Spaceways Incorporated

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Trash A-Go-Go 00:00 Tools
Tapestry From an Asteroid 00:00 Tools
Alice in My Fantasies / Cosmic Slop 00:00 Tools
She Just Got Here 06:00 Tools
Journeyman 09:22 Tools
Street Named Hell 00:00 Tools
Red Hot Mama / Super Stupid 00:00 Tools
Bassism 00:00 Tools
All Frequencies 06:34 Tools
El Is a Sound of Joy 00:00 Tools
Future 00:00 Tools
Back of a Cab 07:17 Tools
We Travel the Spaceways 00:00 Tools
Size Large 03:56 Tools
We Travel the Spaceways / Space Is the Place 00:00 Tools
Reasonable Hour 07:28 Tools
You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks 04:40 Tools
You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks / Hit It and Quit It 00:00 Tools
Canicula 05:44 Tools
Clocked 06:46 Tools
Rothko Sideways 12:03 Tools
Back Of A Cab (For Jackie Mittoo) 07:18 Tools
Thanatocracy 05:29 Tools
Force At A Distance 08:54 Tools
Reasonable Hour (For Serge Chaloff) 07:29 Tools
Pharmakon 04:26 Tools
Theme De Yoyo 05:12 Tools
Vegetalista 12:04 Tools
Rothko Sideways (For Mark Rothko) 12:04 Tools
Size Larger (For Larry Graham) 03:57 Tools
Clocked (For Joseph 'Zigaboo' Modeliste) 06:47 Tools
We Travel The Spaceways/Space Is The Place 08:09 Tools
Force At A Distance (For Frank Wright) 08:55 Tools
Theme de Yo-Yo 08:55 Tools
Vegetelista 03:41 Tools
You And Your Folks, Me And My 03:41 Tools
Red Ot Mama / Super Stupid 03:41 Tools
Size Large (for Larry Graham) 03:41 Tools
We Travel The Spaceways/Space 05:23 Tools
Alice in My Fantasies 05:23 Tools
Canicula - Spaceways Incorporated Inc. Plus Zu 05:23 Tools
Thanatocracy - Spaceways Incorporated Inc. Plus Zu 05:23 Tools
Red Hot Mama 07:36 Tools
Red Ot Mama-Super Stupid 07:36 Tools
You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks - Hit It and Quit It 07:36 Tools
Alice in My Fantasies Comic Slop 07:36 Tools
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Spaceways Inc. was first brought together in the Spring of 1999 to help celebrate the 3rd anniversary of the Empty Bottle Jazz Series in Chicago. Hamid Drake (drums), and Ken Vandermark (reeds) have been working together regularly since the Summer of 1994, particularly in the critically acclaimed improvisation unit, the DKV TRIO. Nate McBride (basses) and Vandermark have also had a long term relationship in music, involving projects held in Boston since the early 90s, the Barrage Double Trio in 1994, and most recently, the trio Tripleplay (with Curt Newton on drums). But it has been in Spaceways Inc. that the unique axis of Drake, McBride and Vandermark has been able to really develop. The initial version of the project focused on the work of George Clinton's Funkadelic and Sun Ra's various ensembles. SPACEWAYS took those ideas about Funk and Free Jazz and brought them someplace new on the album 13 Cosmic Standards (Atavistic, 2000). During a tour of Austria in the Spring of 2001, the trio talked about further developing the stylistic polarities suggested by the pieces of Clinton and Ra by applying them to compositions of their own. Spaceways followed though on this idea with the work recorded in August 2001 for the cd, Version Soul (Atavistic, 2002). This document expands on the hard funk/free jazz intersection of the first record and includes elements of reggae, "cool school" jazz, Southern back beats, and "new music" abstractions. With each successive performance, Spaceways Inc. sinks deeper into the territory they found between what some listeners initially thought were disparate musics. This trio pulls them together through heavy communication and their ability to find the groove that connects creative music, no matter how incongruous a sense of abstraction or ass swinging the pulse may initially seem. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.