Songs for Sinners is drummer and producer Moses Boyd’s first album in six years, one he’s been thinking about since he was 16. Boyd’s project explores the tensions of spiritual faith and doubt as human forces capable of comforting, dividing, unsettling, and restoring balance via a highly individual meld of contemporary jazz, modern gospel, Caribbean rhythms, and soundsystem culture with individual voices, a choir, and deft musicianship over a dozen tracks.
“Precious” is introduced by Boyd’s shimmering electronics and drums, an electric bass, hand percussion, and organ before Donovan Haffner’s bluesy saxophone and the Kitchen Choir (family members and others recorded in Boyd’s kitchen) paint a blissfully sacred groove.
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After four consecutive English language albums Ed Motta returns to singing in Brazilian Portuguese on Toc-Toc. A significant shift to be sure, but it’s not the only one. Motta always surrounds himself with the best studio musicians in Brazil. In sharp contrast, Toc-Toc was recorded in his apartment. He programmed and/or played all instruments and provided all voices. Co-produced with longtime collaborator Michel Limma, Motta received lyric assistance from comic book artist and spouse Edna Lopes. His goal was to bring two different genres of contemporary music together: Electronica and traditionally structured songwriting. He regards this as a pop-R&B album threaded with jazz influences. One can hear trace elements of artists who fascinated him while growing up,…
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