Body Meta cover

Body Meta

Released

Coleman’s harmolodic theory is ultimately about independence: individual instruments playing in relative keys and time signatures but not being controlled by a motif or mode. Body Meta puts the weight of that action on the guitars of Bern Nix and Charlie Ellerbee and the electric bass of Jamaaladeen Tacuma. Drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson is in a relatively easy-going mode here, close to New Orleans second line, and Ornette provides some of his sweetest and simplest tunes. The three string players engrave a series of interlocking shuffles and downstrokes and noodles and wires. This is a bubbler.

Sasha Frere-Jones

Recommended by

Suggestions
Get Lost V cover

Get Lost V

Various Artists, Acid Pauli
A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke cover

A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke

Wadada Leo Smith, Vijay Iyer
Open cover

Open

The Necks
Night’s Quietest Hour cover

Night’s Quietest Hour

Gordon Grdina, Marc Ribot
Dysnomia cover

Dysnomia

Dawn of Midi
Snakeoil cover

Snakeoil

Tim Berne
Amassed cover

Amassed

Spring Heel Jack