User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
- Record Label: Pi Recordings
- Release Date: Mar 26, 2013
- Summary: Saxophonist Steve Coleman returns with Jonathan Finlayson, Miles Okazaki, Sean Rickman, and Anthony Tidd backing him on the release inspired by the functions of the human body.
Buy Now
- Record Label: Pi Recordings
- Genre(s): Jazz
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 5 out of 5
-
Mixed: 0 out of 5
-
Negative: 0 out of 5
-
May 9, 2013This is the most exciting and substantial Coleman release of the last few years, rigorously challenging, pumped with insinuating melodies, sleek with propulsive energies and pulsating with a uniquely globular funkiness.
-
May 9, 2013While some of the ascetically curt melodies, edgily avant-funky grooves and impassively entwined counterpoint are familiar Coleman traits, the music is several degrees warmer: full of sparky ensemble writing, varied percussion sounds and vivacious grooves.
-
May 9, 2013This is tangled funk with a higher calling, furious mainly in its focus.
-
Oct 21, 2013Functional Arrhythmias moves briskly through these terse, but usually quite rich pieces.
-
May 9, 2013This music has plenty of range and intelligence even in its cool reserve.