"Me and My Students Have Reached Higher Levels" presents itself as an obscure and ever-morphing spectral-jazz album. Produced by eight outernational musicians, once originating from Iran, Israel, America, Russia, Romania and Germany, this record carries a distinct centrifugal force. Suspending musical particles out of a brewish stew full of drones, bleeps and feedbacks, we hear a retro-futuristic sound which could have been Big Fun back in 1974. It makes us envision the electric dreams of an artificial intelligence modeled after Lee “Scratch” Perry. Given the task to create a dubby fusion requiem for Bela Lugosi’s Death, it seems Perry’s AI has been applied to a jukebox full of CAN’s and Sun Ra’s 7-inches.

The album is released on the Paris based label Akuphone.

Magnús Jóhann (IS)
Magnús Jóhann is an Icelandic musician and composer based in Reykjavík. At the age of 20 Magnús has accumulated tons of experience playing with various b...

"Me and My Students Have Reached Higher Levels" presents itself as an obscure and ever-morphing spectral-jazz album. Produced by eight outernational musicians, once originating from Iran, Israel, America, Russia, Romania and Germany, this record carries a distinct centrifugal force. Suspending musical particles out of a brewish stew full of drones, bleeps and feedbacks, we hear a retro-futuristic sound which could have been Big Fun back in 1974. It makes us envision the electric dreams of an artificial intelligence modeled after Lee “Scratch” Perry. Given the task to create a dubby fusion requiem for Bela Lugosi’s Death, it seems Perry’s AI has been applied to a jukebox full of CAN’s and Sun Ra’s 7-inches.

The album is released on the Paris based label Akuphone.

Magnús Jóhann (IS)
Magnús Jóhann is an Icelandic musician and composer based in Reykjavík. At the age of 20 Magnús has accumulated tons of experience playing with various bands and projects around Reykjavík. Magnús started his own solo project of sorts when he started composing music for short films and began experimenting with his various synthesizers and keyboards. His music is best described as a mix of modern classical, ambient and electronic music. With a live rig composed of a Fender Rhodes piano, various synthesizers, a piano and string instruments, the result is a mix of lush soundscapes with improvised elements....

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