IDK - Is He Real? - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

USEE4YOURSELF is the new album from IDK, featuring Young Thug, Offset, Rico Nasty, T-Pain, Swae Lee, Sevyn Streeter, Slick Rick, and more.

Finnish bassist Antti Lotjonen returns in February 2023 with his second Quintet East album on We Jazz Records. With Verneri Pohjola on trumpet, Mikko Innanen and Jussi Kannaste on saxes, and Joonas Riippa on drums, Quintet East is a hard-hitting ensemble of Helsinki scene A-listers. The new sees the quintet work with Lotjonen's inspired new music with remarkable spirit, spreading out on a quest for new sounds and ideas, and returning to base with a fresh batch of acoustic creative music, wild to the bone even when sounding completely in control.Circus/Citadel is essentially a coherent album, rather than a series of loosely connected compositions. There's plenty of diversity within Lotjonen's compositions and the band's dynamics, yet it all flows into one effortlessly, creating a suite of sorts, even outside of the title composition which consists of three parts. During the course of the album, the quintet often gets together in smaller formations in trios and duos of different combinations of the players. The music breathes and maintains it's energy at all times, leaving plenty of headroom for the all-out quintet 'attacks' when needed. It all comes together in a shape that feels unified and cyclical, leaving the listener hungry for repeated listens in order to get deeper into the many layers found within.The artwork displays a freeform graphic score of the music by We Jazz artistic director and designer Matti Nives. The vinyl version is housed in a heavy duty tip-on sleeve with silver-embossed lettering.Antti Lotjonen says 'These compositions vary in terms of form and density, with each player having enough room to re-invent and expand on the music within the pieces. I wrote this music over a relatively brief time span. This, I think, is something you can also hear on the album, as the temporal closeness of the ideas brings with it a certain kind of unity. The worl

F65 about sparking a conversation that feels good. It is meant to be a rare conversation about what it's like to be a person of color around the world. Despite it's sometimes heavy matter, the music is meant to feel good, therefore creating much-needed dialogue about topics that most tend to avoid... That is if you wish to do anything other than just enjoy the music. F65's musical concept comes from my love for juxtaposition. The feeling of driving my Mercedes AMG at high speeds to calming jazz music created a contrast that is now the melodic influence of F65. Every melody was meant to feel like you're speeding to jazz music. - IDK. Tracklisting 1. Cape Coast 2. Pit Stop 3. Thug Tear (feat. Fat Trel) 4. Champs-Élysées 5. Salty (feat. NLE Choppa) 6. D.S.T.P 7. Mr. Police 8. Pinot Noir (feat. Jucee Froot & Saucy Santana) 9. Paperchaser 10. Elmina (feat. Tay Iwar) 11. Georgetown 12. Radioactive 13. Know Interlude (feat. Musiq Souldchild) 14. Télé Couleur 15. Rabbit Stew 16. 850 (We On Top) [feat. Rich The Kid] 17. Middle Passage (feat. Snoop Dogg) 18. Still Your Man 19. St. Nicholas & 118th 20. Up The Score (feat. Benny The Butcher) 21. Superwoman (feat. Musiq Soulchild) 22. Freetown.