Resavoir .Resavoir.

Released: 28th June 2019
Label: International Anthem Recording Company
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Genre: Jazz

Riding the ripples of their debut single “Escalator” (which BBC’s Gilles Peterson called “a winner,” and Supreme Standards’ Tina Edwards likened to “Radiohead on a Jazz trip”), Chicago collective Resavoir return with their first full length effort. The self-titled album presents a juicy suite of elegantly-orchestrated lo-fi jazz instrumentals germinated from home recording experiments by the group’s producer/arranger Will Miller.

Applying a compositional approach attributable to his experience producing hip-hop beats as much as his studies at Oberlin Conservatory, Miller built melodic sketches on foundations of samples & loops before bringing pieces to the group for collective development. After integrating recordings of the full band into his home-produced impressions (not unlike IARC predecessors Jeff Parker and Makaya McCraven), he over-dubbed another dozen friends into the mix (including Brandee Younger, Sen Morimoto, Carter Lang, Knox Fortune and Macie Stewart) before finalizing the arrangements.

In Miller’s modest editing room, Resavoir grew from experiment into epic opus recalling the lush, psychedelic soul jazz orchestrations of David Axelrod & Charles Stepney… but in the sampled-laden style of Yesterday’s New Quintet, Broadcast, or Thundercat, with a lyrical affinity for minimalism & texturalism, like trumpeter/composers Jon Hassell & Justin Walter.

Credits

Written, Arranged, and Produced by Will Miller.

featuring (in order of appearance):
Akenya Seymour – voice, piano, wurlitzer, sampler,
Will Miller – sampler, trumpets, synth, piano, wurlitzer, B3 organ
Macie Stewart – violins
Lane Beckstrom – bass
Colin Croom – synth
J.P. Floyd – trombone
Mira Magrill – flute, bamboo flutes
Peter Manheim – drums, percussion
Zoe Miller – violin
Irvin Pierce – tenor saxophone
Brian Sanborn – guitar
Brandee Younger – harp
Jeremy Cunningham – drums, electronic drums
Wills McKenna – flute
Luke Sangerman – electronic drums
Knox Fortune – drum programming
Sen Morimoto – voice, saxophone
Carter Lang – wurlitzer drum machine, additional production

Recorded (mostly) at the Armitage apartment (2018/19), the coach
house (2015), and Decade Music Studio (2019).

Tracks 1, 4, 5, 7, 9 mixed by Will Miller.
Tracks 2, 3, 6, 8 mixed by Dave Vettraino.
Mastered by David Allen.

Design and Layout by Crystal Zapata.

Tracklisting

A1: Intro 1:24

A2: Resavoir 5:46

A3: Taking Flight / Featuring – Brandee Younger 3:37

A4: Plantasy 4:20

B1: Clouds 1:11

B2: Woah 4:09

B3: Illusion 2:49

B4: Escalator / Featuring – Sen Morimoto 4:05

B5: LML 2:26