{"product_id":"075597891768","title":"PRE-ORDER: Josh Johnson \"Animative\" LP (Exospheric Blue Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHIS IS A PRE-ORDER: We expect this to ship on or around OCTOBER 23rd, 2026. Any items ordered with this will be held until they can ship together. If you need other items faster please place a separate order for those items. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnimative embodies a culmination of the harmonically rich, loops-inflected sound that first germinated on Johnson’s 2020 full band release Freedom Exercise and on his immersive 2024 solo album Unusual Object. The ten track album – co-produced by Johnson and Paul Bryan, featuring contributions from Meshell Ndegeocello, Macie Stewart, Marquis Hill, Ben Lumsdaine, and more – is a marvel of electro-acoustic innovation that combines compositional brilliance and technological ambition into a mesmerizing blend of skeletal soul-jazz, post-bop, electronic minimalism, and dreamy ambience. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the album, Johnson puts sophisticated technologies to work, often using the saxophone to control a sampler or a drum machine, triggering changes in a loop or an effect. But it’s always in service of a feeling — working to escape the trap of mastery. “I'm looking to make it feel more human,” Johnson says. In particular, he cites fellow Chicagoan, saxophonist, and 360-degree artistic thinker Eddie Harris and the brilliant piano eccentric Mal Waldron as influences on his approach to breaking form and emphasizing the corporeal elements of performance. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe spectrum of influence, clarity of intention, and confidence in craft present in Johnson’s approach yields stunning results on Animative. Whether it’s spiritual and wandering works augmented by the idiosyncratic overloads of hardware technology (as on the stirring “Aughts Hymnal”), stumbling funk that pulsates with the glow of otherworldly deep sea life (“High Step”), surrealist dancefloor cuts (“Jazz Chord Possession”) or cloudy collages of shoegaze saxophone (“Upstairs 2021”), Animative coheres into a strange and beautiful whole — a generous and spellbinding reflection of its auteurist creator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTRACK LIST:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIdiofone\u003cbr\u003eReece\u003cbr\u003eJazz Chord Possession\u003cbr\u003eAughts Hymnal\u003cbr\u003eMill\u003cbr\u003eIt Can Be Everywhere\u003cbr\u003eStrays\u003cbr\u003eHigh Step\u003cbr\u003eClose\u003cbr\u003eUpstairs 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003estreet date 10\/23\/2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WEA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45216863092936,"sku":"075597891768","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0628\/1337\/2616\/files\/87z_22eccd81-bee3-498e-ae05-e9ba13d27f1a.jpg?v=1790008129","url":"https:\/\/1234gorecords.shop\/products\/075597891768","provider":"1-2-3-4 Go! Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}