You can hear it before it’s been said, and before you hear it, the space for its anticipation is someplace you’re already in. And if you were there, you would have seen it, taking place, taking shape, becoming, between them, an event, no less a body than a route, no more a method than a calling or a having been called, an affirmation of the phantasmatic nature of the divide separating the arrhythmia of improvised music from dance music’s foundational investment in the number four. An affirmation which is also an affective, questing, generative disinvestment in this opposition, a negation set in motion by a trialogical listening and playing into materiality new conjunctures of space, time, thought and sound. (Edward George, 2024) ----- YESYESPEAKERSYES is the first vinyl release of the remarkable collaboration between Chicago foot-work founder Kavain Wayne Space (aka RPBoo) and London duo experiment XT (drummer Paul Abbott and saxophonist Seymour Wright). The trio’s synthesis of rhythms, sounds, strategies, technologies and traditions collapse genre, distance, boundaries and preconceptions into a total, and totally unique, brain-body music. Its two 15-minute vinyl sides are cut from a 60-minute live set at Cafe OTO, London on Friday 8th October, 2021 also available as digital download. This was the fourth meeting of the trio followed, instead of being followed by*, an RPBoo DJ set. Each time the trio play it pushes further into new technical, emotional and creative space. The collaboration needs ears, instruments, imaginations and bodies to be used in new ways. This need is transformative. Together they – and we – learn. This unique trio combination is rooted in deep conceptual foundations, that push into real and imaginary spaces of innovation and learning in a creative practice of 'interruption' far beyond genres or what is supposed to be. And what emerges each time is a trio technology - a total dance technology for any and all bodies. Kavain, Paul and Seymour share a fascination with the musical history of Chicago – a source of which is of continual nourishment to their ongoing practice. While Kavain’s pioneering footwork work develops the rhythmic structures of Chicago house and the samples, grooves and melodies of 60’s/70’s Chicago soul, disco and R&B, Seymour and Paul share a fascination with these musics, and bring to this lineage a long-term engagement with Chicago’s jazz traditions, from Baby Dodds to the AACM through their unique prism of club, dance, free-jazz and improvised club structures, technologies and musics. *A first digital-only release of the second NYE-party meeting is available at soundcloud.com/cafeoto/ds134-xt-rp-boo-311218 . ----- released March 15, 2024 Kavain Wayne Space/XT (Paul Abbott + Seymour Wright) – Trio ----- Kavain Wayne Space – CDJs Paul Abbott – real and imaginary drums Seymour Wright – actual and potential saxophone ----- Recorded live Friday October 8th, 2021, at Cafe OTO, London Recorded by Shaun Crook Mixed by Billy Steiger Mastered by Amir Shoat Cover paintings by Benedict Drew Thank you – Fielding Hope, Jackson Burton. Feedback Moves 2024 - FM5 all rights reserved