12 O’Clock Club and Tim Hesse Sent Jazz Orbiting Beyond the Familiar with the Spacey Synths and Smoky Grooves in ‘Current State Unknown’

There’s no bad time to slip into the sonics of 12 O’Clock Club, especially after the arrival of Current State Unknown featuring Tim Hesse. The London-based session bassist Antonio Val, known for lending his pulse to The Streets and Lily Allen, took a sharp creative turn with this project. What began as a remote experiment during a creatively reawakened spell is now bursting out of the screen and into real rooms, inviting listeners to experience jazz that breathes genuine connection. Val’s commitment to live, in-the-room collaboration gives each groove a sense of occasion—nothing gets lost in translation when the musicians are genuinely locked in. If you let yourself savour the title single from the EP, Current State Unknown, the flavours are immediate and unpredictable. Space-age synth lines wind through polyphonic grooves, Tim Hesse’s sax weaving noir textures into the track’s already cosmic palette. The sense of late-night London lingers with every note. Even the most daring fusion artists rarely find these peculiar pockets of funk. Yet Val, with his decade away from the scene and a heart full of lived contradiction, makes this blend feel inevitable. God bless those 80s analogue synths for their ability to launch the listener into […] The post 12 O’Clock Club and Tim Hesse Sent Jazz Orbiting Beyond the Familiar with the Spacey Synths and Smoky Grooves in ‘Current State Unknown’ appeared first on A&R Factory.

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There’s no bad time to slip into the sonics of 12 O’Clock Club, especially after the arrival of Current State Unknown featuring Tim Hesse. The London-based session bassist Antonio Val, known for lending his pulse to The Streets and Lily Allen, took a sharp creative turn with this project. What began as a remote experiment during a creatively reawakened spell is now bursting out of the screen and into real rooms, inviting listeners to experience jazz that breathes genuine connection. Val’s commitment to live, in-the-room collaboration gives each groove a sense of occasion—nothing gets lost in translation when the musicians are genuinely locked in. If you let yourself savour the title single from the EP, Current State Unknown, the flavours are immediate and unpredictable. Space-age synth lines wind through polyphonic grooves, Tim Hesse’s sax weaving noir textures into the track’s already cosmic palette. The sense of late-night London lingers with every note. Even the most daring fusion artists rarely find these peculiar pockets of funk. Yet Val, with his decade away from the scene and a heart full of lived contradiction, makes this blend feel inevitable. God bless those 80s analogue synths for their ability to launch the listener into […]

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