Collagically Speaking - R+R=NOW

Dream team band and super group R+R=NOW - featuring Robert Glasper on keyboards, Terrace Martin on synthesizer and vocoder, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah on trumpet, Derrick Hodge on bass, Taylor McFerrin on synth and beatbox, and Justin Tyson on drums  - have released their debut album on Blue Note: the superb Collagically Speaking.

The album is a raw document that seamlessly blends genres; from neo-soul to future-funk, West Coast jazz of the moment to cosmic electronica, instrumental hip-hop to musique concrète, avant-garde to classical. These are single takes, written on the spot, that go wherever this formidable crew's mood goes.

Guest voices get caught in that mix as well: actors Omari Hardwick (Power) and Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Expendables); actress Amanda Seales (Insecure); MCs Stalley and yasiin bey (f.k.a. Mos Def); and singers Amber Navran (of Moonchild) and Goapele. The themes that bind it all together are both spoken and inferred: romantic love, universal love, systemic bigotry, the women's movement, quiet power, wild creativity, personal loss and growth.

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