What You Will

by Ahleuchatistas

Overview

Experimental, progressive, avant-garde--or what you will. The North Carolina guitar, bass, and drums trio Ahleuchatistas aim to blow away tidy preconceptions about what constitutes jazz and rock, as well as about what a musician's role in society should be. With their second album, WHAT YOU WILL, they recall politically aware 1960s and '70s U.K. artists like Soft Machine and Derek Bailey, with track titles like "Remember Rumsfeld At Abu Ghraib" and "Ho Chi Minh Is Gonna Win!" as well as conjuring the glory days of prog pioneers like Captain Beefheart's Magic Band. But though the Ahleuchatistas' music may superficially appear difficult, it never sinks to self-indulgence; tracks like "Before the Law" and "Sometimes There's a Buggy" maintain both structure and coherence, and frequently possess an ethereal beauty.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/31/2006
Label:	Cuneiform Records
UPC:	0045775022123
Rank:	211470

Tracks

1. Remember Rumsfeld at Abu Ghraib
2. Shell in Ogoniland
3. Maybe Orange
4. Unfolding
5. Sherman's March
6. Sometimes There's a Buggy
7. If, Whenever
8. Ho Chi Minh Is Gonna Win!
9. Before the Law
10. I Used to Be Just Like You, But Now I Am Just Like Me
11. Now, Now Is Then
12. Last Spark from God
13. What Are You Gonna Do?
14. You Know My Family

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Ahleuchatistas   Primary Artist
Sean Dail   Drums
Derek Poteat   Bass
Shane Perlowin   Guitar

Technical Credits

Ahleuchatistas   Composer
Brad Blackwood   Mastering