{"id":42544,"date":"2017-11-08T19:15:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T17:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/the-afrofuturist-chicago-house-by-jamal-moss\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:38:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:38:28","slug":"the-afrofuturist-chicago-house-by-jamal-moss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/the-afrofuturist-chicago-house-by-jamal-moss\/","title":{"rendered":"The afrofuturist Chicago House by Jamal Moss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9970 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Jamal-Moss-JAI-MAHL.jpg\" alt=\"Jamal Moss JAI MAHL\" width=\"1200\" height=\"909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Jamal-Moss-JAI-MAHL.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Jamal-Moss-JAI-MAHL-759x575.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Jamal-Moss-JAI-MAHL-1010x765.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Jamal-Moss-JAI-MAHL-661x501.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Jamal-Moss-JAI-MAHL-465x352.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Jamal-Moss-JAI-MAHL-375x284.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\">JAI\/MAHL is Jamal Moss (aka Hieroglyphic Being)&#8217;s new project. His EP <em>The Message of Zipf<\/em> is released via new french record label\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TVShowww\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TV Showw<\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the help of his mentors Adonis and Steve Poindexter, Jamal Moss started electronic music in the beginning of the 90s. Mathematics Recordings\u2019 boss got more than 30 albums to his credit, from House to Techno, by way of Avant-Jazz, Industrial and Noise. However his deeply held Afrofuturist intent and the discipline of his radical designs set him apart from the pack. Often named \u201cOutsider House\u201d, his music found its place on important record labels like Ninja Tune, Soul Jazz or Warp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=269793924\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jaimahl.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-message-of-zipf\">The Message Of Zipf by JAI\/MAHL<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>JAI\/MAHL<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is\u00a0Jamal Moss&#8217; new alias especially created for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Message of Zipf.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Like Sun Ra and his assumed dissonance, the three tracks are made of damaged melodies and rhythms building intense psychedelic grooves. The artist calls his style \u201crhythmic cubism\u201d or \u201csynth expressionism\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Teachers Within<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d is a fantastic trancy and atmospheric journey. \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Same Beings, Same Experiences, Same Worlds<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d is a physical fight between harmony and chaos. \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zipf<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d is a dancefloor killer track. Theses acid bass lines are a proof that Jamal Moss is <\/span>Larry Heard\u2019s spiritual son.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the music video of\u00a0\u201cSame Beings, Same Experiences, Same Worlds\u201d, directed by Marcus Mixx, another Chicago House veteran:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J4kIVGE1jIE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>The Message of Zipf\u00a0<\/em>is released on\u00a0TV Showw, a new parisian record label focused on electronic music. Each release\u2019s aim is to transpose a producer\u2019s very recognizable style within a cartoon-style universe imagined by drawer <\/span><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/claude.joyeux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Claude Joyeux<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>JAI\/MAHL,\u00a0<\/b><b><i>The Message of Zipf<\/i><\/b><b>,\u00a0out no<span style=\"color: #333333;\">w in <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/zipf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">digital and vinyl <\/a>(lim<\/span>ited pressing 300 pieces).<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9972\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/JAI-MAHL-The-Message-of-Zipf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/JAI-MAHL-The-Message-of-Zipf.jpg 900w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/JAI-MAHL-The-Message-of-Zipf-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/JAI-MAHL-The-Message-of-Zipf-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/JAI-MAHL-The-Message-of-Zipf-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/JAI-MAHL-The-Message-of-Zipf-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/JAI-MAHL-The-Message-of-Zipf-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/JAI-MAHL-The-Message-of-Zipf-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/JAI-MAHL-The-Message-of-Zipf-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/JAI-MAHL-The-Message-of-Zipf-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Listen next:<\/em>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/afrofutur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black to the Afrofutur<\/a>, 2 hours of afrofuturist music<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAI\/MAHL is Jamal Moss (aka Hieroglyphic Being)&#8217;s new project. His EP The Message of Zipf is released via new french record label\u00a0TV Showw. With the help of his mentors Adonis and Steve Poindexter, Jamal Moss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[5428],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42544"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42544"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}