Yesterday'S New Quintet Angles Without Edges LP Vinyl

Using jazz experimentation, education, and the unequivocal brilliance of his hip-hop creativity as a primary instrument, áMadlibáleads this record of paramount importance in the modern jazz and hip-hop worlds alike. Favoring swatches of lounge-heavy atmosphere and Fender Rhodes rivers to forever soulful infinity, big beats, and abstract soloing on everything from vibraphone to the turntable itself, Angles Without Edgesáis where music hoped to go by 2001. This is a hip-hop record made with jazz principles of improvisation, spacy cut-and-paste passages of drifting solos, and periods of vamping grooves that are layered handsomely with uncut breaks that build on top of themselves, eventually creating what may be theáBitches Brewáof the new millennium. Released on the progressive and reputable Stones Throw label, also home to their Uno Esta 12" and Bomb Shelter 7", áAnglesáis 19 tracks deep and doesn't stray in quality as the beats drum on. Highlights include the math jazzy "Julani, " the soul eclipse in "Papa, " and the outer space dub/samba in "Paladium."

1. Prelude 2. Julani 3. Papa 4. Keeper of My Soul 5. The One Who Knows 6. The Birth of Ynq 7. Paladium 8. Life's Angles 9. Thinking of You 10. Uno Esta 11. Rugged Tranquility 12. Daylight 13. Hot Water 14. Mestizo Eyes 15. Sun Goddess 16. Kuhn's Theme 17. Little Girl (Dakota's Song) 18. Broken Dreams 19. Last Day