But who is Robert Glasper at all?
"Real music is crash protected - true music is indestructible," it says in the liner notes to "Black Radio", this future-oriented and at the same time very current musical statement of Robert Glasper Experiment, that formation of the highly talented pianist, composer and bandleader, the merger from jazz, hip-hop, R & B and rock helps to new heights. This opus, which is stylistically so skillfully between all chairs, shines as a top-class vocal artists and artists of diverse black music genres occupied and hypnotically seeming sound trip that definitely needs to be counted among the absolute highlights of the fledgling 2012.
The Featuring Acts are smack on his tongue. In this respect makes Black Radio "to its title, the broad field of urban music covers largely from - the best thing is that Glasper is friends with almost all guest musicians, whether singers like Erykah Badu, Lalah Hathaway, Meshell Ndegeocello, Ledisi or from Los Angeles coming vocal trio KING, whether rappers Lupe Fiasco and yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), or singers such as Bilal, Musiq Soulchild, Shafiq Husayn or Stokley Williams. An impressive line-up, I wanted to make an album that demonstrates that We work with artists from other genres, "says Glasper, although the vibe is more urban, hip hop and soul, but the backbone remains of Jazz".
This great result has also triggered a small commercial revolution. In the very first week after release in the United States "Black Radio" listed at # 15 on the US Billboard charts. A remarkable success for an album that has broken the conventions of jazz with a creative explosion of hip-hop, R & B and Soul!
I say: buy and enjoy! All comparisons with "Guru's Jazzmatazz" album are not exaggerated!
Hearing is believing! Yo!
