https://sensitivedocuments.bandcamp.com/album/undevelopmental-arrestment
Genre: Free Jazz
Rating: 4/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
released on bandcamp April 29, 2022
Baltimore. Weird, crime-ridden, largely deserted. The poor man’s Brooklyn. And under appreciated. There’s been a strong creative force bubbling for a long time. Great people doing great things. Yet it stubbornly will not gentrify. Of course, that’s good. And bad. So much of the place left abandoned to squatters. And yes of course it’s best to have people indoors. Whatever it is Baltimore has been pregnant with a potential Renaissance for many years. But it won’t give birth. It’s a giant metropolitan abortion. Or at least that’s how it seems to me.
Would Microkingdom be a more respected group of underpaid and under everything artists if they were in Chicago or Brooklyn. More on the map. Asked to play Cafe Oto in London and Big Ears and all that. Actually, they played Big Ears already so scratch that.
This album that builds on the same theme song after song is a test of psychic equilibrium. Nothing is heavily punctuated. Occasionally a geometric sonic shape will materialize placing the recording in the last ten years but mostly it could be thirty years ago or thirty years before that. That’s not a knock. It’s a nod to tradition and timelessness and sometimes to sorrow.
This is music for the fragmented multitude.
Warmth Highest 