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Commencing with a takeoff scene that recalls that of Charles Earland's Leaving This Planet, Chris Dave's proper debut as a leader aspires to transport the listener. Likewise, a sense of escape was something the drummer, composer, and producer wanted to establish in L.A.'s Kingsize Soundlabs where, for a few weeks in 2015, he hosted and directed the 50-strong crew of instrumentalists and vocalists who comprise the Drumhedz. Taking into account the considerable overlapping personnel and an otherwise aesthetically similar variety of involved jazz, R&B, and hip-hop figures, Dave's debut prompts easy comparisons to contributor Robert Glasper's Black Radio sessions. Nonetheless, this is less an instance of "I got next" than the culmination of a three-decade career that has intersected with the players here (as well as gospel and pop artists ranging from Yolanda Adams and Justin Bieber). The core instrumental support for Dave is bassist Pino Palladino and guitarist Isaiah Sharkey. Keyboardist Cleo Sample and singer/songwriter Kendra Foster are among the variable cast that joins that trio, so the set unsurprisingly has the densely layered, spaced-out, and fiery qualities of D'Angelo's Black Messiah. Dave truly shows off only on the lone unoriginal cut, a robust version of Alan Pasqua's "Lady Jade" (misspelled "Lady Jane"), originally recorded by the New Tony Williams Lifetime. There are a couple off-the-cuff interludes, along with a polyrhythmic delight ("Dat Feelin'") with room to showcase Keyon Harrold's trumpet and piano and Marcus Strickland's bass clarinet and tenor sax. Those tracks excepted, the album is ultimately about songs, even when Dave's dubbed-out snares are ricocheting off the walls and the electronics are on the brink of haywire status. There are three stellar ballads: the aching Anna Wise and SiR duet "Job Well Done," Foster's psychedelic "Sensitive Granite," and Bilal and Tweet's steaming "Spread Her Wings." Additionally, there's the panoramic neo-Afrobeat jam "Black Hole," fronted by a typically ebullient Anderson Paak. In the steady rocking "Destiny N Stereo," Phonte, Elzhi, and Eric Roberson operate like a unified trio. The breezy "Atlanta, Texas," a conversation that includes Goapele, Rozzi Daime, and Shafiq Husayn, sounds like a trapdoor discovery from the latter's Dave-enhanced Shafiq En' A-Free-Ka. The ease with which the album can be enjoyed is all the more astonishing considering that it effectively applies and corrals input from so many of Dave's associates.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
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Pino Palladino, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Dave, Producer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Savvy, Spoken Word, AssociatedPerformer - Ben Kane, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Isaiah Sharkey, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Cleo Sample, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chris Dave And The Drumhedz, MainArtist
℗ 2018 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Shafiq Husayn, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sy Smith, Additional Vocals, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Robert Glasper, Keyboards, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chris Dave, Producer, Drums, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Rozzi Daime, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ben Kane, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sir Darryl Farris, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Donald Rose, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Marshall York, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Isaiah Sharkey, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Cleo Sample, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Dave And The Drumhedz, MainArtist - KRNDN, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - RC Williams, Moog Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Leolin Dockins III, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Drumhedz, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Pino Palladino, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - James Poyser, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Sir, FeaturedArtist - Chris Dave, Producer, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Marcus Strickland, Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Keyon Harrold, Piano, Trumpet, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tiffany Gouche, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Marcus Hodge, Organ, AssociatedPerformer - Ben Kane, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sir Darryl Farris, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Isaiah Sharkey, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Dave And The Drumhedz, MainArtist
℗ 2017 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Pino Palladino, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chris Dave, Producer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Stokley Williams, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Keyon Harrold, Horn, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Melvin Watson, Guitar, Sitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ben Kane, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brandon Anderson, ComposerLyricist - Anderson .Paak, FeaturedArtist - Isaiah Sharkey, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Dave And The Drumhedz, MainArtist - Nick McNack, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Andre Harris, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Pino Palladino, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chris Dave, Producer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ben Kane, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Isaiah Sharkey, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chris Dave And The Drumhedz, MainArtist
℗ 2018 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Charmelle Cofield, Additional Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Bilal Oliver, ComposerLyricist - Charlene Keys, ComposerLyricist - Tweet, FeaturedArtist - Bilal, FeaturedArtist - Pino Palladino, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - James Poyser, Keyboards, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chris Dave, Producer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ben Kane, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sir Darryl Farris, Vocals, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Isaiah Sharkey, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Dave And The Drumhedz, MainArtist
℗ 2018 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Shafiq Husayn, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Pino Palladino, Bass Guitar, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Dave, Producer, Drums, Percussion, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tim Stewart, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Rozzi Daime, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ben Kane, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marshall York, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Isaiah Sharkey, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Dave And The Drumhedz, MainArtist - Drumhedz, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Kent Morrison, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Pino Palladino, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Aaron Draper, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Dave, Producer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sharief Hobley, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Kendra Foster, FeaturedArtist, ComposerLyricist - Ben Kane, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Isaiah Sharkey, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Dave And The Drumhedz, MainArtist
