The Heliocentrics Before
I Die
feat. Guilty Simpson
12" - OUT NOW
The Heliocentrics
Distant Star
feat. Percee P
12" - OUT NOW
The Heliocentrics Sirius B
feat. Vast Aire
12" - OUT SOON
Malcolm Catto –
drums & piano Jake Ferguson – bass & Thai guitar Mike Burnham – modular synth &
effects Jack Yglesias – flutes, percussion
& santur Adrian Owusu – guitars, oud & percussion James Arben – clarinet, tenor &
baritone sax Ray Carless – alto, tenor & baritone
sax Max Weissenfeldt – vibes & percussion Khadijatou Silcott-Fraser (K2 Wordplay) -
vocals
The Heliocentrics
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Bonus 45
“Malcolm Catto’s band turns
traditional funk on its head with his syncopated
drums tying up ’60s psychedelia and
free jazz into chaos-on-the-one.” – URB Magazine
MP3: Distant Star (Strange Version) feat. MF Doom & Percee P
the latest 12-inch single from the album Out There | 12-inch single
From the drummer sampled by Madlib and Yesterdays New Quintet...
From the band that backed DJ Shadow... Four years in the making, The Heliocentrics'
debut album is finally complete. Out There is here.
Good luck trying to categorize their music.
Led by the relentless drummer Malcolm
Catto, the UK collective's objective lays quite a ways
beyond what ordinary listeners know or expect. In an alternative
galaxy, where the orbits of Hip-Hop, Funk, Jazz, Psychedelic,
Electronic, Avante-Garde and Ethnic music all revolve around
“The One” – that's where you might find
The Heliocentrics.
A listen to a song or two reveals no small
influence from the funk universe of James Brown. But there's
also the disorienting asymmetry of Sun Ra's music. The cinematic
scope of Ennio Morricone. The sublime fusion of David Axelrod.
But the Heliocentrics' music isn't retro. It's brand new.
And it's timeless. They have well-placed fans in the likes
of Madlib (Catto was featured on his Shades of Blue album and on various Yesterdays New Quintet releases) and
DJ Shadow (the band backed him on the song “This Time
I’m Gonna Do It My Way” from his The Outsider album), who will tell you that this band is really the next
shit but that they have the consistency and musicianship that
seems to have been lost somewhere in the analog to digital
shuffle over the past thirty years.
