A lot of the time with music, I tend to think that where and how you listen to it becomes a massive part of how you end up interpreting it. Earlier today, I downloaded New York multi-instrumentalist and producer Afrikan Sciences's forthcoming new 2-tracker on ESP Institute, chucked on the headphones and listened to it on a bus ride into the city, and; wow.

What I just wrote is a bit reductionist. After all, most music sounds better with a bit of motion involved (listen to an album you love on a train ride, or while out walking or running, you know what I mean), but the sense of atmosphere and ambience (rhythmic ambient?) Afrikan Sciences's musters on "Have It Tall" and "Daily Gates" is rather special.

Styled like a free-form jam session "Have It Tall" sees Afrikan Sciences's working at breakneck speed to construct an ever-shifting percussive scaffold around a very pure synth chord progression, with the odd burst of bass and Rhodes piano blowing past like a breeze. It's physical movement-based, but also very much an exploration of the mind's eye. On the flipside "Daily Gates", sneaky-footed upright bass dances with slightly pixelated synth chords, before percussive elements and some heroic guitar work weave their way into the picture. As this is all going on, the overall composition slowly levitates, eventually teleporting us from something resembling a jazz nightclub to the otherworldly hinterlands of an alien world.

You can listen to some sample clips of "Have It Tall b​/​w Daily Gates" below, and pre-order the 12" or digital over (here).