Deface The Currency 7872328 Featuring the Ellington band with

Featuring the Ellington band with Jimmy Jones on piano and Billy Strayhorn as bandleader and arranger

the very beginning of the album starts with a reversed iPhone recording of me improvising a melody on this piano and ends with this same recording playing forwards

2LP set cut at 45rpm

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Deface The Currency 7872328 Featuring the Ellington band withThe Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis return with Deface the Currency, their second collaboration and a striking leap forward in intensity, scale and ambition. Recorded straight after a European tour, the album captures a group transformed by constant motion, with engineer Don Godwin bottling the impact of a band sharpened by relentless live performance. The music is expansive and volatile, built from tightly locked melodic lines, sudden ruptures