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Pat Thomas Chris Sharkey Luke Reddin-Williams: Know: Delirium Atom Paths

By Mike Jurkovic
June 15, 2023
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Pat Thomas Chris Sharkey Luke Reddin-Williams: Know: Delirium Atom Paths

Delirium Atom Paths sounds exactly as one might hope, expect, or suspect the willing abandon of UK master innovator, keyboardist

Pat Thomas

piano
b.1960

" data-original-title="" title="">Pat Thomas, guitarist

Chris Sharkey

guitar, electric

" data-original-title="" title="">Chris Sharkey, and drummer

" data-original-title="" title="">Luke Reddin-Williams to sound like: a fearless dialogue of ideas without dogma, ambitions without greed, creation without regret.

Captured live at Leeds at the big bang moment in March 2020, the trio immediately sets out to render the ambiguous mute. To head off directly into the pandemic future and hold it back, if only just for an evening. A jagged beauty, Delirium Atom Paths cuts left, cuts right and never walks the center line. It strays, it charges, it draws you into its left-field hypnotism and reveals things only shamans know: that freedom neither be indulgent nor divisive. Just universally avowed.

Thomas, who in his tireless, uncompromising sixties, is finally getting his due as a true heir to

Cecil Taylor

piano
1929 - 2018

" data-original-title="" title="">Cecil Taylor, (and daresay,

Anthony Braxton

woodwinds
b.1945

" data-original-title="" title="">Anthony Braxton) may instigate the sonic landscapes but it is Sharkey who distorts and distinguishes the many horizons beyond the knowable as Reddin-Williams tilts the tectonics from punk to world, jazz, dance, rock then back again. Equal parts morse code, wayward algorithms, swooping atmospherics, and human inquiry, Delirium Atom Paths is a compelling study in the gymnastics of interpretation that engages not only the possible but the random impossibility that we may yet make sense of it all. Available digitally and on exclusively limited colored vinyl from the 577 Records, the musical home of the daring and the brave.

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Track Listing

Delirium Atom Paths.

Personnel

Pat Thomas

piano

Chris Sharkey

guitar, electric

Luke Reddin-Williams

drums

Additional Instrumentation

Pat Thomas: keyboards.

Album information

Title: Know: Delirium Atom Paths | Year Released: 2023 | Record Label: 577 Records

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