Anything but indulgent, the much acclaimed American jazz and hip-hop prodigy, Jamael Dean, dreams big with a most ambitious new twenty-track album of tribune and social-political clout. Nothing less than raising the spirits of Black-America, Dean weaves together both a respectful acknowledgement of his Yoruba roots and a street view celestial hip-hop/jazz symphony tribute to L.A.’s Leimart Park – a predominantly Black neighbourhood that’s said to be on the ‘frontline of gentrification’.
Not so clear cut, nor divided, the Primordial Waters flow between jazz, soul, hip-hop and the classical; the vocals, a mix of diaphanous contoured, lush, lulled and more worked female voices and Dean’s own Freestyle Fellowship mixed with Tanya Morgan and Odd Future poetic, aggrieved observational and conscious raps.
| A1 | Èṣù |
| A2 | Odù Tó Dá Ìwà |
| A3 | Orí Apẹrẹ |
| B1 | Ifá |
| B2 | Akoda |
| C1 | Overstood |
| C2 | Ṣàngó |
| D1 | Ọranmiyan |
| D2 | Galaxy In Leimert |
| D3 | Ọṣun |
