mathy mondays wasn't scared of the shogun, but the shogun was scared of them...
"Living In The World Today (GZA transcription)" - Steve Lehman Octet
Adders, subtracters, multipliers, and dividers, witness the Steve Lehman Octet, explorers of spectral harmony, which is not a thing I totally understand other than that it sounds hella cool, injecting scalene subdivisions into the dance of the Liquid Swords on their crystalline cover of the GZA's "Living In The World Today". Transmuting the RZA's weirdly truncated flute/vibes sample into actual vibraphone and this crazy hitch-of-a-beat thing that, lead on by drumming leviathan Tyshawn Sorey's 5th dimensional clock-tick hihat "timekeeping", threatens to give your neck some seriously confusing repetitive strain injuries. Replace rap with arabesque sax, stir, and run the hell away before it explodes.
Do you want more?!!!??! Check the album. Even more? Check Fieldwork, the Cream (ie supergroup, also featuring Sorey) of modern jazz
If rappers had any balls, they would rap over the groove at the end. If you think jazz is dead, then know that at least it lives on a fucking flesh eating zombie. And not those lumbering fleshheads, but the James Gunn, 2004, Dawn of The Dead remake kind of zombie.
The ones that can chase you until you die.
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