Nearing his 34th year in the music business, Jan Weißenfeldt is no longer doing things by halves. What began in 1991 with his brother Maximilian (yes, the one from Philophon) under the name Whitefield Brothers is now picking up speed again. After an LP on the Berlin label Kryptox in 2019, there were excursions to France (on Janko Nilovic’s label Broc) and to Los Angeles with none other than Madlib. And let’s not forget all the records he released under the name Karl Hector.
This year, the journey continues, and it turns out to be a very special magic carpet ride. On »The Infinity Of Nothingness«, JJ Whitefield explores how and where music can be pushed to the limit. At least that’s the impression you get from the six slowly flowing, smouldering tracks, which at times sound like an oasis in the middle of the desert, at others like the new great jazz centres of the world.
»Spectral Realms«, for example, floats through a jazz landscape of spiritual jazz and hip-hop beats at an unhurried pace, the exhaustion of sleep deprivation palpable in the limbs. It’s a forced meditation, if the name of the backing band is anything to go by.
