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With Elevator Songs, the first collaboration between multi-Grammy-winning vocal group Roomful of Teeth and singer-songwriter/composer Gabriel Kahane, the laws of time and space give way to pure feeling. Here is an album in which fizzy hooks, slippery chord changes, and the sublime counterpoint of eight voices combine to create a singular, panoramic vision. With each song—one for each member of Roomful of Teeth and bookended by a pair of tunes sung by Kahane, who wrote and arranged the entire work—a distinct world emerges in a series of hotel rooms: here, a newlywed undone by the sublime topography of the American Southwest; there, a man in midtown Manhattan writing a eulogy for a young AIDS victim in the late 1980s; here again, a fashion influencer slash spiritual guru recording a podcast episode in a militarized, near-future Texas; there again, a U.S. service member confronting PTSD after tours of Iraq and Afghanistan in the mid-aught. Taken as a whole, the LP is as emotionally enveloping as it is sonically diverse Thick voices are one of my favorite places in which to become lost.

Well I'll be damned!

You don't call it noodling. 👍

B is for Badass.

Had to binge from the benning to do m, but I'm now caught up on Hacks.

When did he joke about breaking you arm?

Strcture and changes. Try some. Funk out the ass.

Miles, in the 80s. It was "different" then, but only in some ways. Didn't bother me at all. Trane - I was not yet 12 when he died

Sounds free to me. The people do.

Randy Wood

Randy Wood

Catchy!!!

He had eyes for Varese. He knew he was trapped, by life. But he remained open and curious up until the end.Because he only heard music. "Avant-garde" is a lazy, bullshit term anyway. So is "free". So are all these labels. Witness the discussion about "what is Honky Tonk?" I'll tell you what it it - it's goddamn Honk Tonk, that's what it is

Sometimes I think I'm Sherlock Holmes. But I'm not, and nothing will ever make it so.

Distinct personality and musical clarity defines itself.

He realized that he was Lou Donaldson and not Charlie Parker.

Jackie

Same voice, expanded vocabulary.