℗ 2018 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chris Dave, Producer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Stokley Williams, FeaturedArtist, ComposerLyricist - Casey Benjamin, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Luke Austin, Organ, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Ben Kane, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Isaiah Sharkey, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Dave And The Drumhedz, MainArtist - Nicholas McNack, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Miguel Ferguson, Strings, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Goapele, FeaturedArtist - Goapele Mohlabane, ComposerLyricist - Shafiq Husayn, Vocalist, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Pino Palladino, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Dave, Producer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Kebbi Williams, Flute, Saxophones, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Gregoire Maret, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Tim Stewart, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Tiffany Gouche, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Rozzi Daime, Spoken Word, AssociatedPerformer - Marcus Hodge, Organ, AssociatedPerformer - Ben Kane, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sir Darryl Farris, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Isaiah Sharkey, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Dave And The Drumhedz, MainArtist
℗ 2018 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Pino Palladino, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Aaron Draper, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Dave, Producer, Drums, Flute, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - DJ Jazzy Jeff, D J, AssociatedPerformer - ERIC ROBERSON, FeaturedArtist, ComposerLyricist - Elzhi, FeaturedArtist - Phonte Coleman, FeaturedArtist, ComposerLyricist - Keyon Harrold, Horn, AssociatedPerformer - Preservation, D J, AssociatedPerformer - Jason Powers, ComposerLyricist - Ben Kane, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Cleo Sample, Moog Bass, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chris Dave And The Drumhedz, MainArtist - Glenn Piper, Sound Effects, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2017 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Fin Greenall, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Pino Palladino, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sir, FeaturedArtist - Chris Dave, Producer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Michael Feingold, Bells, Celesta, Wine Glasses, AssociatedPerformer - Ben Kane, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brandon Anderson, ComposerLyricist - Anderson .Paak, FeaturedArtist - Sir Darryl Farris, ComposerLyricist - Isaiah Sharkey, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jermaine Holmes, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Cleo Sample, Organ, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Dave And The Drumhedz, MainArtist - Nicholas McNack, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Pino Palladino, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Sir, FeaturedArtist - Chris Dave, Producer, Drums, Percussion, Sound Effects, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Michael Feingold, Sitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Anna Wise, FeaturedArtist, ComposerLyricist - Ben Kane, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sir Darryl Farris, ComposerLyricist - Isaiah Sharkey, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Dave And The Drumhedz, MainArtist - Nicholas McNack, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Pino Palladino, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Dave, Producer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Alan James Pasqua, ComposerLyricist - Ben Kane, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Isaiah Sharkey, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Cleo Sample, Keyboards, Organ, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Dave And The Drumhedz, MainArtist
℗ 2018 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Pino Palladino, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - James Poyser, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Dave, Producer, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Marcus Strickland, Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Keyon Harrold, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Ben Kane, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Isaiah Sharkey, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chris Dave And The Drumhedz, MainArtist
℗ 2018 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Commencing with a takeoff scene that recalls that of Charles Earland's Leaving This Planet, Chris Dave's proper debut as a leader aspires to transport the listener. Likewise, a sense of escape was something the drummer, composer, and producer wanted to establish in L.A.'s Kingsize Soundlabs where, for a few weeks in 2015, he hosted and directed the 50-strong crew of instrumentalists and vocalists who comprise the Drumhedz. Taking into account the considerable overlapping personnel and an otherwise aesthetically similar variety of involved jazz, R&B, and hip-hop figures, Dave's debut prompts easy comparisons to contributor Robert Glasper's Black Radio sessions. Nonetheless, this is less an instance of "I got next" than the culmination of a three-decade career that has intersected with the players here (as well as gospel and pop artists ranging from Yolanda Adams and Justin Bieber). The core instrumental support for Dave is bassist Pino Palladino and guitarist Isaiah Sharkey. Keyboardist Cleo Sample and singer/songwriter Kendra Foster are among the variable cast that joins that trio, so the set unsurprisingly has the densely layered, spaced-out, and fiery qualities of D'Angelo's Black Messiah. Dave truly shows off only on the lone unoriginal cut, a robust version of Alan Pasqua's "Lady Jade" (misspelled "Lady Jane"), originally recorded by the New Tony Williams Lifetime. There are a couple off-the-cuff interludes, along with a polyrhythmic delight ("Dat Feelin'") with room to showcase Keyon Harrold's trumpet and piano and Marcus Strickland's bass clarinet and tenor sax. Those tracks excepted, the album is ultimately about songs, even when Dave's dubbed-out snares are ricocheting off the walls and the electronics are on the brink of haywire status. There are three stellar ballads: the aching Anna Wise and SiR duet "Job Well Done," Foster's psychedelic "Sensitive Granite," and Bilal and Tweet's steaming "Spread Her Wings." Additionally, there's the panoramic neo-Afrobeat jam "Black Hole," fronted by a typically ebullient Anderson Paak. In the steady rocking "Destiny N Stereo," Phonte, Elzhi, and Eric Roberson operate like a unified trio. The breezy "Atlanta, Texas," a conversation that includes Goapele, Rozzi Daime, and Shafiq Husayn, sounds like a trapdoor discovery from the latter's Dave-enhanced Shafiq En' A-Free-Ka. The ease with which the album can be enjoyed is all the more astonishing considering that it effectively applies and corrals input from so many of Dave's associates.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 00:58:55
- Main artists: Chris Dave And The Drumhedz
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Blue Note Records
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B R&B
© 2017 UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2018 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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