Ninni Morgia Control Unit

[UM005] NINNI MORGIA CONTROL UNIT - 2LP

Ninni Morgia: guitar, bass, el. autoharp, el. sitar, keyboard, percussion, kalimba

Daniel Carter: saxophones, trumpet, clarinet, flute, voice

Jeff Arnal: drums, percussion, thumb piano

Recorded June 2009 by Mark Ospovat at Emandee, Brooklyn, NY
Mixed by Silvia Kastel
Mastered by Scott Colburn

Brooklyn-based guitarist Ninni Morgia (Quivers, The Right Moves), on this occasion with multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, one of the most active and talented musicians of New York’s free jazz community, who has played, among others, with: Sun Ra, Sunny Murray, Test, Matthew Shipp, Other Dimensions In Music, Plastic Ono Band… and drummer/percussionist Jeff Arnal, create a beautiful mix of psychedelic free jazz and Indian raga with a wide range of instruments like thumb piano, kalimba, bells, gongs, all centered around Morgia’s versatile guitar work, previously compared to great masters like Keiji Haino, Sonny Sharrock and Hendrix. On the various tracks of this 2LP, Morgia’s guitar goes from Miles-electric style funky-wah and the acid trips of Jerry Garcia, to the fury of Haino and Sharrock, and finally reaches the ecstatic visions of the great kosmische bands Popol Vuh and Ash Ra Tempel. Mastered by audio wizard Scott Colburn (Sun City Girls, Magik Markers, Animal Collective).

“Morgia is channeling the cosmic, chilled out, and psychedelic with his intense blending of styles…A joy to listen to… and when it’s over I just want to start the journey again” Foxy Digitalis

“Juicy conglomerations of fluidly repetitive and heavily processed guitar lines, unadulterated melodic pensiveness-cum-blowouts and masterfully delivered metrical abstraction” Massimo Ricci

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[UM005] Ninni Morgia Control Unit - s/t 2LP