Ornate Foal Men
Musicians of the world unite: collective euphoria compulsory. Along for the ride: John Mulvey.
Saddle up: Horse Lords gallop into wilder, ecstatic territory.
Horse Lords ★★★★
Comradely Objects
RVNG INTL. CD/DL/LP
IN HIS long and audacious career, the saxo-phonist Ornette Coleman talked a lot about a personal theory of music he called harmo-lodics, even though the actual meaning of harmolodics remained somewhat elusive. Most concluded that it signified a kind of jazz where there was no leader as such, where all the play-ers came together in unison while not being inhibited by traditional musical rules or hierarchies. A radical uprising in music; a truly democratic cultural revolution. But for all his evangelising on the subject, Coleman refused to be pinned down to specifics. Sound, he told the writer Philip Clark in 2007, “is as free as the gas that passes through your butt”.