According to hamid drake the rhythm was popularized, if not originated, by john “jabo” starks & clyde stubblefield of the J.B.’s. Astute heads may recognize the rhythm in “sideways fall” as jaki leibezeit's drum break in can’s “vitamin c.” at abrams behest the two drummers divided the beat into separate parts. The metallic shaker sound sometimes heard in the center of the stereo image is the rattle attached to abrams’s guimbri. On simultonality, avery is in the left channel, rosaly the right. Abrams credits the great bassist & composer william parker as an inspiration for this intention.the musicians on simultonality date back to the nascency of NIS. Its many moving parts function in mutualistic relationship toward fulfilling abrams's long stated intention for the project: to help listener’s achieve a meditative center & to consciously use music as a gateway to living. While so teeming & tightly packed as to sometimes seem impossible to parse, the music is at no time any more disorderly than a colony of bees pollinating a vast garden.
Much of it is also fast (“the last record was slow”), a mass of densely patterned elements swiftly orbiting constantly reconfiguring centers that are variously harmonic & rhythmic, clearly stated or implied. But where abrams once said magnetoception is about “winter & death,” simultonality -in abrams's words- is an album of “pure motion.” without sounding frenetic it is the most explosive NIS music on record, & without sounding over-determined it is abrams's most structured & thru-composed music yet.
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