1 12 Little Spells (thoracic spine) 4:53
2 To Tide Us Over (mouth) 4:53
3 'Til the Next Full (eyes) 4:17
4 Thang (hips) 4:35
5 Touch in Mine (fingers) 4:53
6 The Longing Deep Down (abdominal portal) [Explicit] 4:35
7 You Have to Dance (feet) 3:27
8 Now Know (solar portal) 4:26
9 All Limbs Are (arms) 3:36
10 Readying to Rise (legs) 5:07
11 Dancing The Animal (mind) 5:07
12 With Others (ears) 5:52
13 Lest We Forget (blood) 5:16
14 How To (hair) 3:54
15 Move Many (joints) 2:55
16 Ways Together (shoulders) 3:45
Esperanza Spalding’s enthusiasm for bundling her releases with attention-grabbing concepts — like writing and recording an entire album in an uninterrupted 77-hour livestream, or dedicating each song on her new LP, "12 Little Spells", to a different body part — might make it seem like she’s attempting to mask some shortcoming in the actual music. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. The Grammy-winning bassist/vocalist/composer, a former child prodigy steeped in classical and jazz but bounded by neither, is well over a decade into one of the most fruitful and strikingly original careers in contemporary pop.- Rolling Stone Magazine
PERSONNEL:
ESPERANZA SPALDING, vocals, piano, bass
MATTHEW STEVENS, guitar
JUSTIN TAYSON, drumas, organ, vocal
AARON BURNETT, sax
ERIC REED, french horn
BRANDON RIDENOUR, JONH BLEVINS, trumpet
RICHARD HARRIS, tenor sax |
