Daniel Villarreal – Lados B

TRACKS:

A1 Traveling With
A2 Sunset Cliffs
A3 Republic
A4 Chicali Outpost
A5 Bring It
B1 Salute
B2 Daytime Nighttime
B3 Things Can Be Calm
B4 Rug Motif

DESCRIPTION

Lados B is a deep dive into the high-level spontaneous music made by Villarreal, Parker, and Butterss across those two days in 2020. Villarreal is heard leading the group through various rhythmic modes and structures for improvisation – flow as informed by the Latin funk of Fania Records as it is by the otherworldly humanity trance of Brain Records – while Parker and Butterss draw on their extensive experience playing free together (as heard on Parker's recently-released Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy, and the LA side of Makaya McCraven's 2018 LP Universal Beings) to build harmonic buoys for their spontaneous melodicism. The result is a beautifully vivid illustration of context, creativity, and collective composition from a particularly rich moment in history.