180g Vinyl Double LP!
Dream team band R+R=NOWfeaturing Robert Glasper on keyboards, Terrace Martin on synthesizer and vocoder, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah on trumpet, Derrick Hodge on bass, Taylor McFerrin on synth and beatbox, and Justin Tyson on drumsrelease their debut album Collagically Speaking.
The bands DNA is evident in the songs woozy soul with Martin's robo-coo floating like a hallucination over a lush scene rooted by Hodges warm bass and featuring a breezy Glasper piano solo that crests in a sudden burst from Tyson.
Okayplayer wrote that R+R=NOW consists of some of the brightest and baddest musicians in the game today, adding that the albums first single Change Of Tone finds R+R=NOW fluidly showcasing their individual sounds as a cohesive blend expressing hope, love, confidence, and resiliency through their respective melodies. Stereogum declared the song a powerful introduction to the band, highlighting each members skill and spirit, while Paste called it a hybrid encompassing all of black musichip-hop, R&B, jazz, soul, funkwith its layered instrumental laying out black excellence.
In an era when every headline carries some new horror or fresh worry, we need music that can clap back with immediacy, skill, and heart. We need a band so at home in its skin that it can play without ego and lead with loveartists whose very existence attests to resilience and hope. We need R+R=NOW, a supergroup assembled by Glasper but functionally egalitarian, in no small part because its members are visionary players, composers, and producers on their own. This genre-mashing outfit moves as one and, as their name reveals, with great purpose.
Collagically Speaking isn't some wonky thesis on the state of the nation. Its a raw document that seamlessly adheres neo-soul to future-funk, West Coast jazz of the moment to astral electronica, instrumental hip-hop to musique concrète, avant-garde to classicalthese are single-take songs, written live in the room, that go wherever this formidable crew's mood goes.
Features:
&bull Double LP
&bull 180g Vinyl
&bull Gatefold jacket
Musicians:
Robert Glasper
Terrace Martin
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
Derrick Hodge
Taylor McFerrin
Justin Tyson
Selections:
Side A:
1. Change of Tone
2. Awake To You
3. By Design
Side B:
1. Resting Warrior
2. Needed You Still
3. Colors In the Dark
Side C:
1. The Night In Question
2. Reflect Reprise
3. HER=NOW
Side D:
1. Respond
2. Been On My Mind
Dream team band R+R=NOWfeaturing Robert Glasper on keyboards, Terrace Martin on synthesizer and vocoder, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah on trumpet, Derrick Hodge on bass, Taylor McFerrin on synth and beatbox, and Justin Tyson on drumsrelease their debut album Collagically Speaking.
The bands DNA is evident in the songs woozy soul with Martin's robo-coo floating like a hallucination over a lush scene rooted by Hodges warm bass and featuring a breezy Glasper piano solo that crests in a sudden burst from Tyson.
Okayplayer wrote that R+R=NOW consists of some of the brightest and baddest musicians in the game today, adding that the albums first single Change Of Tone finds R+R=NOW fluidly showcasing their individual sounds as a cohesive blend expressing hope, love, confidence, and resiliency through their respective melodies. Stereogum declared the song a powerful introduction to the band, highlighting each members skill and spirit, while Paste called it a hybrid encompassing all of black musichip-hop, R&B, jazz, soul, funkwith its layered instrumental laying out black excellence.
In an era when every headline carries some new horror or fresh worry, we need music that can clap back with immediacy, skill, and heart. We need a band so at home in its skin that it can play without ego and lead with loveartists whose very existence attests to resilience and hope. We need R+R=NOW, a supergroup assembled by Glasper but functionally egalitarian, in no small part because its members are visionary players, composers, and producers on their own. This genre-mashing outfit moves as one and, as their name reveals, with great purpose.
Collagically Speaking isn't some wonky thesis on the state of the nation. Its a raw document that seamlessly adheres neo-soul to future-funk, West Coast jazz of the moment to astral electronica, instrumental hip-hop to musique concrète, avant-garde to classicalthese are single-take songs, written live in the room, that go wherever this formidable crew's mood goes.
Features:
&bull Double LP
&bull 180g Vinyl
&bull Gatefold jacket
Musicians:
Robert Glasper
Terrace Martin
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
Derrick Hodge
Taylor McFerrin
Justin Tyson
Selections:
Side A:
1. Change of Tone
2. Awake To You
3. By Design
Side B:
1. Resting Warrior
2. Needed You Still
3. Colors In the Dark
Side C:
1. The Night In Question
2. Reflect Reprise
3. HER=NOW
Side D:
1. Respond
2. Been On My Mind
