A Musical Retrospective
Picture, if you will, the combined DNA of Albert Einstein, Babtunde Olatunji, George Harrison, Jimmy Cliff, David Byrne, Billy Martin, Gil Evans, Jerry Garcia, Terrance McKenna, Bob Marley, Yoda, Roger Waters and the Scarecrow from the Land of Oz.
Imagine a consciousness so quietly powerful that people who spent only a few hours around him would say years later that the experience forever changed the course of their life.
Like Van Gogh, a man whose vision of the world was so vividly radiant and psychedelic … a beauty so new that anyone who looks at it is suddenly given new eyes, yet it allowed him no peace.
Sean Layton lived 30 years on Earth, and among his many accomplishments he instructed Brian Haas & Reed Mathis in the ways of the Force, founded the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, and wrote some of the most beautiful and true music I have ever heard.
Very little of this music has been heard…. until now.
This collection of vocal songs ranges from reggae to hillbilly, West Africa to hip hop. And these lyrics, man, they peel like a Jungian Onion.
Featuring Brian, Reed, and everyone who has ever been in JFJO, as well as pedal-steel/guitar virtuoso Steve Pryor, brother-guitarist Dylan Layton, and a full gospel choir of Okie Shamans, in various combinations & ensembles, recorded in studios & clubs from Oklahoma to San Francisco over several years.
We offer this album in grateful tribute to our brother & teacher, the truly inimitable Sean Layton.
--Reed Mathis
