Description: Esperanza Spalding 12 Little Spells AUDIO CD BRAND NEW & FACTORY SEALED Concord Records CRE00897 UPC | 888072082106 2019 TRACK LISTING 1. 12 Little Spells 2. To Tide Us Over 3. Til the Next Full 4. Thang 5. Touch in Mine 6. The Longing Deep Down 7. You Have to Dance 8. Now Know 9. All Limbs Are 10. Readying to Rise 11. Dancing the Animal 12. With Others 13. Lest We Forget (Blood) 14. How to (Hair) 15. Move Many (Joints) 16. Ways Together Coming off her inventive 2016 album Emily's D+Evolution, singer/bassist Esperanza Spalding offers another highly conceptualized production with 2019's kaleidoscopically tactile 12 Little Spells. Where Spalding's previous work was built around a central character, here she offers 12 songs each explicitly inspired by a separate body part, such as the mouth, eyes, fingers, and yet more esoteric parts like the "solar portal." Joining her on this tactile journey of sensation are longtime associates guitarist Matthew Stevens and drummer Justin Tyson. Together they craft deeply ambient, intricately constructed songs that fall yet further afield of the crossover jazz, fusion, and R&B that garnered Spalding so much of her early praise. In that sense, the album is a worthy follow-up to Emily's D+Evolution and 2012's Radio Music Society, but one that may keep her more jazz-oriented fans at arm's length. In every way, Spalding doubles down on her neo-prog, art rock, and avant-garde influences, offering songs rife with harmonically and rhythmically inventive soundscapes, as well as lyrics that read very much like poetry. Many of the songs, especially the opening title track, have a dreamy, off-kilter vibe that evokes the trippy sounds of 1970s children's educational programming, like Sesame Street and The Electric Company. Similarly, the hips-oriented "Thang," with its gospel church organ and bluesy vocal harmonies, sounds like a lost number from the musical Hair, while the fingers-centric "Touch in Mine" brings to mind the sensual grooves of '90s Janet Jackson. Bear in mind, none of these songs are mainstream pop hits; they often feel more like aural art installations than conventional rock or pop tunes. But interestingly, Spalding has made an album where each song begs to be judged on its own terms, even as the overall concept builds to a singular, whole idea. While her often avant-garde and circularly hypnotic songs tend to meet your ears as an enveloping wash, she still manages to grab your attention with startlingly inventive midsections, as on "With Others," where she changes up the rhythm, synching up her vocals with Stevens' guitar line and singing "I've been learning about psychology, neurobiology, avarice/Now I can't rest 'cause everything reeks of basic needs." Sensuality and the battle between mind, body, and soul are themes Spalding continually returns to throughout 12 Little Spells. There's even a song called "The Longing Deep Down" that's all about the abdomen. It's those basic, bodily needs both connected to and often working against our logical minds that seem to fascinate and inspire her. On the legs-focused "Readying to Rise," she sings "All the limbs are readying to rise/Dancing the animal, while the animal in you guards the tangible in you." -------------------------------------- Personnel: Esperanza Spalding (vocals, piano, organ, electric bass, bass drum); Matthew Stevens (vocals, guitar, guitars, arch guitar, strings, electric bass); Justin Tyson (vocals, organ, synthesizer, drums, programming); Morgan Guerin (vocals, synthesizer, bass synthesizer, electric bass); Burniss Travis (vocals, acoustic bass, electric bass); Corey King (vocals); Aaron Burnett (saxophone); Rob Schwimmer (synthesizer) SHIPPING TO USA ONLY Buyer Pays Shipping $3.99 1st CD $3.99... each additional $1.50 CDs will only be combined with other CDs or DVDs To qualify for the combined discount, all items must be purchased together, paid for with 1 payment, and shipped all together in 1 shipment. Please use the add to cart feature, once you have ordered all your desired items, proceed to checkout to complete your order with the combined total.
Price: 12.98 USD
Location: Gold River, California
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Features: Digipak
Format: CD
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
CD Grading: Mint (M)
Record Label: Concord Records
Case Type: Digipak
Language: English
Release Title: 12 Little Spells
Artist: Esperanza Spalding
Release Year: 2019
Style: Latin, Pop, Jazz Funk/Fusion, Soul Jazz, Fusion, Jazz Funk
Genre: Jazz, Rock
Case Condition: Mint (M)
Inlay Condition: Mint (M)
Type: Album
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