Bristolian cosmic jazz duo Run Logan Run, which features drummer Matt Brown and Neil Hayes on saxophone and electronics, has teamed up with producer Riaan Vosloo from Nostalgia 77 to release an incredible new album, titled For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers on the superb Bristol label Worm Discs.

Over eight tracks, this brilliant recording is bursting at the seams with spiritual futuristic jazz grooves, featuring intense and dynamic percussion rhythms, fierce saxophone horn solos and melodies, expansive synth soundscapes, and spacey electronic tones and textures. The album ebbs and flows between controlled orbiting ferocity to calmer atmospheric passages that all work together nicely.

Recorded in lockdown after months of intense jam sessions by Brown and Hayes, the pandemic was the backdrop to the creative process and also prompted the album’s title, according to the duo. “For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers is a reference to the fact that, for the first time in quite some time, society was together inside a collective moment,” say Hayes. He goes on to say, “It didn’t last for long, and it was definitely ugly, but it was also definitely beautiful. We’re working from our intuition and our music is a reflection of the world we inhabit. It’s ugly, but it’s also beautiful, and it’s beautiful, but it’s also ugly.”

Overall, Run Logan Run, with some remarkable production work from Vosloo, have released a cosmic jazz gem that is innovative and forward-leaning. Fans of The Comet Is Coming, Ishmael Ensemble, Ill Considered, and The Heliocentrics should definitely take notice!

Run Logan Run — ‘For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers’
(Worm Discs)

1. Screaming With The Light On
2. A Brief Moment
3. Give Me Back My Slippers
4. Moving With Speed
5. It’s About Ice Cream
6. Cold Showers
7. Shout Song
8. Wise Man Eames

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• Cosmic
• Spiritual Jazz