Jon Batiste-We Are-CD-FLAC-2021-FORSAKEN

                     FORSAKEN Proudly Presents              
    Artist      : Jon Batiste                                       
   Album       : We Are                                            
    Label       : Verve Records                                      
    Genre       : Jazz                                               
    Source      : CD                                                 
    Street Date : 2021-03-19                                         
   Quality     : 779 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels                   
    Encoder     : FLAC 1.3.1                                        
     Size        : 231.47 MB                                          
     Time        : 37:56 min                                          
    Url         : http://allmusic.com/album/release/we-are-mr000534 
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  1.  We Are (Feat. St. Augustine High School Marching 100)          4:24 
  2.  Tell The Truth                                                 3:21 
  3.  Cry                                                            3:57 
  4.  I Need You                                                     2:37 
  5.  Whatchutalkinbout                                              2:21 
  6.  Boy Hood (Feat. Pj Morton & Trombone Shorty)                   4:26 
  7.  Movement 11'                                                   2:01 
  8.  Adulthood (Feat. Hot 8 Brass Band)                             3:41 
  9.  Mavis                                                          0:20 
  10. Freedom                                                        2:58 
  11. Show Me The Way (Feat. Zadie Smith)                            3:40 
  12. Sing                                                           3:07 
  13. Until                                                          1:03 
     In May 2020, pianist and vocalist Jon Batiste released the song    
     "We Are" in support of the Black Lives Matter protests. A year     
     later, he expanded that song into the vibrantly cross-pollinated   
     full-length album We Are. While jazz is always at the core of      
     Batiste's work, on We Are he dips back into the genre-bending pop  
     and R&B-influenced sound of his Stay Human ensemble (whom he       
     famously performs with on CBS' The Late Show with Stephen          
     Colbert). He's assisted by a bevy of production collaborators,     
     including Jahaan Sweet, POMO, and Ricky Reed. We also get          
     appearances by Mavis Staples and Quincy Jones, as well as          
     Batiste's father, Michael Batiste, and grandfather David           
     Gauthier, all of whom add layers of authenticity and biographical  
     texture to the album. While universal in tone, We Are is           
     beautifully inspired by Batiste's life growing up in New Orleans.  
     The record opens with the title track, a passionate,               
     gospel-accented anthem featuring the St. Augustine Marching Band   
     from his high school. We also get "Boyhood," a funky ode to the    
     Big Easy that finds Batiste and fellow New Orleans natives PJ      
     Morton and Trombone Shorty celebrating how the families, food,     
     and culture of their hometown shaped their lives. Batiste sings,   
     "I said I'm far from home but I always represent/I thought I had   
     so much time, I don't know where it went/But now that I'm grown I  
     know what it all meant/No place like New Orleans." Using the best  
     of the past to build toward a better tomorrow is a stirring        
     notion that pervades the album, both musically and thematically.   
     He draws upon the vigorous grooves of New Orleans funk pioneers    
     the Meters with "Tell the Truth" and crafts a buoyant,             
     psychedelic-soul vibe with the help of author Zadie Smith on       
     "Show Me the Way." One of the most vivid encapsulations of his     
     old-meets-new sound on We Are is "I Need You," an electric         
     amalgam of boogie-woogie blues and vintage hip-hop attitude --     
     like an impossible combination of Little Richard and OutKast.      
     Batiste's genre-mashing reinforces the album's theme of            
     intergenerational wisdom, and it's also wonderfully fun.           

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17M	08-jon_batiste-adulthood_(feat._hot_8_brass_band).flac
1.2M	09-jon_batiste-mavis.flac
21M	10-jon_batiste-freedom.flac
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