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ARTIST
DIABOLICAL LIBERTIES, THE
TITLE
High Protections & The Sportswear Mystics
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
ON THE CORNER RECORDS
CATALOG #
OTCR 011LP
OTCR 011LP
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
11/20/2020
The Diabolical Liberties
release their debut album
High Protection & The Sportswear Mystics
via the boundary-breaking On The Corner Records label. Comprising
Rob Gallagher
(vocals, guitar, bass) and
Alex Patchwork
(head of squarepushing), the duo's debut long player is a rough, unpolished gem of a record that falls clumsily in the gaps between post-punk, electronica, and jazz. Lead single "Sliders" embodies this identity crisis, simultaneously honoring and deriding the ubiquity of said footwear over resonant breakbeats, plonking cowbell and the screeching horn of
Ignacio Salvadores
(
King Krule
,
Gal Go
). Elsewhere, the brilliant
Emma Jean Thackray
sprinkles "High Protection" with cosmic dust, "Bigger Than You" is a ramshackle (but no less respectful) homage to the '70s Ghanaian disco/fusion purveyed by legends like
Ebo Taylor
and
Pat Thomas
. All produced and recorded in a shed, on train platforms, trains, tubes, and occasionally Caffè Nero in Cheam when it was quieter than home.
High Protection & The Sportswear Mystics
follows a series of self-released and long sold-out white label 12"s and 7"s that included collaborations with
Nyasha
(a moniker of
Nubya Garcia
) and a super-limited On The Corner 10" dubplate. All the musical (con)fusion starts to make sense when you take into account Gallagher's long and distinguished career in music. A truly original British voice, he was a stalwart of the mid-80s London jazz scene (centered around the WAG club and Dingwalls) and a key agitator/forerunner of the fusion that was bubbling up. He formed the band
Galliano
in 1987 and was the first signing to
Eddie Piller
and
Gilles Peterson
's now legendary Acid Jazz record label. Sidestepping onto Peterson's freshly minted Talkin' Loud imprint, Galliano's debut album
In Pursuit Of The 13th Note
materialized in 1991 and was an international hit -- effortlessly marrying cosmic funk, blues and an aura inspired by spiritual jazz with a conscious, poetic flow. The don dada
Roy Ayers
contributed vibes and scat. Four albums later in 1997, Gallagher disbanded Galliano and embarked on a solo career as
Earl Zinger
. The following year he formed the jazz/electronic duo
Two Banks of Four
with
Dilip Harris
aka
Demus
, releasing
City Watching
on
Ben Wilcox
's Sirkus label in 2000. Later, in 2012, he was also behind the experimental blues/folk/dub project
William Adamson
on Brownswood Recordings and most recently collaborated with
Emanative
and
Rocketnumber9
on 2013's
Over
EP.
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