revelation

Liberation & the Kingdom of Nri

by Industrial Revelation

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Gregory Jaspan Industrial Revelation are my favorite band in the world right now, and I don't mean just my favorite jazz band. The four members who comprise IR are all world-class musicians, but what sets them apart from so many other jazz bands is that they are also extremely creative, fantastic composers. The sheer dynamic range and scope of their music is so rarely found in today's music. Go see them live if you have the opportunity. It's a truly incredible, joyous experience. Favorite track: Exit from the Morass.

Tom Dyer This is an all time great album! Favorite track: Liberation.

Fritz Marial This is Seattle Jazz, broad, beautiful, joyous, deep. Favorite track: Voice Memo: Beautiful.

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1.	Introduction: Mighty Nation 01:14	info
2.	Liberation 06:22	info
3.	Amelia 05:06	info
4.	Voice Memo: Night Love 02:11	info
5.	FunGirl 06:11	info
6.	Exit from the Morass 03:36	info
7.	Voice Memo: Beautiful 01:59
8.	First Dance 03:33	lyrics
Verse 1: When I saw you I knew you’d be My first and last It was more than just romance When you reached for my hand It was more than I could stand I’m here on cloud 9 Like I’m dreaming out of time Chorus: Let’s go out and let our spirits’ free Like there’s no one standing here but you and me Living out loud as we dance on the floor My hand in yours forever more Verse 2: The chills I can’t deny When I look into your eyes My stomach fills right up With butterflies I feel like I’ve been swept off my feet And darling it's sublime Baby, you gotta know The music’s got me feeling oh so fine Chorus: Let’s go out and let our spirits’ free Like there’s no one standing here but you and me Living out loud as we dance on the floor My hand in yours forever more
9.	I Jam 4U, My Love 02:18	info
10.	Old Man Soul 06:55	info
11.	Wait. No. Sound. 05:33	info
12.	There's a Fire 06:20	info
13.	Man from Obibi 04:26	info
14.	Interlude: Are We Safer in Chains 01:52	info
15.	Lord, Let This Be the Last Time 04:11	info
16.	Ellison Ellington 01:01	info
17.	PopKing 04:54	info
18.	No Way Out but In 04:12	info
19.	Voice Memo: Yours 02:26	info
20.	HYPED! 06:03	info
21.	End of Courtesy 05:49	info
22.	Wet Shoes 04:31	info

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Ten years after Seattle-based DIY jazz sensation Industrial Revelation came swinging into being, the powerful combo of D’Vonne Lewis, Evan Flory-Barnes, Ahamefule J. Oluo, and Josh Rawlings have delivered their most realized document to date: Liberation & the Kingdom of Nri. A couple ideas that had been gestating turned into unexpectedly tight demos turned into the unexpected tumbling-out of a pile of their best work to date—just as a year-long swell in the group’s profile (taking The Stranger’s 2014 Genius Award for music, for one) saw the quartet playing and wordlessly communicating on a new level. A humble, understated grandeur is a quality they all share, a commitment to exploration, not of some nebulous outer limits, but inner depths most shy from and deny. It’s the literal unearthing of those depths’ bounty that even inspired the album name. The centuries-ahead-of-their time bronze artifacts found in Igbo-Ukwu (a region of what’s now Nigeria) by accident in the first half of the 20th century were made with such advanced techniques that European (and Eurocentric) historians refused to believe they could in fact be the work of the Nri, a thousand-year-old nation unique in history in that they grew not by war, but by voluntary allegiance—including rejects and ex-slaves. Treasures of antiquity, a people’s legacy, the assaults of white hegemony—liberation.
– Larry Mizell Jr.

credits

released October 10, 2015

Evan Flory-Barnes (Upright Bass)
D'Vonne Lewis (Drums, Vocals on "Introduction: Mighty Nation")
Ahamefule J. Oluo (Trumpet, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Percussion, Effects)
Josh Rawlings (Fender Rhodes, Piano, Synthesizer, Accordion)

Additional Personnel:
Grace Love (Vocals on "First Dance," "Introduction: Mighty Nation," "There's a Fire"
Jeff Coffin (Saxophones on "No Way Out But In"
Alex Guy, Brianna Atwell, and Maria Scherer Wilson (Strings on "HYPED!")
Jeff Busch (Percussion on "PopKing")
Thione Diop (Tama on "Man from Obibi")
Jon Hansen (Tuba on "Voice Memo: Beautiful")

Produced by Industrial Revelation and Ahamefule J. Oluo

Recorded at Robert Land Studios, Oak Head, and Dub Narcotic Studios

All compositions by Industrial Revelation
Engineered by Homero Gonzalez, Sam Anderson, Ahamefule J. Oluo, and Paul Krogh
Edited by Ahamefule J. Oluo
Mixed by Josh Evans, Sam Anderson, and Evan Schiller
Mastered by Homero Gonzalez
Cover art, "After another visit from Sirius B," by Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, photographed by Futsum Tsegai
Band photo by Kelly O
Liner notes by Larry Mizell Jr.
Layout and design by Emily Nokes and Ahamefule J. Oluo

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