El-P passes the mic to five jazz legends

With El-P Presents Sunrise Over Bklyn, Def Jux entrepreneur, El-P, sits in his producer's chair and lends his name to a 12" by The Blue Series Continuum. The group is made up of NYC avant-garde jazz musicians Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Daniel Carter, Roy Campbell, Steve Swell and Guillermo E. Brown. The core of this group already stepped into the hip-hop alliance success with the Antipop Consortium earlier this year, as well as spending time with Chicago South Side legends Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake. \n"Sunrise Over Bklyn" is a composition by El-P, and exemplifies this guy's musical pedigree. Far from the synth-beats of the brilliant single "Stepfather Factory" from last year's Fantastic Damage, "Sunrise" is a jazz composition with live drumming and no rhyming. Instead, it is a mood piece trying to pick up on the early morning ambience of the warehouse side of town. The kind of ambience that is only evident to those unwilling or unable to fall asleep before it appears.\nThe single's over in a nod and wink though, the mood escaping too soon, leaving a fractured experience rather than a fully realized concept. Still, El-P is evidently more prolific than we have all realized yet.