released December 1, 2022
A new 7" from [Ahmed] – the quartet of:
Pat Thomas – piano
Antonin Gerbal – drum-kit
Joel Grip – double-bass
Seymour Wright – alto saxophone
One side - [WAHID], 45 rpm (with a locked groove) – recorded live at Cafe OTO 2017. Mixed by Taku Unami.
The other side - [AHAD] 33rpm – recorded live at Cafe OTO 2019. Mixed by Billy Steiger.
Edition of 300. Gatefold.
Cover painting: FRIDGE [Elvin Brandhi]
Liner notes: Seymour Wright
[Ahmed] make music about the music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik. They excavate, re-inhabit and use a-new the now overlooked documents, and fragmentary plans, of his mid-20th century synthetic vision to produce a new jazz imagination for the 21st century.