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In The Flow

by Mister Ott (Mr Ott)

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1.
Kleeer 02:39
2.
Steam 05:26
3.
Walk n Talk 06:47
4.
Gold Chain 04:47
5.
Highway One 04:53
6.
Bad Actor 09:36
7.
Pintupi 84 05:49

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For the past two decades, New Zealand saxophonist Matthew Ottignon has honed his skills and vision through a string of shape-shifting solo projects and collaborations. Now he’s turned up on Urban Trout (label of brother Aron) with “In The Flow”, a new album from his Australian outfit Mister Ott. The music is Afrofunk-informed boogie, the album a languid ice-melter, engineered to beam groovy, defogging solace and soul-warming slabs.

It all starts with the slap-n-brass-laden dub-funk of “Kleeer”, taking us to another dimension of vaporous daze with its cartel of hip hop-laced drums and jaunty Rhodes, before “Steam" embarks us on a further guitar-strewn, highly dynamic voyage across Ethiopian jazz-infused sonic horizons. Showing off its playfully syncopated swagger, "Walk N Talk" merges a skittish drumwork with dusty synths and moody trumpets out of a neo-noir detective flick shrouded in meditative oneirism.

Pulling out the frenzied congas and fluttering 70's melodies, “Gold Chain” attacks, pedal to the metal, blazing with drums reminiscent of the mastered tribalism of Tony Allen’s compositions. More Skank by essence, “Highway One” is a straight nod to Mulatu Astatke and the Ethiopian jazz scene. Exuding pure spiritual elevation through its symbiotic rhythmic entanglements, the track runs the gamut from muted, introspective melancholia to head-on exaltation of the senses.

Nodding to the dubbed out sensualism of Blaxploitation soundtracks, coated with a hint of pure aboriginal psychedelia, “Bad Actor” drapes us in thick shrouds of mind-expanding retro voodoo funk. The final cut is “Pintupi 84”, name checking the story of the Pintupi Nine, a family of aboriginals discovered in 1984 still living a traditional hunter/gatherer life in the remote Australian desert. The track echoes Jon Hassell’s Fourth World sound, fusing a sense of spiritual elation with moving harmonics that evoke the beauty, mystery and violence inherent in the repeated collisions between the modern and ancient worlds.

credits

released February 26, 2021

Matthew Ottignon - tenor and bari saxes
Ellen Kirkwood - trumpet and flugelhorn
Daniel Pliner - keys
Ben Panucci - guitar
Dave Symes - bass
Carlos Adura - drums and percussion
Dom Kirk - congas, bata and percussion

Recorded, edited and mixed Jan-Aug 2020
Engineered and mixed by Richie Belkner at Free Energy Device, Sydney, Australia by Richie B
Mastered by Michael Lynch
Produced by Matthew Ottignon

Records label: Urban Trout Records UTR006
Record Label: Earshift Music distributed by MGM (Aus, NZ, North America, Japan)

© Matthew Ottignon 2021

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Mister Ott (Mr Ott) Sydney, Australia

Mister Ott takes you on a journey, to another place and time where you lose yourself in the music.
Their music merges mesmerising eastern sounds, tight jazz funk, hypnotic grooves with melismatic horn lines and high calibre ecstatic solos.

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