Songs from Mechelle Ndegeocello’s amazing new album “”Omnicode’s Real Book” always in flux. At seven and a half minutes, “ASR” suggests fusion jazz, funkadelic, Ethiopian pop, reggae, and psychedelia. Tortoise guitarist Jeff Parker takes the music forward. As the song accelerates, Ndegeocello sings about pain, heartbreak, healing, and perseverance, vowing, “We’re here to set the clocks right here and now.”John Pareles
Peggy Goo “(It Goes Like) Nanana”
Peggy Gou is a South Korean-born, Berlin-based DJ and producer with a penchant for dreamy house beats and velvety touches. Her latest single, “(It Goes Like) Nanana,” is a bit like her own personal arrangement of ATC’s ubiquitous 2000 hit. “all around the world,” But it clearly has a kinetic energy that is her own. She “can’t explain,” Goh sings over a throbbing beat and lilting piano riff, deciding that the best way to express her feelings is in nonsense words. “It’s like Nana-Nana-Nana-Na.”Lindsay Zoraz
Doja Cat “Attention”
Doja Cat returns with revenge on the menacing “Attention”. This album is a statement record (for now, at least) that puts her pop sensibility aside and focuses on her prolific skills as an MC. As she begins to sing, she commands the floor with charismatic grit for the next few minutes. “Baby, if you like it, reach out and pet her,” she sings in a hook that recalls ’90s R&B, but filtered through Doja’s alien sensibilities. But the poem is pure poison. “You guys fall for beef, but that’s a different conversation,” she spits with a characteristic fire in her throat. “Sorry, but we all think it’s really funny.”
Killer Mike featuring Future, Andre 3000, Erin Allen Kane “Scientists & Engineers”
Ambition and accomplishment, electronics and exhilaration are all present in “Scientist & Engineer” on Killer Mike’s first solo album “Michael” since forming Run The Jewels with LP. there is “Scientists & Engineers” features five producers, including James Blake and No ID. The track pulsates with keyboard chords under the elusive André 3000 (Outkast), who claims that “rebellion is like an itch.” The music switches to slick guitar chords as Future sings, “Better banished in a world of envy.” Then the beat opens with trap drums and blipping synths behind Killer Mike, who boasts in a quick triplet, “I’m not depressed, I have to make millions.” With multi-track Erin Allen Kane oozing choir-like harmonies and gospel-esque sentiments like “I’ll live forever,” the rappers redefine themselves.parel
Fiona Apple’s Fresh Eater “Comforzone”
None other than Fiona Apple has decided to collaborate with Nashville avant-pop group Fresh Eater on a whimsical seven-minute excursion called “Comforzone.” Over programmed low-sputtering beats and explosions of noise and electronics, Fresh Eater lead singer Zvir AR sings a hopscotch melody reminiscent of Dirty Projectors. Sprinkled with piano, Apple finally adds vocal harmonies to refrains like “The field of sunflowers that turned their backs on me/I’m on the train.” It is both artistic and willful.parel
Sparkle Horse “Evening Star Supercharger”
Mark Linkous was working on his fifth album with Sparklehorse when he died by suicide in 2010. His family and several collaborators have now completed the album, which will be released in September as ‘Bird Machine’. Preview His single, “Evening Star Supercharger,” is a laid-back folk topped with toy piano notes, and Linkous ponders death and melancholy, albeit inexplicably, detachedly. “There will be peace without pills, guns, needles, and prayers/Never found near by now and then, but too often to see clearly.” I’m looking “She’s dying, but she’s getting big.”parel
Omar Ray “Reason”
Nigerian singer Omar Ray divides his songs between partying and self-doubt. he also Justin Bieber. “Reason”, taken from the newly expanded version of 2022’s Boy Alone album, contains minor chords and the lines “Now I don’t know who to run to / The army is starting a heavy bombardment”. Contains severe scenarios. The beat is light, but the tone is tense.parel
David Villeles “Uncommon Sense”
For Cuban-born pianist, composer and folklorist David Villeres, a low shuffle beat is not the most common setting. But Vireles’ new LP, Carta, is all about him and his feelings. first visit after a long time Bassist Ben Street and Eric MacPherson, an innovator and tradition bearer of today’s jazz drumming. This is the closest Villeles has come to producing a standard-format jazz trio album, but it’s still not exactly so. In the opener, “Uncommon Sense,” MacPherson’s shuffle begins after a 25-second piano solo, while Villeles lays the groundwork for the Cubist phrase already at the heart of the song, before taking a tense path with whimsical key changes. leading things. McPherson’s elegantly splattering drum style. traditional grip Playing with influences from the contemporary side, such as the physical narrative of Don Pullen’s piano playing, Craig Taborn’s splitting and overlapping of harmonies, and the rhythmic restraint of the music, to develop rhythms as close to the ground as possible. During his time there, he has been a firm supporter of Villeres. Gonzalo Rubalcaba. Even if you don’t say this album was recorded at Van Gelder Studios, you know it tells a story of jazz history: the antique, the modern and the nascent. .Giovanni Russonero
Ben van Gelder “Spectrum”
Up-and-coming bandleader Ben Van Gelder’s new album Manifold celebrates that voice. His saxophone sound, pipe organ voice, human voice, and the collective voice of an eight-piece band.each has its own grain. organs has its own prominent side story in the history of jazz, but Amsterdam-based van Gelder uses dissonance and space to draw on contemporary classical composers like Arvo Pärt and Gyorgy Ligeti. close to, picking out from another stream. Veracruz-born vocalist Fuensanta sings without words on the album’s centerpiece, “Spectrum.” She joins the horn to sound like just another reed instrument. Underneath, Kit Downes switches between minimalism and the high-pitched waves of a pipe organ.Russonero
Elliott Sharp “Rosette”
Composer Elliott Sharp has been devising systems of pitch and structure since the 1970s. His latest album ‘Steppe’ is inspired by geography. This is the music of his 6 vintage overdubbed electric steel guitars, microtonically tuned and arranged in stereo, exploring texture and resonance. “Rosettes” are built from small, overlapping runs in a quick, cascading, staggered fashion. Sharp like a bell, it crumbles and gathers again.parel
