About

Magnificent meditative / shamanistic / ambient / improvisational offering from Liran Donin on double bass and shakers, and Idris Rahman on bass clarinet, tenor sax, shells, and Tibetan singing bowl — both members of the acclaimed ensemble Ill Considered. Original artwork by Vincent de Boer. — (via Label)

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Idris Rahman - Bass Clarinet, Tenor Sax, Shells,Tibetan Singing Bowl.
Liran Donin - Double bass, Shakers.

"From shamanic cultures and forgotten traditions , we delved deeper searching our ancient healers, exploring who they heal, what they heal, and how they do it. We wanted to focus on the poisonous human attributes that affect our animal kingdom, as well as how we can heal ourselves by balancing darkness and light. We express our forever gratitude to our community, tribe and animal kingdom.

Despite how governments and multinational corporations try to isolate us from one another, we can't make it alone without our shoal. To truly have a shoal, we need to accept each other for what we are."  — Idris Rahman + Liran Donin

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"The living world and all its particular (eco)systems s increasingly a source of inspiration for my art process. When Idris and Liran showed me the new recording and the thoughts behind it, it immediately fell onto good grounds. A school of fish is eminently a metaphor for collective improvisation, something we are all engaged in on an artistic level. The group decisions go beyond causality, the energies provide a simultaneous awareness for choices of direction. The space between the entities thus form a new entity. Non matter becomes matter and visa versa: an area where music and visual art meet.

I drew a school of fish and tried to make it look like a fixed entity, so that multiple lives become one collective. As a bird and perhaps as a rock or cave: outside becomes inside becomes outside: so that all domains of the living world are linked: the swimming, the crawling, the flying and the playing. The spiritual connection with the music of Idris and Liran is grand, the places it takes me are at once very distant and extremely close. From otherworldly to within the body: the opposites as well as the harmonies are of shamanistic proportions." — Vincent De Boer // Artwork

Vinyl tracklist - link to Bandcamp:
A1 Serpent
A2 Leviathan
A3 Hanu
B1 Hyenas
B2 Mother Bear

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Label: We Release Jazz
Format: Vinyl, LP, 180g
Released: 2025
Genre: Jazz
Style: Spiritual Jazz, Ambient

File under: Jazz // Spiritual Jazz
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