Human Feel have been together 30 years now, with no personnel changes in almost as long. Chris Speed, Andrew D'Angelo, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Jim Black had been developing individual and collective vocabularies in this very outfit, which went on to epitomize the ’90s downtown scene. Through it all Human Feel has carried on, and whenever they reconvene they have new musical stories to tell, and old ways of relating, of honing musical structures that depend on precision in the details yet leave much to be determined in performance.
Now Human Feel present 'Gold' 12 years after their last album. The fusion of various musical idioms and the subtle play of calcu- lation and spontaneity provide a highly individual musical langu- age. Jim Black says, “We were joking recently we only make an album every 10 years now ... The past four years we’ve been getting together more often to work on new material, and to record when schedules allow. We had an amazing European tour in November 2017. The band just gets better. We believe more than ever that the four of us making music together is a necessity, and we intend to keep doing it wherever and whenever we can.”

Cover art & graphic design: Jonas Schoder
Photo: Frank Schindelbeck
Liner notes: Kevin Whitehead

Music by Andrew D’Angelo (Brain Music, BMI), Chris Speed (Keopolo Music, BMI), Kurt Rosenwinkel (Zbigniew Music, SESAC) and Jim Black (Stufa Music, BMI). Recorded in 2017 at Heartcore Studios.
Mixed in 2018 by Pete Rende. Mastered in July 2018 by Klaus Scheuermann.