Black Decelerant - Reflections Vol. 2: Black Decelerant

Label: RVNG Intl. – RVNGNL98
Series: Reflections (25)
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: US
Released: Jun 21, 2024
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient

For the second volume of Reflections, RVNG Intl. welcome Black Decelerant, the duo of Khari Lucas, aka Contour, and Omari Jazz, to explore improvisational jazz traditions through contemporary tone and texture, fostering sonic meditations on themes of Black being and nonbeing, life and mourning, expansion and limitation, and the individual and collective. The Black Decelerant collaboration, and intention, creates space for listeners to be still, while providing a basis for a movement beyond “the moment.”

With Black Decelerant, the duo explore spiritual jazz traditions through contemporary tone and texture, fostering sonic meditations on themes of Black being and nonbeing, life and mourning, expansion and limitation, and the individual and collective. The record emerges as a portal and a mirror to a way of living, which as Lucas and Jazz explain, is about leaning into the mind and body’s natural inclination to do what is nourishing for it, away from commodified or virtuous iterations of rest and care attached to capitalism and white supremacy. Black Decelerant is a breathtaking, and breath slowing, album that we can't recommend enough.

A1. Three
A2. One
A3. Six
A4. Seven ½
B1. Two
B2. Five
B3. Nine
B4. Eight
B5. Four