#Mike Reed

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Mike Reed. Smokin

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Listen to: Your Soul by Mike Reed

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Paint Groove #122 “Autumn Lullaby”

1. The Golden Lamp - Pharoah Sanders

2. Flamengo Até Morrer - Marcos Valle

3. Floating With an Intimate Stranger - Mike Reed, Ben LaMar Gay, Bitchin Bajas, Marvin Tate

4. YOU'LL NEVER GET TO HEAVEN - Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes

5. Quando O Carnaval Chegar - Quarteto Em Cy

6. Gloriosa - Amaro Freitas, Brandee Younger

7. Space 7 - Nala Sinephro

8. La Forma del Esqueleto - Diles que no me maten

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Mike Reed "Floating With an Intimate Stranger" (Official Video)

https://astralseparatistparty.bandcamp.com/album/the-separatist-party

[dustedmagazine]

Mike Reed — The Separatist Party (Astral Spirits)

Photo by Liina Raud

Well into our fourth year living with COVID, the effects remain. People continue to suffer long-term medical consequences, cycle through repeat infections and negotiate the breakdown of civility gnawing at the heart of social and political life. The Separatist Party is the first of a trio of collaborative albums on which Chicago drummer and composer Mike Reed explores seclusion and isolation. Cornetist Ben LaMar Gay, multi-instrumentalists Rob Frye, Cooper Crain and Dan Quinlivan from Bitchin Bajas join Reed on tracks which flow easily over Reed’s dexterous rhythms. Poet Marvin Tate adds a gritty presence as he moves between rough improvised soul and browbeating spoken word.

Opener “Your Soul” builds from a minimalist South African rhythm with circular keyboard and guitar motifs as Tate riffs around the line “Your soul is a mosh pit” an intensely energetic contrast to the easy lope of the music. Frye’s tenor and Gay’s cornet helm “A Low Frequency Nightmare” trading licks over woozy keyboards and Reed’s drums which build from a straight-ahead almost komische drive into a syncopated excursion around his kit. On “Hold Me” Gay nags and wheedles as Tate’s exhortations to touch, talk, understand and his kiss-off lines, “The truth is layered, layered/bone, flesh and politic/You never like the way I kissed/and I never cared for your race play/too predictable and historically inaccurate” capture miscommunication that slides too quicky into dispute. The tonal difference between this and tracks like “Floating with an Intimate Stranger” “Our Own Love Language” in which Frye’s flute, Crain’s guitar and Gay’s cornet trace filigreed windmills in the pastoral air can be jarring but The Separatist Party works as a mosaic of mood and styles that demonstrate the often contradictory emotional and artistic responses to common experience.

Across a range of styles that mirror the musical range of the participants, Reed and company find ways to meld their influences into a cohesive whole. Tate’s declamatory poetry hits hard, but the essence of this project lies in the reciprocity of the sextet’s playing. Each member maintains their identity and brings it forth in service of the whole in a display of mutual respect that provides a pathway back into the world. A powerful lesson indeed.

Andrew Forell

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Mike Reed, "Floating with an Intimate Stranger" #NowPlaying

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Silker Eberhard/Ben Lamar Gay/Mike Reed at We Jazz Festival 2022 Helsinki

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Early 1990s Fantastic Four poster by comics artist Mike Mignola.

Also used years later as the cover of Fantastic Four Ashcan #1 (1994)...

...and decades later as a variant cover for Empyre Vol.1 #6 (2020).

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Where’s the Homicide: Life on the Street fandom? Fan since 2006 and now watching again since it’s on Peacock! The best show

Also if you like this you’re free to message me I need to fangirl over my latest hyperfixation

[myvinylplaylist]

Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion II (1991)

Clear tape shells and jewel case and multi-panel J-Card.

Parental Advisory sticker on front of jewel case.

Jewel case has a 'uni' logo embossed on back.

Geffen Records

[deatwithdignity]

both legends meeting for the first time in the final seasons of their shows

[616witch]

you're the only thing i want to think about.

5 favourite comic book ships: reedsue [4/5]

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[cameronhcwes]

HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET (1993-1999) 5.14 — Diener

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Mike Wieringo was a genius.