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The Heliocentrics
12+ albums
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The Heliocentrics is a London based music collective breaking boundaries between funk, rock, electronic, ethnic traditions, and experimental music. The Heliocentrics’ debut album, Out There (2007) is a confounding piece of work. Drawing from the funk universe of James Brown, the disorienting asymmetry of Sun Ra, the cinematic scope of Ennio Morricone and the sublime fusion of David Axelrod, musique concrete, post-punk and krautrock, it pointed the way towards a new kind of psychedelia, one that could only come from many years of musical evolution and the refusal to conform to a single genre. The band’s collective drive is to find an individual voice, and they search for it in an alternate galaxy where the orbits of funk, jazz, psychedelic, electronic, avant-garde and “ethnic” music all revolve around “The One.” Drummer Malcolm Catto, bassist Jake Ferguson and keyboard player Jack Yglesias are the three constants behind the UK ensemble. Equally musicians and music fans, they have been playing together for over a decade. Over the years, various contributors to the collective have come and gone such as jazz legend Ray Carless (tenor soprano saxophone), Mike Burnham (drums and oud), Max Weissenfeldt (drums and vibraphone). James Arben (various wind instruments) and Adrian Owusu. As of 2018, the core trio have been augmented with Barbora Patkova (vocals), Raven Bush (violin and effects), Dan Smith (guitar and Moog) and Jason Yarde (saxophone). They have earned lifetime fans
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