Artist: Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt Duo
Album: The Discipline of Assent
Genre: Jazz, Fusion
Release Date: 2020
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 44,1 kHz
Duration: 37:13
Total Tracks: 9
Total Size: 406 MB

Tracklist:

1. Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt Duo – Flails & Strands (05:01)
2. Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt Duo – A New Arrival (03:17)
3. Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt Duo – Aurelius Dye (03:19)
4. Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt Duo – Setenta y Tres (02:03)
5. Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt Duo – Sequoia Sketch (03:17)
6. Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt Duo – The Slip (02:28)
7. Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt Duo – The Short Sun (02:45)
8. Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt Duo – Random Treasures (03:54)
9. Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt Duo – Mountain Montage (11:03)

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Martin Rude (Sun River) & Jakob Skøtt (Causa Sui) team up for a genre-defying record that was recorded during an exceptional session on March 3rd 2020. Martin brought his Double Bass, Acoustic & Baritone guitar into the studio of Causa Sui, where Jakob’s drums were already miked & prepped by soundwiz Jonas Munk, freshly tuned from the new Causa Sui recordings. The music they played ranges from sprawled out pre-fusion electric jazz to psychedelic folk ragas. After the sessions, the hours of free floating music was edited & dubbed by Jakob Skøtt into shorter cohesive segments, but maintaining the improvised vibe of these first takes.It is a record that pays homage to the great innovators of jazz: Miles & Trane (or perhaps more fittingly their peak-drummers: Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette & Elvin Jones), as well as Mingus at his fiercest or Sun Ra at his most exotic. Not merely a tribute, the album doubles down with guitar pickings ala John Fahey & Sandy Bull, as well as sparse layers of oddly-tempered mallet percussion and synthesizers. But perhaps the closest reference isn’t something of a certain place in time, but rather a free flowing ethos of stoic proportions: letting happen what it may, turning the accidents and mistakes along the way into something vital.