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構成数 |
1 |
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輸入 (International Version) |
パッケージ仕様 |
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発売日 |
2019年05月10日 |
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規格品番 |
7208210 |
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SKU |
888072082106 |
本作は、グラミー賞で2部門に輝いた2012年の『ラジオ・ミュージック・ソサイエティ』、2016年作品『エミリーズ・D+エヴォルーション』、77時間ライヴ・ストリーミングをしながら録音し全世界7,777枚限定で2017年に世界リリースされた実験的アルバム『Exposure』(日本盤未発売)に続く7作目のアルバム。本作は芸術と癒しの特性、音楽と身体の相互作用、また民間療法のレイキ・ヒーリングにエスペランサが関心を持ち触発されて、それぞれの楽曲は身体の各パーツをテーマに作曲されたもの。パーツ(曲)にはそれぞれ呪文がついており、いわばエスペランサによるヒーリング・アルバムといえる内容となっている。作曲はイタリアにある城で行われ、ブルックリンに戻り仲間たちとわずか数日間レコーディング。そして、まずは2018年10月7日から18日までの12日間、毎日12時12分(EST)に自身のFacebook、Instagram、ウェブサイト上で1曲ずつミュージック・ビデオと呪文を公開、その後2018年10月19日にストリーミング・サービスでのみアルバムをリリースした。このアルバムが、新たに身体の4パーツにためにブルックリンで作曲、レコーディングした新曲4曲と4つの呪文を加えた形で、フィジカルとデジタル・ダウンロード・ストアでリリースとなる。
構成数 | 1枚
合計収録時間 | 01:11:31
Personnel: Esperanza Spalding (vocals, piano, organ, electric bass); Matthew Stevens (vocals, guitar, 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). Audio Mixer: Fernando Lodeiro. Recording information: Atomic Sound. Photographer: Carmen Daneshmandi. 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." ~ Matt Collar
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1.12 Little Spells
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2.To Tide Us Over
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3.'Til The Next Full
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4.Thang
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5.Touch In Mine
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6.The Longing Deep Down
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7.You Have To Dance
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8.Now Know
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9.All Limbs Are
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10.Readying To Rise
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11.Dancing The Animal
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12.With Others
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13.Lest We Forget (blood)
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14.How To (hair)
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15.Move Many (joints)
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16.Ways Together
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