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Artist......: Kassa Overall
Album.......: I Think I'm Good
Label.......: Brownswood Recordings
Genre.......: Jazz
Catnr.......: BWOOD0219CD
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2020-07-22
Str.date....: 2020-02-28
Quality.....: 840 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://kassaoverall.com
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1. Visible Walls 3:04
2. Please Don't Kill Me (feat. Joel Ross and Theo 2:59
Croker)
3. Find Me (feat. J Hoard) 4:52
4. I Know You See Me (feat. J Hoard and Melanie 3:21
Charles)
5. Sleeping on the Train 1:05
6. Show Me a Prison (feat. J Hoard and Angela 3:42
Davis)
7. Halfway House 3:45
8. Landline (feat. Carlos Overall) 2:23
9. Darkness in Mind (feat. Sullivan Fortner) 6:01
10. The Best of Life (feat. Aaron Parks) 1:56
11. Got Me a Plan 3:03
12. Was She Happy (For Geri Allen) (feat. Vijay 3:44
Iyer)
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,: Seattle-raised, Brooklyn-residing Kassa Overall is a jazz :,
: musician, emcee, singer, producer, and drummer. His second, :
:' full-length album, I THINK IÆM GOOD, is the work of an artist ':
,: whose voice has ripened to its own hard-earned, provocative :,
: conclusions, erasing the need to talk about dissolving barriers :
:' between hip hop and jazz because he has begun a new ':
,: conversation. :,
: :
:' I THINK IÆM GOOD is a window into the real life of Overall, a ':
,: Bushwick-based artist wrestling with the abhorrent American :,
: prison system, the ebbs and flows of romantic relationships, and :
:' perils of trust, all seen through the kaleidoscopic lens of a ':
,: brilliant 21st century composer. The backdrop to these varied :,
: themes is Overall confronting his experience with mental :
:' illness, which included a manic episode and subsequent ':
,: hospitalisation when he was a student. Themes of incarceration :,
: and claustrophobia weave through the record, but never drown out :
:' the feeling of a fragile but vital hope. ':
,: :,
: ôMental instability or hyper-sensitivity was something that felt :
:' too taboo to talk about," said Overall. "I want to show the ':
,: world that mentally sensitive people are the innovators of our :,
: society, and hopefully set a new standard that includes a :
:' healthy way of life and embracing our unique perspective on ':
,: reality.ö :,
: :
:' Recent years have seen something of a worldwide movement making ':
,: jazz and improvised music relevant to fresh audiences, providing :,
: a critical cultural counterpoint to feelings of political :
:' disenfranchisement and globalised anxiety. Exciting scenes are ':
,: springing out of grassroots musical communities from London to :,
: Melbourne, Chicago to Johannesburg. But perhaps the most vital :
:' of these scenes remains in New York, a city that is still ':
,: ground zero for the most competitive jazz musicians in the :,
: world, a community that continues unbroken from Charlie Parker :
:' to the present. This is OverallÆs home turf, and it shows on I ':
,: THINK IÆM GOOD, which is a tour de force of New YorkÆs brightest :,
: young up-and-comers (Joel Ross, Morgan Guerin, Julius Rodriguez, :
:' Melanie Charles, J Hoard) as well as some of its more ':
,: established fixtures, including Sullivan Fortner, Brandee :,
: Younger, Theo Croker, Craig Taborn, Aaron Parks, and Vijay Iyer. :
:' IyerÆs contribution is a gorgeous, melancholic tribute to their ':
,: shared musical mentor, Geri Allen, with whom Overall played for :,
: seven years. Dr. Angela Davis, a longtime jazz supporter and fan :
:' of OverallÆs work, makes a recorded cameo, punctuating the ':
,: albumÆs dive into the human condition and exploration of social :,
: justice. :
:' ':
,: Like Karriem Riggins before him, Overall belongs to a rare class :,
: of musicians naturally fluent in both jazz performance and :
:' hip-hop production. HeÆs also a clear contemporary of brazen, ':
,: potent genre-shifters like Madlib, Flying Lotus, Solange, and :,
: Kendrick Lamar. Yet one of the most striking aspects of I THINK :
:' IÆM GOOD is its singular intimacy, a byproduct of OverallÆs ':
,: indie hustle and uncanny at-home and on-the-fly production :,
: methods. In fact, most of the album happened out of OverallÆs :
:' Bushwick bedroom and a backpack. "IÆve recently begun to think ':
,: of myself as a backpack jazz producer, which is something like a :,
: cross between a jazz musician, a backpack rapper and a bedroom :
:' producer," said Overall, who mostly used a skeletal mobile ':
,: studio (laptop, a simple audio interface, and microphone), :,
: giving the album a distinctively inward, almost confidential :
:' flavour. ':
,: :,
: But Overall describes his method as being a far more social :
:' endeavour than bedroom production. "The bedroom producer is ':
,: mostly solitary and stationary, but the backpack producer is :,
: collaborative, mobile, and totally improvisatory in the truest :
:' sense of our tradition. My studio is with me almost all the ':
,: time. I need to be able to work whenever and wherever, at my own :,
: pace.ö :
:' ':
,: As Time Out New York frames his talent, Overall is ôa :,
: Renaissance man: part chopsy, super-funky jazz drummer, and part :
:' rising producer-MC.ö Since the January 2019 release of Ice ':
,: Cream, NYC and global audiences have had the opportunity to :,
: experience OverallÆs singular brilliance, which has been :
:' embraced with rave reviews from The New York Times, AFROPUNK, ':
,: Downbeat, NPR, BBC Radio 6 Music, and other influential media :,
: outlets. :
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