"You can hear it before it’s been said, and before you hear it, the space for its anticipation is someplace you’re already in. And if you were there, you would have seen it, taking place, taking shape, becoming, between them, an event, no less a body than a route, no more a method than a calling or a having been called, an affirmation of the phantasmatic nature of the divide separating the arrhythmia of improvised music from dance music’s foundational investment in the number four. An affirmation which is also an affective, questing, generative disinvestment in this opposition, a negation set in motion by a trialogical listening and playing into materiality new conjunctures of space, time, thought and sound."

(Edward George, 2024)

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YESYESPEAKERSYES is the first vinyl release of the remarkable collaboration between Chicago foot-work founder Kavain Wayne Space (aka RPBoo) and London duo experiment XT (drummer Paul Abbott and saxophonist Seymour Wright). The trio’s synthesis of rhythms, sounds, strategies, technologies and traditions collapse genre, distance, boundaries and preconceptions into a total, and totally unique, brain... more
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released March 15, 2024

Kavain Wayne Space/XT (Paul Abbott + Seymour Wright) – Trio

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Kavain Wayne Space – CDJs

Paul Abbott – real and imaginary drums

Seymour Wright – actual and potential saxophone

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Recorded live Friday October 8th, 2021, at Cafe OTO, London
Recorded by Shaun Crook
Mixed by Billy Steiger
Mastered by Amir Shoat
Cover paintings by Benedict Drew

Thank you – Fielding Hope, Jackson Burton.