40. "cory wong and jon batiste - meditations" In response to In response to 0 Tue Jun-16-20 08:12 AM by thebigfunk
wong - guitar batiste - piano nate smith - drums sam yahel - organ/keys
This is a really quiet, expansive record -- if RTJ4 fits the time in a certain way right now, this fits the time in the opposite way if that makes any sense ... these feel like spaces intentionally carved out for refuge and contemplation.
Hushed drums, slow and elongated piano and guitar lines. Yahel shows really thoughtful use of the organ as an almost ambient part of the music, so that you often don't notice that it is there in the background until it shifts, and in that shift you recognize that it has been there all along and is almost driving a lot of the sound scene in a way. The cuts themselves are fully developed and full in sound despite the fact that there's a minimalism about them. It actually reminded me of some of the Brian Blade Fellowship records in that way.
I enjoyed it a lot.
edit: another point of reference would be Bill Frisell's quieter records