Wide Hive Records
2005
Cubik & Origami
About This Album
Some people mistake being jazzy for actually being jazz, but they're two different things. Joni Mitchell, Anita Baker, Sade, De La Soul, Julia Fordham, and A Tribe Called Quest are all jazzy -- they have jazz influences, but they aren't jazz. Trumpeter Miles Davis, on the other hand, was the essence of jazz; even when he became influenced by Jimi Hendrix and James Brown and alienated jazz purists by using a lot of electric instruments, Davis maintained a jazz improviser's mentality. Of course, actual jazz isn't necessarily better than music that is merely jazzy -- a lot of worthwhile recordings are merely jazzy, and this self-titled CD by the duo Cubik & Origami is a good example. Anyone who tells you that Cubik & Origami's work is "jazz for the dancefloor" or something like that is delusional; nothing on this 58-minute disc is actually jazz. But Cubik & Origami do provide electronica with jazz (and hip-hop) overtones, and they are enjoyably good at it. Electronica, of course, is a broad, far-reaching term; electronica is everything from techno to trance to jungle/drum'n'bass to ambient, and this mostly instrumental CD favors the chillout/downtempo side of things.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,8 and 9)

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