Outside World - OUTSIDE WORLD 3

Outside World, the acclaimed Los Angeles experimental jazz duo consisting of multi-instrumentalists Henry Solomon and Logan Kane, released their third in a trilogy of mind-bending opuses, Outside World 3, on April 5th, 2024. The record features 12 original compositions alongside four generations of jazz mentors and friends, including Roy McCurdy, David Binney, Louis Cole, Chris Fishman, Jon Hatamiya, Luca Mendoza, Paul Cornish, and Benjamin Ring.

Outside World 3’s compositions were primarily written in the past year but span the duo’s near-decade as collaborators. They produced it by exchanging Sibelius and Logic files, tweaking their instruments with playful use of effect pedals and midi programming within structures that bounce from the tender balladry of “Golden Age” to the schizophrenic pop-punk fuckery of “Tacos Tamix”.

The record emerges from the current LA-jazz renaissance, molded by the future-oriented DIY of Minaret and likeminded labels, proffering an apocalyptic fusion that borrows as much from Jamaaladeen Tacuma or Anthony Braxton as it does from the hyperpop fixations of Yasutaka Nakata or the most far-out techno on The New Dance Sound of Detroit.

CREDITS

Music: Henry Solomon & Logan Kane
Mixing/mastering: Maximillian Sink
Artwork design/drawings by Pedro Bello
Photography by Jolson Diaz
Assisted by Richard Smith
Leaf Blower by Nicole McCabe
Limousine Driving by Eric Solorio

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