Get Up with It

Miles Davis 1974 isolated
dark fusion experimental jazz-funk
The last transmission before silence: jazz-funk dissolving into dark ambient drones and exhausted, beautiful desolation.
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Acoustic Profile

Density 8 Spatiality 6 Distortion 6 Tempo 4 Rhythm 8 Harmony 6

Production

Method: hybrid
Fidelity: raw
extended drone piecesorgan-driven dark funkwah-wah layeringproto-ambient long-form

Vocal

Approach: instrumental
Lyrical Abstraction:
10/10

Mood & Theme

melancholy paranoia numbness
Territory: darkness-as-texture, exhaustion-as-art, death-meditation
Emotional Arc: slow-descent-into-darkness

Era & Context

Mid-1970s. Davis increasingly reclusive and unwell. The music became darker, denser, and more alienating before his retirement.

Spiritual Links (2)

Hell James Brown (1974)
6/10
sonic-experimentationimprovisational-freedom
Here, My Dear Marvin Gaye (1978)
5/10
sonic-experimentationalienation-of-fanbase

Influences

Absorbed from

On the Corner — funk-vamp structure Bitches Brew — electric density

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