Herbie Hancock - Blow-UpBlow Up is a soundtrack album by American jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, featuring music composed for Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blow Up. The album features performances by Hancock, trumpeters Freddie Hubbard and Joe Newman, alto saxophonist Phil Woods, tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, guitarist Jim Hall, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Jack DeJohnette. Furthermore, there are four psychedelic rock songs that Antonioni strongly wanted to include

and the 2LP set is reissued on vinyl for the first time since its original release

Just get it in your ears

Psychedelia and Soul led to the band to crossing over into the pop mainstream and gaining an international following

guided by the rhythm section’s otherworldly chemistry and Battalene’s masterful control over her instrument

Coming from Cocker

this opus sees them entering a new phase as a sleeker and still more dangerous swineherd

the tendency towards existentialism and black humour is nuanced with an almost naive openness and engagement

from deep space through telescoping deep time “when the gas clouds / pass away and / the molecules / distribute / all across the fabric / of the horizon” from “the edge of the moat / of the 13th-century castle” to 1996

2017 issue

having previously only been available with the initial UK LP pressing

It’s from the swamp to the city and all points in between

but here we are in 2022 and we are still buzzing about getting out on the road