Heavy Color's surreal and cinematic compositions explore spiritual jazz, traditional music, electronic and avant-psychedelia, spawning the description Post-World Music. Their first album Arise Ye Spiritual Machine (2014) re-contextualized archival music in a modern beat-tape format. River Passage (2018), a collaboration with musicians in Eastern Congo that combines elements of Afrobeat, minimalist Electronica, and futurist Hip Hop, spans physical environments, cultures and languages. In 2020 Heavy Color composed an original score for the film Invisible Hand, a documentary about the Rights of Nature Movement produced by Actor Mark Ruffalo. The resulting album, which blurred the line between minimalist chamber music and ambient electronic worlds was released by the experimental label, Curious Music. Most recently, they have completed a series of works in collaboration with Brussels based artist Haseeb Ahmed via installations in Richmond VA at 1708 Gallery and Cleveland Ohio at SPACES as part of FRONT.
In 2022 Heavy Color will release Soft Light, a recombination of 60’s spiritual jazz, meditations in pattern-based music, instrumental hip hop, and psychedelic pop as well as a film score for an upcoming film by Haseeb Ahmed tracing the path of the wind from the Sahara Desert to Venice Italy.
In performance, they are often accompanied by a live ensemble which has featured such musicians as Mike Savina, Patrick Booth, Estar Cohen, Jeffrey Neimeier, and Lucas Madrazo. Heavy Color is Ben Cohen and Sam Woldenberg.
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