I Hold the Lion’s Paw
“as if the Muppets wandered into a Sun Ra rehearsal and never left”
“a beguiling stew of afro-beat, jazz-rock-inflected postbop, and electro-acoustic noise.”
— The Wire
Jon Hassell meets Ornette Coleman, meets Laurie Anderson. Formed in 2016 by ARIA nominated trumpeter-producer Reuben Lewis, I Hold the Lion’s Paw have embraced a radical, genre-fluid approach that is uninterested in adopting any particular idiom or norm. Their third studio album, Potentially Interesting Jazz Music, is as bold and unpredictable as its title suggests.
“Danceable, infectious, and the inevitable deconstructions are subtle – ★★★★”
“More likely was the feeling of having stumbled into someone else’s LSD trip”
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