Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery is urgent, sophisticated, and humorous. It actually delivers the music of tomorrow via the traditions of past and present; it's a convulsive exercise in the articulation of inner and outer space.
Shabaka Hutchings, alongside keyboardist Dan Leavers and drummer Max Hallett, have conjured an album as much in love with grime, punk rock and G-funk as it is with the textural longing of classic spiritual jazz, and the result is a wonderfully bracing, forward-facing melting pot.
It’s an exhilarating 45-minute journey, but one that feels more enlightened and cohesive than their scattered, high energy debut.
Trust… is every bit as impressive as The Comet Is Coming's debut. Which is pretty high praise indeed.
‘Trust In the Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery’ pulls us into a space odyssey of new wave jazz, far removed from this world and the next.
Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery is a fine record ... if not quite as far out as it could be.
The Comet Is Coming is doing its part to bring jazz into the next decade.
This is hardcore music for a generation weaned on rave and grime, jazz’s cutting edge. The comet isn’t coming, it’s arrived.
The cosmically minded group featuring rising jazz saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings dances to the apocalypse and pleads for humanity.
So basically...
This shit slaps so much that it slapped the taste out of my mouth and then back into my mouth and now everything tastes better because of how good the funky rhythms and epic drumwork on this album were!
I've been kicking this around for a few days, and yeah this thing is awesome. Some of the most unique and engaging jazz I've heard.
I listen to music that The Bald Man tells me to, The Bald Man is never wrong unless he is in which case we riot.
Ok but jokes aside, i'm glad Anthony introduced me to this album. With a genre like Nu-Jazz, I had literally no idea what to expect with this album. I'm a relative new comer to the world of jazz, let alone it's new contemporary. What journey would this record take me on, I wondered. An ethereal, tech heavy take on classical jazz? A sporadic, off the wall experiment from the future? ... read more
Wow. Wow, wow, wow, that is all I can say for this album.
This is the first album from The Comet is Coming that I have ever listened to. I originally found out about this band through their song Blood of the Past which is one of my favorite songs ever. Ever since then, I've wanted to get around to listening to this group. Now that I have, I am absolutely glad that I did. This album made me feel so many things that I couldn't fit them in this review before my brain would shut down from having ... read more
After loving their 2022 release I finally got into their 2019 project "Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery". Can't say much about it but yeah The Comet is Coming really know hoe to make Nu jazz that is still jazz and not just electronic music. Love it.
1 | Because the End Is Really the Beginning 4:48 | 72 |
2 | Birth of Creation 5:04 | 74 |
3 | Summon the Fire 3:55 | 85 |
4 | Blood of the Past 8:15 feat. Kae Tempest | 90 |
5 | Super Zodiac 4:01 | 83 |
6 | Astral Flying 4:43 | 74 |
7 | Timewave Zero 5:20 | 76 |
8 | Unity 4:13 | 68 |
9 | The Universe Wakes Up 5:25 | 76 |
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