Interview / Discount by Tony Price

New York producer Tony Price makes his Telephone Explosion debut with the Interview / Discount LP. Made up of two side-long tracks, the record is an electrifying collision of fractured jazz- concréte and combustible downtown funk that crushes the entire continuum between minimalism and maximalism into a hypnotic wreck of metropolitan sound matter.
Finding inspiration in the quicksilver impressionism of modal jazz, the manic bombast of early electro- funk and the narcotic non-linearity of 1970s minimalism, Price assembled a crew of jazz-funk heavyweights and free-improv wizards and set out to create an auditory representation of the soundscapes of New York City.

“Interview” is a meditative exploration of the tile-tunnelled labyrinths of NYC’s subway system at night. Saxophone soliloquies spill around a corner as a falling constellation of Rhodes tines and luminous cymbals ricochet against snaking organs. Vaporous synthesizers spark like short circuiting cables overhead as a bass clarinets chugs at a Reich-ian pulse astride a locomotive bassline carrying the listener from station to station.