Snarky Puppy - 2019 - Immigrance (HDtracks) [[email protected]]
Artist: Snarky Puppy
Title: Immigrance (HDtracks)
Format: WEB, 8 x files FLAC, Album, Remastered, 24bit 96kHz, HDtracks
Producer: Snarky Puppy, Michael League, Justin Stanton, Mike Maher
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Recorded: 2018-2019 at Atlantic Sound Studios, Brooklyn, NY; Morley College, London, UK and Sonic Ranch Studios, Tornillo, TX
Label: GroundUP
Genre: Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Jazz Rock, Funk, Blues
Duration: 54:22
Snarky Puppy:
Wikipedia:
Snarky Puppy is a Brooklyn-based "fusion-influenced jam band" led by bassist, composer, and producer Michael League. Snarky Puppy combines jazz, rock, and funk and has won three Grammy Awards. Although the group has since included vocalists and has backed singers, League once described Snarky Puppy as "a pop band that improvises a lot, without vocals".
The band was formed by Michael League in Denton, Texas, in 2004 and comprises "...a wide-ranging assemblage of musicians known affectionately as 'the Fam'...", about 40 players who perform on guitar, bass, keyboards, woodwinds, brass, strings, drums, and percussion. Many band members were students at the University of North Texas. Individual members have performed with Erykah Badu, Marcus Miller, Justin Timberlake, Kirk Franklin, Ari Hoenig, Roy Hargrove, David Crosby, Snoop Dogg, and others. While touring, the band frequently gives clinics, workshops, and master classes throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Immigrance:
AllMusic Review by Matt Collar:
Snarky Puppy helped bring '70s-style fusion into the jam band era with a series of Grammy-winning albums that found them incorporating elements of funk, jazz-rock, and blues. Produced by bassist and bandleader Michael League, 2019's Immigrance continues this trajectory with a set of highly kinetic instrumental tracks (purportedly inspired by the band's travels around the globe) that balance exploratory improvisation with intricately arranged group interplay. As with past Snarky Puppy albums, Immigrance is less about each bandmember's individual improvisational contribution (though there are moments of brilliant soloing), and more focused on the group's intricate, mutative arrangements. "Chonks" is swaggering blues-rock bombast punctuated by soulful, jazzy horn parts and thick keyboard riffs. Similarly, "Xavi" is flute-led robo-Latin exotica that slams headlong into a fractured jazz-metal section, all of which brings to mind the work of Japanese guitarist Kazumi Watanabe. Also engaging, "Bigly Strictness" wouldn't sound out of place on a '90s alt-rock album by Garbage, and "Bling Bling" could easily be the backing track to a '90s Sting song. There are also new agey moments here, as on the '80s-sounding Miles Davis-meets-Pat Metheny atmospherics of "Coven." The slow jam of "While We're Young" also recalls the later-career work of Davis with its multi-tracked trumpet solo dipped in silvery effects. Elsewhere, "Bad Kids to the Back" delivers an '80s funk groove, replete with clipped horns and a flowing sax solo, while "Even Us" finds the band taking an unexpected turn toward brooding, acoustic Eastern European folk. Ultimately, the evocative nature of much of Snarky Puppy's music on Immigrance lends it a soundtrack vibe, as if each song were originally scored to the visual, cinematic beats of one of the band's world tours.
Tracklist:
01. Chonks (8:32)
02. Bigly Strictness (7:37)
03. Coven (6:38)
04. Bling Bling (5:55)
05. Xavi (9:31)
06. While We're Young (2:41)
07. Bad Kids to the Back (5:45)
08. Even Us (7:43)
Personnel:
Zach Brock - Violin
Chris Bullock - Arranger, Bansuri, Bass, Clarinet, Clarinet (Bass), Composer, Flute, Flute (Alto), Metal Pipes, Producer, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor), Soloist
Jay Jennings - Flugelhorn, Soloist, Trumpet
Bob Lanzetti - Guitar (Electric), Sitar (Electric)
Bill Laurance - Clavinet, Fender Rhodes, Mellotron, Piano, Prophet 5, Roland Juno 6
Michael League - Arranger, Bass (Electric), Composer, Graphic Design, Handclapping, Mini Moog, Mixing, Moog Bass, Oud, Producer
Mark Lettieri - Guitar (Baritone), Guitar (Electric), Soloist
Larnell Lewis - Angklung, Cajon, Drums
Mike Maher - Arranger, Composer, Flugelhorn, Producer, Soloist, Trumpet
Shaun Martin - Keyboards, Mini Moog, Soloist
Chris McQueen - Guitar (Electric), Soloist
Keita Ogawa - Bendir, Bougarabou Drums, Cabasa, Caxixi, Congas, Darbouka, Handclapping, Metal Percussion, Riqq, Tambourine, Timbales
Bob Reynolds - Sax (Tenor), Soloist
Jamison Ross - Drums
Snarky Puppy - Arranger, Primary Artist, Producer
Bobby Sparks - Clavinet, Hammond B3, Mellotron, Mini Moog, Organ, Soloist
Justin Stanton - Arranger, Composer, Fender Rhodes, Mellotron, Mini Moog, Piano, Producer, Prophet 5, Soloist, Trumpet
Jason J.T. Thomas - Drums
Nate Werth - Bendir, Cabasa, Congas, Cowbell, Darbouka, Handclapping, Metal Percussion, Shaker, Tambourine, Timbales
Marcelo Woloski - Bendir, Bongos, Congas, Darbouka, Doholla, Effects, Finger Cymbals, Handclapping, Metal Percussion, Timbales, Triangle
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