Jake Baxendale - Gardening Music, Volume 1 (2025) [Hi-Res]

"Polyphony is music in which autonomous melodies intertwine...For those not musically inclined, it may be useful to imagine the polyphonic assemblage in relation to agriculture. Since the time of the plantation, commercial agriculture has aimed to segregate a single crop and work toward its simultaneous ripening for a coordinated harvest. But other kinds of farming have multiple rhythms. In the shifting cultivation I studied in Indonesian Borneo, many crops grew together in the same field, and they had quite different schedules. Rice, bananas, taro, sweet potatoes, sugarcane, palms, and fruit trees mingled; farmers needed to attend to the varied schedules of maturation of each of these crops. These rhythms were their relation to human harvests; if we add other relations, for example, to pollinators or other plants, rhythms multiply. The polyphonic assemblage is the gathering of these rhythms, as they result from world-­making projects, human and not human."

– Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, 'The Mushroom at the End of the World"

Jake Baxendale - alto saxophone
Louisa Williamson - tenor saxophone
Duncan Haynes - piano
Johnny Lawrence - double bass
Cory Champion - drums

Tracklist:
1-1 Jake Baxendale - Casting Nasturtiums [4:34]
1-2 Jake Baxendale - I Notice the Rain Differently Now [6:15]
1-3 Jake Baxendale - Tsing Tsong part I [3:28]
1-4 Jake Baxendale - Propagation [3:45]
1-5 Jake Baxendale - Tsing Tsong part II [1:05]
1-6 Jake Baxendale - Encore [6:48]