Abe Mamet - levitate the heavy part (2025) Hi-Res

This album is heavily informed by Sound Awareness, a concept championed by the late Brother Ah (Robert Northern), another D.C. French horn player rooted in creative music. As Brother Ah told the Washington Post in 2017, Sound Awareness is an understanding that all forms of sound are valid expressions of music; beauty is a mindset, not a state of being. "Every entity on Earth is communicating through sound. Every animal, every bird, every insect. And if we hear it, we can be a part of it." This album attempts to use the concept of Sound Awareness to help amplify that beauty, and anchor ourselves (and the listener) in our own natural worlds, with eyes not on the horizon but turned focused within our own intimate realities.

Additionally, 'levitate the heavy part' is indebted to Mamet's countless inspirations and predecessors, including and especially Jaimie Branch, Ron Miles, Joe Bonner, Don Cherry, Julius Watkins, Daniel Carter, diasporic Jewish music, the mountains, ceramic arts, and D.C. Gospel recorded on the Mark independent record label during the ‘60s and ‘70s.