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Reuben Lewis & Adam Halliwell - Return of the Airpoets (2025)

[ELA005] Reuben Lewis & Adam Halliwell - 'Return of the Airpoets' Released 12/12/2025 00:00 1. Murder in the Tiki Lounge 07:18 2. The Verdict (Trial of the Airpoets) 12:45 3. Digital Water Chorus 17:19 4. Stygian Vistas 20:40 5. As the Errant Mind Sleeps 26:13 6. Geriatric Confine 30:49 7. Brown’s Final Words 33:10 8. You’ve Come This Far 43:09 9. Farewell (Words Left Unsaid) Elations Recordings presents “Return of the Airpoets”, an exploratory recording from longtime collaborators Reuben Lewis (I Hold The Lion’s Paw) & Adam Halliwell (Mildlife, IHTLP), occupying a unique space between contemporary experimental music and avant jazz. Engineered and mixed by Reuben Lewis in 2023, and featuring guest appearances from acclaimed Australian drummer Ronny Ferella. “Return of the Airpoets” continues a conversation begun with ‘Cygon Dance’, an extended duo between Lewis and Halliwell from Halliwell’s 2023 LP “Freedom Lapse”; a dialogue that stems from a shared love and respect for Jon Hassell’s Fourth World music. Sonic pioneer and adventurer, Hassell’s futuristic vision advocated possible musics, stressing plurality and multiplicity. Faithful to his vision, Adam and Reuben, as trailblazers rather than imitators, delight in boundless musical possibilities, adopting Hassell’s futurism as stock-in-trade, making it their own while augmented with neo noir hues and hints of the tilted electro-funk of Miles Davis’ collaborations with Marcus Miller. These nine tracks flow together as a unified suite, their shadowy presence stitched from fractured narratives: imaginary crimes, murders, dreams, the unspoken. At the same time, you can detect the artists’ meticulous attention to sonic detail, feel the undercurrents, the complex layering. This music has been distilled, winnowed, from extended improv sessions, with the artists – as producers – zeroing in on offcuts, shards, and splinters, seamlessly patching together fragments in post-production to construct intricately layered sound collages, taking a leaf out of Tao Macero’s book, building from the ground up. Who are these airpoets? Their mystifying trial suggests the travails of Joseph K, sentenced for unspecified crimes. But I prefer to see them as fugitives escaped from Robert Bolaño’s novel, “Savage Detectives”. In Bolaño’s book, poet Juan Garcia Madero is granted admission to the shadowy group of poets, the Visceral Realists, whose movement has no clear aims, and whose members “walked backward . . . gazing at a point in the distance, but moving away from it, walking straight toward the unknown.” Like the visceral poets, these airpoets, Reuben Lewis and Adam Halliwell, set their sights on a point on the distant horizon, setting off without map or compass, drawing nearer and moving away, towards the unknown. Reuben Lewis - trumpet, synthesisers & pedals Adam Halliwell - guitar, bass guitar, synthesisers & percussion Ronny Ferella - drums (A4, B2 & B3) Composed by Reuben Lewis and Adam Halliwell Produced by Reuben Lewis and Adam Halliwell Engineered by Reuben Lewis Mixed by Reuben Lewis Mastered by Helmut Erler Insert weave by Martha Sexton Bronze weave hieroglyphs designed by Jack Hewitt Cover photograph by Guy Vinciguerra Artist and insert photography by Anna Denton Design by Thomas Rennie Liner notes by Des Cowley Reuben and Adam extend their respects and acknowledge that this music was made on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. In memory of Jon Hassell Printed in Germany by R.A.N.D Muzik Lacquer cut by Helmut Erler Distribution Aus - Efficient Space World - Word & Sound www.elationsrecordings.com