Dragon Age LP hidden track titled "D'read Koda", composed by Hans Zimmer & Lorne Balfe. Potentially a Dragon Age: Dreadwolf soundtrack (source)

Shirley what are your thoughts on the new music and what is your fav new track

absolutely emotionally ravaged!!!! no coherency just screaming!!!!!!!

i cannot explain to you how important it is to me that bts released an anthology album like the legends that they are AND they released their demos like showing us their heart and all their thoughts ✨✨

disclaimer: i know nothing and i have not emotionally physically spiritually metaphysically recovered from this album ✨

born singer - fuck the significance this song has to armys and bts and j cole allowing them to release this song fuck. FCUK. namgi's verses still make me cry. this really is the thesis. the central theme for the tannie's careers and their message. i lokey wish they recorded yoongi's verse to reflect the amount of years that has passed but opening the anthology w this song is so smart of them.....creative team fantastic work.

yet to come - 'best is what comes next you and i the best moment is yet to come' 'we are all about it....dreams hopes and moving forward' ....as someone who struggled into adulthood w hyyh, dream hope forward forward was the mantra that kept me going somedays and i absolutely burst into tears in public hearing it. fuck the message is so good the references are so good the mv is so good the hope the vision SO GOOD..........if born singer is the thesis statement to start their collection of title songs, then yet to come is the conclusion to their thesis paper of where they are heading towards in the future. im so incredibly thankful for bts and their impact in my life

run bts- ROCK BTS I CANT BELIEVE WE DID IT BESTIES WE MANIFESTED IT no notes 110/10 song would loop jin's rock vocals until my last breath thanks for coming to my ted talk

jump demo - wow it sounds both incredibly similar and also completely different i was so shocked when i first heard it!!! im glad they made that violin arpeggio clearer but i havent had a chance to look up the lyrics and what they changed

young love - the piano hook is so pretty and the bar chimes and the bg vocals are so atmospheric. while this song is lovely (hehehe) and it absolutely has that classic bts genre twist i think its getting lost in all of the greats in this album. which really speaks more to how bts stuffed this album w the creme de la creme top state of the art quality music than this song in particular tbh.

boy w luv demo - #bring back jin's husky chest voice 2022 tbh lmfao i see why they didn't add yoongis voice from the chorus chant intro his voice is too distinctive. fine min yoongi. you win. i concede my years long offense was unfounded. i wish they didnt take away some of the extra bg sound effects and the back n forth in the bridge 😔 bby jk sounds so smol w his safe standard riff i want to put him in my pocket for safe keeping 🥺🥺🥺 hobi's hakuna matata verse remains iconique™️

quotation mark - easily one of my fave instrumentals its so well mixed a GIANT kiss for the soundmixer wow the balance bt the melody and the counter and bass and the synth/brass and the lil ornamentations mmMMM. rapline bringing back that school trilogy style back thank you kings. will be hunting down an instrumental to vibe to w telepathy.

inu demo - ive been wanting this for YEARS you hear me????? verse 2 has a better backing than the og and the prechorus is SO nice. i still cant stop laughing at joon's puberty voice in these early demos (this will be a reoccurring theme but is esp funny on joons high notes what did joon do to modulate in program his voice up oh my god)

boyz w fun - TAEEEEEE AHHAHHHAHAHA i love him!!!!! the beat on the chorus is a little lopsided i see why they decided to change the chant. this has always been one of my ULT FAVES so hearing the drafts before is a treat!!!! i wish they kept that electric guitar and joon's eenie meanie minie moo riff and how clear and distinct jin's voice is in the tutti and post-chorus parts

tony montana ft jimin - IVE BEEN WAITING FOR FOR YEARS FOR THIS its such a sexy song im so happy to replace the concert audio version ive been listening to for this that build up to the last chorus is HYPE AS FUCK. i never realized how sick that drum and bass is fuck i cant wait to see it in the concert setlist again. i wish they amp'd up jimin's vers bc this sounds like a concert backing track??? like they expect jimin to sing on top of it????? sthing is missing idk what it is but it feels sandwiched in. also. i also know its a style in rap music to have processed vocals but jimin doesnt need it you know? you compressed his vibrato and timbre too much. but also conversely too much reverb?????? confusing.

young forever rm demo - i wasnt expecting how much this demo would ruin me. i cried immediately the first time i heard it. this is joon's first bby and you can tell from his distinct style of that atmospheric synth thing and hard rap paired w piano. i want to transcribe the piano line SO badly you dont understand

spring day v demo - ANOTHER SONG IVE BEEN WAITING FOR FOR YEARS you can hear tae's melancholic/nostalgic/melody-driven style here clearly god i love his version so much the outro on the chorus w the humming and harder.....vuvuzela??? works surprisingly well. kth1 when?

dna hobi demo - another demo that took me by surprise how much i love it. in fact i love this so much more than the og even tho i know it sounds more jhope than bts. i want him to play this at the music fest. please. IM BEGGING. god its so good. how does hobi keep putting out so much good music i dont get it.

epiphany jin demo - im sure all of you are aware how hard and how long ive wanted this in my hands and jin just never disappoints. idk man jin knows his voice and his strengths very well and i see why this was in the running until the last minute revision. fuck its so good. im sad the leak was real bc i can't experience for the first time again but at the same time hearing the prechorus in context is so magical. his voice is what 1000 thread silk bedsheets feel like to someone who has slept in a pile of hay all their lives feel like.

