Terrace Martin - Velvet Portraits (Discussion Thread)

[Marco]

1. Velvet Portraits
2. Valdez off Crenshaw
3. Push
4. With You
5. Curly Martin
6. Never Enough
7. Turkey Taco
8. Patiently Waiting (feat. Uncle Chuck & The Emotions)
9. Tribe Called West
10. Oakland
11. Bromali
12. Think of You
13. Reverse
14. Mortal Man

Editors’ Notes

Good luck pigeonholing Terrace Martin; on Velvet Portraits, the L.A. producer/saxophonist (who entered the limelight working with Kendrick Lamar) creates a wildly creative collision of jazz, soul, funk, and hip-hop that’s loaded with guests and restless creativity. Case in point? Take “Valdez off Crenshaw”—a wah-wah-infused, organ-driven instrumental based on a Donny Hathaway tune. Martin dresses it up with whistling synth leads and Zappa-esque guitars. Want to go further out? Take “Turkey Taco,” a showpiece of Outkast-inspired freakiness with a rubbery synth-bass, purring backup singers, and an off-kilter acoustic piano. When it’s time to come back, try “Patiently Waiting,” a soulful, sweat-soaked blues throwback featuring a gloriously gutsy vocal from Uncle Chucc or the simmering R&B of “Think of You." Weird, wonderful, and impossible to pin down, this is future-soul music from a musician who elegantly connects the music of Stax to the streets of Compton and beyond.

[doggfather]

dl right now!

[Funkstradamus]

Quincy Jones Jr....this album is a flawless from start to finish...

[bouli77]

not feeling it after one listen

[doggfather]

wow, this album is amazin!

jazz in hip hop, or hip hop in jazz without rap.

must buy, must hear!