Robert Glasper - Black Radio III - 2x LP Vinyl

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SKU:
c0026390
UPC:
888072400313

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Artist:
Robert Glasper
Album:
Black Radio III
Format:
12" Vinyl
UPC:
888072400313

Description

The third instalment in jazz pianist Robert Glasper’s Black Radio series of crossover albums opens with a track about African-American tribulations that revolves on a pointed contrast between sight and hearing.

“In Tune” features the poet Amir Sulaiman reciting verses about racism over a sombre, Radiohead-influenced piano melody. Race hatred is figured in visual terms, as the act of oppressors who “unless they need you, they act as if they don’t see you”, and as a “disease that sees us as less than . . . human”. Resistance comes in the form of sound. “So we don’t play music, we pray music,” Sulaiman declares. As his voice gets louder, the musical accompaniment swells with crashing cymbal-work and a climbing trumpet solo. “I come from a people transmuted, transformed by song,” he cries. The radio of the album’s title is an instrument of liberation.

This insistence on freedom is characteristic of Glasper’s work. The Houston-raised, Los Angeles-based pianist describes himself a “musical mutt” whose work is centred on jazz but also draws on R&B, soul, rock and hip-hop. Now 43, he has mainly recorded as bandleader of two groups, the Robert Glasper Trio, an acoustic trio, and the Robert Glasper Experiment, an anything-goes electric quartet. He cites Herbie Hancock as an inspiration, a stylistic adventurer who gained mastery as a pure jazz keyboardist before crossing into other genres.
A1In Tune
A2Black Superhero
A3Shine
B1Why We Speak
B2Over
B3Better Than I Imagined
C1Everybody Wants To Rule The World
C2Everybody Love
C3It Don't Matter
D1Heaven's Here
D2Out Of My Hands
D3Forever
D4Bright Lights