Kassa Overall - Animals [Clear Vinyl] (New Vinyl LP)

Kassa Overall is a Grammy-nominated musician, emcee, singer, producer and drummer who melds avant-garde experimentation with hip-hop production techniques to tilt the nexus of jazz and rap in unmapped directions. On his Warp Records debut, ANIMALS, Kassa pushes his kaleidoscopic, subversive vision further. He layers Roland 808s against avant-garde drumming in the vein of his mentors Elvin Jones and Billy Hart, the latter of whom he studied with at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Virtuoso musos appear alongside rap poets, including Danny Brown, Wiki, Lil B, and Shabazz Palaces. Top-flight jazz improvisation weaves in and out of orchestral string arrangements by Jherek Bischoff. The album’s diverse, all-star roster of collaborators includes several of his close friends, like vocalists Nick Hakim, Laura Mvula, Francis and the Lights, and jazz stars like Theo Croker and Vijay Iyer.

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A1        No Camera
A2        Anxious Anthony
A3        Ready To Ball
A4        Clock Ticking
A5        Still Ain’t Find Me
A6        Make My Way Back Home
A7        The Lava Is Calm
B1        No It Ain't
B2        So Happy
B3        It’s Animals
B4        Maybe We Can Stay
B5        The Score Was Made
B6        Going Up