Ed LONGO / THE APPLIED ARTS ENSEMBLE - The Other Fantasy
EARLY SOUND
Balearic / Folk / AORPre-orders LP / 21 EUR
Applied Arts party promoter and Cashmere Radio co-founder Ed Longo has spent much of the last 12 months criss-crossing Europe for recording sessions with a wide array of jazz-leaning musicians. The result is “The Other Fantasy”, a debut mini-album that’s said to be, “conceptualized around the quest for otherness in the schizophrenia of the digital age”. Regardless of the concept, the resultant music is rarely less than magical, with Longo and his collaborators effortlessly joining the dots between jazz-funk, fusion, boogie and ’80s soul. Highlights are plentiful, from the Dayton style early ’80s jazz-funk perfection of “Love On The Line” and drowsy new age ambient/jazz fusion of “Arcadian Dream”, to the synthesizer-powered ’80s smoothness of “A Palm In The Closet” and horizontal bliss of “Trouble In Paradise”.
