Built around the tireless energy of drummer Malcolm Catto, The Heliocentrics dabble on the outer orbits of soul-jazz with a gravitational pull that fuses the noisy, extraterrestrial vision of Sun Ra and the boom-bap funk of producers like DJ Shadow. On Fallen Angels, The Heliocentrics collect onto CD some of their previously LP-only releases, thus filling out a discography of one of jazz's newest inventors of deranged, wobbly eccentricities. Supplied with a sitar, saz, Turkish vocalist and intricate polyrhythms, "Distant Star" opens the album with a decidedly Middle-Eastern bent, only to get updated a track later with the sharp lyrics by Percee P and MF Doom stream of conscious flow. 'The Gorn" pushes a dissonances at every turn and break, but stays with the lines of its raw, funky flute soul, while "Vibrations Of The Fallen Angels" seems to stuff numerous genres into a whirling blender (psych, sitar-funk, avant-garde and piano jazz), yet inexplicable remains a listenable head trip. Not for the unadventurous, but if you can imagine the noir of Portishead shaken up slightly with free-form jazz, then consider this your new elixir.
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