Woods, Jamila
Legacy! Legacy! (color)
Limited "cloudy" pink vinyl LP pressing. Jamila Woods has a voice and lyrical sensibility that transcends generations,
and so it makes sense to have this lush and layered album that bounces seamlessly from one sonic aesthetic to another.
This was the case on 2016's Heavn, which found Woods hopeful and exploratory, looking along the edges resilience and
exhaustion for some measures of joy. Her new album, Legacy! Legacy! Is the logical conclusion to that looking. From the
airy boom-bap of "Giovanni" to the psychedelic flourishes of "Sonia," the instrument which ties the musical threads
together is the ability of Woods to find her pockets in the waves of instrumentation, stretching syllables and vowels
over the harmony of noise until each puzzle piece has a home. The whimsical and malleable nature of sonic delights also
grants a path for collaborators to flourish: the sparkling flows of Nitty Scott on "Sonia" and Saba on "Basquiat," or
the bloom of Nico Segal's horns on "Baldwin." More than just giving the song titles the names of historical black and
brown icons of literature, art, and music, Jamila Woods builds a sonic and lyrical monument to the various modes of how
these icons tried to push beyond the margins a country had assigned to them.
Price
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
10-05-2019
Label
Item-nr
643014
EAN
0656605234236
Availability
Not in stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
BETTY
2
ZORA
3
GIOVANNI
4
SONIA
5
FRIDA
6
EARTHA
1
MILES
2
MUDDY
3
BASQUIAT
4
SUN RA
5
OCTAVIA
6
BALDWIN
7
BETTY (FOR BOOGIE)