{"product_id":"joe-westerlund-curiosities-from-the-shift-2lp","title":"Joe Westerlund - Curiosities from the Shift [2LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: 2 x LP\u003cbr\u003eCatalogue No.: PSY060LP\u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 0850068258420\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 03 Oct 2025\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Alternative  \/ Indie\/Experimental\/Instrumental\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the last half-decade Joe Westerlund became engrossed in studying the clave, the metric pattern that first Afro-Cuban and Latin music and then drifted into almost every corner of jazz and rock. What did it mean for an idea to be so flexible, for it to fit so many forms while retaining its own essence? The result is\u003cbr\u003ealeap into the unknown for Westerlund: Curiosities from the Shift, a 12-track playground of endlessly interwoven beats and melodies, where Westerlund’s clave enthusiasm collides with his textural experimentalism, where his rhythmic symphony of one shakes hands with friends decorating this space alongside him.\u003cbr\u003eIn the months after the initial sessions were done, Westerlund reached out to friends—Califone’s Tim Rutilli, saxophonist Sam Gendel, trumpeter Trever Hagen, and violinists Libby Rodenbough and Chris Jusell among them. These were his most thoroughly composed and precisely built works ever, but he wanted to hear what happened when his pals responded in real time. They delivered grace, depth, and feeling, with their parts pulling back curtains on hidden recesses of rhythmic worlds.\u003cbr\u003eWesterlund readily admits he is surprised by the album’s insistence on groove and meter rather than drifting abstraction. Having lived and worked so long with bands, he assumed he was done functioning within basic meter. These 12 songs fuse so many of Westerlund’s loves into pieces that are endlessly fascinating, using familiar elements to render his adventures into the unknown. Playful but tender, wistful but wondrous, driven by beats but not bound by them, this is Westerlund’s definitive statement so far, the solo drummer record that opens wide to reveal a musical and emotional landscape richer than perhaps even he imagined he might find.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTRACKLISTING\u003cbr\u003e01 Nu Male Uno\u003cbr\u003e02 Peebles ’n’ Stones\u003cbr\u003e03 Tem\u003cbr\u003e04 Fone\u003cbr\u003e05 Can Tangle\u003cbr\u003e06 Persurverance\u003cbr\u003e07 Furahai\u003cbr\u003e08 Ecstatic Guataca\u003cbr\u003e09 A Trance Delay\u003cbr\u003e10 Midpoint\u003cbr\u003e11 Elegy (for OLAibi)\u003cbr\u003e12 Felt Like Floating\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PSYCHIC HOTLINE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45254591512732,"sku":"PSY060LP","price":35.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/files\/JoeWesterlund-CuriositiesFromTheShift.jpg?v=1756833330","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/joe-westerlund-curiosities-from-the-shift-2lp","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}