John Warren - Traveller's Tale - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Bolcom / Oppens / Taylor - Music for Solo Piano [COMPACT DISCS] 3 Pack date 12/01/2017

Tenor saxophonist leads his group through the InchgrooveInch sounds of the 70's w. Bernard Purdie-drms, Joey Defrancesco-organ, Rodney Jones-gtr, Tracy Wormsworth-bss

When Aesop Rock debuted in the late 90s with Music For Earthworms and Appleseed, Blockhead was also a part of the process, not only as a producer, but also helping coordinate sales of the CDRs to hungry Hip Hop fans. Blockhead and Aesop continued to collaborate, creating an impressive list of songs along the way, including two of Aesop's most popular songs to date; InchDaylightInch and InchNone Shall PassInch. In recent years, Blockhead has contributed production, as well as remixes, to many of Aesop's solo releases and group projects, and Aesop has made a handful of guest features on Blockhead's solo projects, but in all that time, Aesop and Block have never done a full album together, until now!Garbology came together over the course of the pandemic, as well as in the midst of Aesop processing the loss of a close friend in January of 2020, resulting in a period of time of feeling uncreative. Looking back on that time that feels both like yesterday and forever-ago, Aesop recalls, InchThe world got real weird during those months. I knew at some point I had to get back to making something. Make a beat. Draw a picture. Write. Just go. But the idea of making a beat felt like math homework, and drawing is just so hard. Writing is hard too, but at some point I had to pick one.Inch With writing as the chosen path, Aesop hit up Blockhead to send over some beats. At the beginning there wasn't a plan for an album, or any particular plan beyond creating some songs. However, it wasn't long before one song became a few, and then a handful, until finally an album was born.Garbology encapsulates the soundtrack of current times, capturing a snapshot of Aes and Block expressing a means of entertaining themselves in the midst of less social interactions than usual, Inchanchored on a goulash of cabin fever, fear, anger and boredomInch, as Aesop describes it.As for the album title, Aeso