Joe Armon-Jones is a musician of many hats — keyboardist, composer, producer, report label proprietor and member of Ezra Collective — and contemporary off the September launch of Ezra Collective’s Dance, No One’s Watching, he’s again along with his first solo LP in six years: All of the Quiet. Spanning 20 tracks, All of the Quiet will probably be launched in two installments, with “Half I” touching down on March 28 and “Half II” releasing June 13.
As a scholar of dub music, Armon-Jones spent a lot of the COVID lockdowns in 2020 educating himself tips on how to use a mixing desk, the identical software utilized by pioneers of the style like King Tubby. His ardour led him to create a complete at-home setup with every part from reel-to-reel tape machines to spring reverb, and he’d then check out the recordings on the booming Unit 137 sound system in London’s Lewisham neighborhood. “I bought actually into exploring the soundworld of dub,” he explains. “Taking that course of and making use of it to jazz, funk, and all the opposite music that I actually love.”
Although All of the Quiet was written, produced and combined fully by Armon-Jones, it options an all-star forged of supporters together with Nubya Garcia in addition to his Ezra Collective bandmates James Mollison and Ife Ogunjobi. After 4 days of recording dwell instrumentation, Armon-Jones went into the lab so as to add, tweak and chop, making use of signature dub results like delay and echo.
Forward of All of the Quiet Half I‘s March launch, Armon-Jones has additionally launched “Kingfisher,” the primary single from the venture, which options West London dub poet Asheber.
Moreover its streaming launch, All of the Quiet will probably be accessible by way of a wide range of deluxe vinyl editions, one in every of which will probably be accompanied by a comic book e book. Pre-orders will open quickly, so within the meantime you’ll be able to take a look at the “Kingfisher” video above and revisit our 2022 profile of Ezra Collective throughout their three-day residency at New York Metropolis’s famed Blue Be aware jazz membership.
