In The Flow, by Mister Ott

In The Flow

by Mister Ott

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Fas Where the previous album was relaxed and exploratory, this one is no nonsense funky grooves. Can't stop playing this at work, in the car. Everywhere. This demands a CD release!

stefanoide it makes your day turns in a happy day. really!!! i'm loving mr Ott!! is it the globalization at its best!!

plasterman LOVING this album (and every other Mister Ott album)! Some of my favorite music of all time; it's beautifully rich, fun, and groovy! Favorite track: Bad Actor.

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1.	Kleeer 02:39	buy track
2.	Steam 05:26	buy track
3.	Walk n Talk 06:47	buy track
4.	Gold Chain 04:47	buy track
5.	Highway One 04:53	buy track
6.	Bad Actor 09:36	buy track
7.	Pintupi 84 05:49	buy track

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For the past two decades, New Zealand saxophonist Matthew Ottignon has honed his skills and vision through a string of shape-shifting solo projects and collaborations. Now he’s turned up on Urban Trout (label of brother Aron) with “In The Flow”, a new album from his Australian outfit Mister Ott. The music is Afrofunk-informed boogie, the album a languid ice-melter, engineered to beam groovy, defogging solace and soul-warming slabs.

It all starts with the slap-n-brass-laden dub-funk of “Kleeer”, taking us to another dimension of vaporous daze with its cartel of hip hop-laced drums and jaunty Rhodes, before “Steam" embarks us on a further guitar-strewn, highly dynamic voyage across Ethiopian jazz-infused sonic horizons. Showing off its playfully syncopated swagger, "Walk N Talk" merges a skittish drumwork with dusty synths and moody trumpets out of a neo-noir detective flick shrouded in meditative oneirism.

Pulling out the frenzied congas and fluttering 70's melodies, “Gold Chain” attacks, pedal to the metal, blazing with drums reminiscent of the mastered tribalism of Tony Allen’s compositions. More Skank by essence, “Highway One” is a straight nod to Mulatu Astatke and the Ethiopian jazz scene. Exuding pure spiritual elevation through its symbiotic rhythmic entanglements, the track runs the gamut from muted, introspective melancholia to head-on exaltation of the senses.

Nodding to the dubbed out sensualism of Blaxploitation soundtracks, coated with a hint of pure aboriginal psychedelia, “Bad Actor” drapes us in thick shrouds of mind-expanding retro voodoo funk. The final cut is “Pintupi 84”, name checking the story of the Pintupi Nine, a family of aboriginals discovered in 1984 still living a traditional hunter/gatherer life in the remote Australian desert. The track echoes Jon Hassell’s Fourth World sound, fusing a sense of spiritual elation with moving harmonics that evoke the beauty, mystery and violence inherent in the repeated collisions between the modern and ancient worlds.

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released February 26, 2021

Matthew Ottignon - tenor and bari saxes
Ellen Kirkwood - trumpet and flugelhorn
Daniel Pliner - keys
Ben Panucci - guitar
Dave Symes - bass
Carlos Adura - drums and percussion
Dom Kirk - congas, bata and percussion

Recorded, edited and mixed Jan-Aug 2020
Engineered and mixed by Richie Belkner at Free Energy Device, Sydney, Australia by Richie B
Mastered by Michael Lynch
Produced by Matthew Ottignon

Records label: Urban Trout Records UTR006
Record Label: Earshift Music distributed by MGM (Aus, NZ, North America, Japan)

© Matthew Ottignon 2021

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Matthew Ottignon Sydney, Australia

Matthew Ottignon, hailing from New Zealand and now entrenched in Sydney's vibrant music scene, embodies mastery across all musical realms, boasting undeniable musical lineage.

Mister Ott merges eastern sounds, tight jazz funk, hypnotic grooves with melismatic horn lines and high calibre ecstatic solos.

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