Manhattan’s NEVARIS share soulful, Afro-Latin duborama ‘Ninth Sun – Live’

MANHATTAN-based artist NEVARIS (Agustín Nevaris) and his elegant ensemble of musicians share first cut from new ‘SoundSession EP,’ the soulful, Afro-Latin duborama ‘Ninth Sun – Live.’

The recording also features DJ Logic, Jonathan Maron, Angel Rodriguez, Will Bernard, Peter Apfelbaum, Jojo Kuo, Lockatron and Matt Dickey, marking ‘SoundSession’ as the fourth collaboration between Nevaris and celebrated bassist-producer Bill Laswell, the EP recorded live in a single session at Laswell’s New Jersey Orange Sound studio, despite originally planned as a streaming virtual performance.

“’SoundSession’ is about playing together live without being stressed by ticket sales or a venue accommodating so many musicians,” said Nevaris. “Bill Laswell’s studio has always been an inspiring place with so much history – it was built for Franki Valli originally. The live room is something magnificent. We had never used it in a way that fully took advantage of it.

“So this was a chance to do so, using the full space of this sizeable room. From the first notes, we could tell there was something good happening. And the recording documents it exactly as it was, with no overdubs or edits. Every note feels right from my perspective – exactly how it happened in real time.

“There is nothing that can compare to the beauty of artists making work in its most organic form. There’s a place for technology and a place for getting back to the old school way of doing things. And that’s what this recording is about. Playing live together without any click track or overdubbing, or edits of any kind. And it takes cats who can really play to pull it off. It is a joy to play with every one of the musicians involved in this process.

“People think everything is manipulated in the studio and a lot of it is. And everybody is talking about AI now. But we are moving in the opposite direction where everything gets more organic and raw with every project we work on.”

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(Nevaris group photo (c) Michael Black)