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    [Info]

    Artist       : Esperanza Spalding
    Album        : Songwrights Apothecary Lab
    Label        : Concord Records
    Genre        : Jazz
    Street Date  : 2021-09-24
    Quality      : 243 kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
    Encoder      : Lame 3.100 -V0
    Size         : 112.91MB
    Time         : 60:47 min
    Url          : http://allmusic.com/album/release/songwrights-apothecary-lab-
                   mr0005481061
    [Tracks]

    1.  Formwela 1                                                         3:35
    2.  Formwela 2                                                         6:10
    3.  Formwela 3                                                         7:05
    4.  Formwela 4                                                         4:19
    5.  Formwela 5                                                         3:32
    6.  Formwela 6                                                         3:10
    7.  Formwela 7                                                         3:26
    8.  Formwela 8                                                        11:39
    9.  Formwela 9                                                         4:31
    10. Formwela 10                                                        3:28
    11. Formwela 11                                                        3:08
    12. Formwela 13                                                        6:44


    [Notes]

    Having garnered acclaim for her sophisticated and artful blend of jazz and
    R&B, bassist/vocalist Esperanza Spalding has continued to expand her sound,
    growing increasingly experimental and organic with each album. It's an
    approach she takes to yet another boldly creative level with 2021's
    Songwrights Apothecary Lab. The record shares its title with a class
    Spalding curates at Harvard that's advertised as "half songwriting workshop,
    and half guided-research practice," all of which sounds like it is intended
    to make both the writing and listening of music a more healing and uplifting
    experience. If that sounds somewhat esoteric and pseudo-spiritual, it is.
    Songwrights Apothecary Lab is a gorgeously rendered production that skirts
    the lines between art rock, free jazz, and wordless modern creative
    improvisation. Rather than using distinct song titles, Spalding designates
    each track as a numbered "Formwela," a term that implies something between a
    song, a healing mantra, and a magical incantation. Some, like "Formwela 2"
    with vocalist Ganavya Doraiswamy, are wordless tone poems rich with vibrant
    harmonic colors. Others, like "Formwela 7," are dark theatrical works
    featuring Spalding's half-sung/half-spoken word lyrics against a crashing
    cacophony of horns, all of which evokes the work of the Art Ensemble of
    Chicago. Yet others, including three mid-album songs with
    vocalist/trombonist Corey King, are more lyrical, drawing upon folk and jazz
    influences and showcasing the duo's warm vocal harmonies. While there are
    deeply engaging moments on Songwrights Apothecary Lab, not to mention songs
    of deft compositional precision, it's an album far afield of the post-bop
    jazz, Latin, and R&B that initially earned Spalding attention. It's an
    expansive, challenging album that often feels as if we are hearing each song
    leap out of Spalding in the moment, fully formed or not. Nonetheless, it's
    clear that she is an immensely gifted and technically adept performer,
    something that remains at the forefront of Songwrights Apothecary Lab as she
    bounds with sprite-like joy through her kaleidoscopic formwelas.

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