Kassa Overall - CREAM - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Kassa Overall is a Grammy-nominated musician, emcee, singer, producer and drummer who melds avant-garde experimentation with hip-hop production techniques to tilt the nexus of jazz and rap in unmapped directions. On his Warp Records debut, ANIMALS, Kassa pushes his kaleidoscopic, subversive vision further. He layers Roland 808s against avant-garde drumming in the vein of his mentors Elvin Jones and Billy Hart, the latter of whom he studied with at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Virtuoso musos appear alongside rap poets, including Danny Brown, Wiki, Lil B, and Shabazz Palaces. Top-flight jazz improvisation weaves in and out of orchestral string arrangements by Jherek Bischoff. The album's diverse, all-star roster of collaborators includes several of his close friends, like vocalists Nick Hakim, Laura Mvula, Francis and the Lights, and jazz stars like Theo Croker and Vijay Iyer.1. No Camera 2. Anxious Anthony (feat. Anthony Ware) 3. Ready To Ball 4. Clock Ticking (feat. Danny Brown & Wiki) 5. Still Ain't Find Me (feat. Tomoki Sanders, Bendji Allonce, Mike King & Ian Fink) 6. Make My Way Back Home (feat. Nick Hakim & Theo Croker) 7. The Lava Is Calm (feat. Theo Croker) 8. No It Ain't (feat. Andrae Murchison) 9. So Happy (feat. Laura Mvula & Francis and the Lights) 10. It's Animals 11. Maybe We Can Stay (feat. J. Hoard) 12. The Score Was Made (feat. Vijay Iyer) 13. Going Up (feat. Lil B, Shabazz Palaces & Francis and the Lights) Album Tracks 1. No Camera 2. Anxious Anthony 3. Ready to Ball 4. Clock Ticking 5. Still Ain't Find Me 6. Make My Way Back Home 7. Lava Is Calm 8. No It Ain't 9. So Happy 10. It's Animals 11. Maybe We Can Stay 12. Score Was Made 13. Going Up

Album Tracks 1. Clap Your Hands 2. Dança de Duas Mãos 3. Is It This? 4. Stomp Your Feet 5. Moola Umemo 6. Tico Tico 7. Flat Palm Avenue 8. Out from the Rock

Bassist Kim Cass is among a vanguard group of Brooklyn-based improvisors who are creating works at the leading-edge of rhythmic acuity. Levs, his debut with Pi Recordings, features pianist Matt Mitchell and drummer Tyshawn Sorey, who called Cass Incha singular composer and player the man can do things that doesn't seem possible on the bass, displaying a technical command of the instrument on the level of the most celebrated virtuosic performers in any genre of music.Inch The compositions on Levs are deeply idiosyncratic, built on stilts of complex, polyrhythmic structures over a sea of harmonic murkiness. Cass plays with a precision - often combining with the piano as a unified voice - that seems beyond the instrument's technical limitations. Sorey's structured improvisations on the drums alternately reinforces and disrupts. It might project a façade of free improvisation, but exists as the direct result of intense, energetic coordination. Levs is volatile yet dreamlike, and imbued with a sense of ominous mystery. Album Tracks 1. Slag 2. Fog Face 3. GS 4. Levs 5. Time 6. Ripley 7. Rumple 8. Jungle 9. Body 10. Tentacle 11. Sea Vine 12. Minor 13. Trench