Since the heyday of trance, James Holden has leaned into his bohemian spirit. On The Universe Will Take Care Of You, the veteran British DJ teams up with Polish clarinetist Wacław Zimpel on improvised pieces that radiate incense and speak to the pair’s ingenuity. Woodwind loops are warbled by unique plugins, spatial mixing, and Holden’s own Benny software. Interpolating kosmische, 20th century Minimalism, and Moroccan Gnawa, The Universe Will Take Care Of You is wonderfully discordant.
British synth wizard James Holden and Polish clarinet guru Waclaw Zimpel present their entrancing debut album of improvisatory works: 'The Universe Will Take Care Of You' is an alliance wherein these two like-minded masters of their craft converge and explore their deepest improvisational urges to strikingly lush, hypnotic and emotive effect. An in-the-moment lyrical conversation between the pair’s playing, cementing the joyful convergence of their disparate musical journeys, it is an explosion of raw musical creativity in its most primal form.
