LLOYD MILLER&THE HELIOCENTRICS

Following their award-winning collaboration with Ethio jazz Godfather?Mulatu Astatke (Mojo magazine Top 50 of the year 2009, Sunday Times?World Music Album of the year), pioneering UK collective The Heliocentries?resurfaces alongside another fascinating Jazz enigma, elhnomusicologist,?jazz maestro and multi?instrumentalist, lloyd Miller.?Learning various instruments and immersing himself in New Orleans?jazz through his father, a professional clarinet player, Lloyd Miller first?trained himself in the styles of George lewis and Jimmy Giuffre and cut?his first Dixieland jazz 78 rpm record in 1950. During the late '50s, his?father landed a job in Iran and Miller began to develop a lifelong interest?in Persian and Eastern music fonns, learning to playa vast array of?traditional ethnic instruments from across Asia and the Middle East.?He toured Europe heavily, basing himself in SWitzerland, Belgium,?Sweden, Germany (where he played with Eddie Harris and Don Ellis)?and, most famously, in Paris where he worked with oddball bandleader?Jef Gilson, a phenomenon in French jazz during the early '60s. Miller?retumed to the Middle East during the '70s, landing his own TV show on?NIRTV in Tehran under the name Kurosh Ali Khan. His show became a?national fixture and ran for seven years.??Miller has since been a vocal ambassador for preserving the traditions?of many forms of Eastem music. In recent years, his mid-'60s album?'Oriental Jazz' has become a collector's favourite and the UK's Jazzman?label have issued a compilation, 'A Lifetime In Oriental Jazz', covering?work from across his career. The renewed interest in his music has?spawned this new collaboration with The Heliocentrics, a freeform mix?of Eastem arrangements, jazz and angular psychedelics and reprs-.?sents the Heliocentrics' most accomplished work to date. Tracks include?the reflective, yeaming 'Spirit Jazz', a new version of Miller classic?'Massom' and the cinematic 'Electricone'.??SIMILAR ARTISTS:?Cinematic Orchestra, Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra, Salah?Ragab, Jazzman, Tribe Records, Strata East, Sublime Frequencies,?Honest Jons??TRACKLIST?01 ELECTRICONE?02 NAVA?03 PARI RUU?04 SALENDRO?OS SPIRIT JAZZ?06 MODALITY?07 RAIN DANCE?08 LLOYD LETS LOOSE?09 BALI BRONZE?10 CUZCO?11 CHARHARGAH?12 SUNDA SUNSET