seesaw flower demo - i love this instrumental i love min yoongi i love his big sexy brain i wish he kept this bassline and the rain and cricket and pipa sounds and the drumline but i do understand that its a little too strong for the vibes and the piano. the bridge is so nice i want a 129048935 hour loop of it thank you. min yoongi will you ever love me enough to give me autumn leaves demo??

still w you acapella - talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before- i love how they just took the file and deleted all of the instrumental lmfao. couldnt they have filled in the empty spaces i thought i broke my laptop 🤣🤣 anyways the harmonies are so sexy mozart has been real silent since this dropped!!!! choral 5 part harmonies could NEVER

for youth - they really ended this album w this absolute GEM!!! they really pulled a whole sea w this huh. the instrumentals the vocals the lyrics the mixing the composition the piano and the strings and the bass line starting the song w army singing young forever in wembly FUCK anyways im emotionally fragile this love song to their armys huh!!! 'youre my best friend for the rest of my life' huh!!!!!! where do i fucking sue for emotional damages huh!!!!!!! jin's syncopated verse is where i live now.

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i love that you can really hear how far into development these songs were before putting them into this album. some, re: heungtan sonyeondan and inu, were put together earlier in development and thus are more rough sketches and minimal 'meat', only there to provide the general idea of what they want. sthing to show bang pd or sthing to wake up the next morning to polish. esp when you compare them to epiphany and spring day, practically full songs w professional sounding instrumentals already. while they are much more polished, you can hear all of the thought sope put into seesaw and dna even you can hear some are clearly midi w their standard settings before recorded w better software/more tinkering or a live band. i think it also speaks to the type of writers they are. joon seems like the type to want things down asap before he goes back to fix things, while yoongi is the type to tinker w sthing making sure its basically perfect before showing it off to the world, and hobi has the minutiae detail work to add things while he goes.

i love this album w all my heart and i love the tannies for showing us their souls their hearts their talents w us 💖

what kind of music do you listen to?

The genres I generally listen to are "dubstep," "rap, in the early 2010s" and "chillwave." These aren't really a unified genre; rather, they are clusters of styles with some shared characteristics, like sampling and a lot of repetition. Some common elements of my favorite music are below the cut.

Repetitive drum patterns and samples

Loud, distorted/fuzzy bass lines

Distinctive, aggressive vocal delivery, including shouting, growling, shouting in non-English languages and "talking like an engine," etc.

Heavy use of synthesisers (i.e. synths, samplers, etc.) that seem to be creating sounds that weren't there before (sometimes this is to create "an atmosphere," sometimes just to sound cool and other times to sound like something no one's done before)

Strong rhythmic elements, esp. with the bass line, and strong, complex melodic lines

#18, 21, 25, 30, 34, 46

ooh, this one took a hot minute! thank you sm oh my goodness!!

18. What’s your favorite track in the OST?

okay listen i had a whole thing on like, my observations on the composers and how the choices in synths and percussion and padding in some maps are so reminiscent of the actual factions themselves and how much i ADORE keith power and jason graves especially and,, i,, it just. like i'll write an mla format essay on that sometime but that day is NOT today. so! i'll just say that i really adore a lot of em and it's a tie between:

- Smiles from Juran

- Sleeping in the Cold Below (esp that,, launcher omg i listen to the looped version all the time while i work its just,,, so atmospheric)

- the Deadlock Protocol ambiance tracks

warframe team has such good musical minds behind it you don't understand. and the foley teams !!!! they're all So so good

21. What was your first Prime build?

i mean, my first prime was hydroid - i got him during tennocon 2020 (pandemic starter status tm), but the first one that i built myself was mesa prime! they're both pretty great and i look on them fondly <3

25. Which planet is your favorite to run missions on?

maybe jupiter! that might be simply bc jupiter is my favorite planet in general but there's something about how story-rich it is. i love the amalgam subplot that starts kicking in on jupiter, and now that i can do it, taking a little jaunt over there to solo the rolapolyst a couple times in a row is pretty nice!

30. Do you play public or solo?

okay i used to exclusively run solo and thats why my mastery rank is so stunted. nowadays i do public either for eidolon runs or relic missions, and that's been pretty rewarding too! (miss getting to pause though lol). remember, y'all, if u ever end up in the same lobby with an excalibur named ardenigh, stick around for a few rounds or show me your builds/fashionframe and i'll send you a gift <3

34. What’s a line of dialogue that stuck with you?

only like 59% of them i have an endless love for so many of the quest dialogue (de steve my revered). midnight-revelation added a whole slew of banger lines i forgot abt on my "warframe dialogue is good" post and they're so satisfying?? i think that if i take into account the words themselves And the way they were delivered by the actors i can narrow it down to:

- "I cannot guess how many lives a Tenno has, but you seem eager to lose another!" (Hunhow)

- "I was going to wait for you forever." (Ordis)

- "I am a bright star surrounded by an accretion disk of cretins and ding-dongs." (Hok)

- "And it was not their force of will, not their void devilry, not their alien darkness - it was something else..." (Ballas)

36. Who is your comfort Warframe?

show me any excalibur, standard, prime, umbra, all of them, and you will immediately sense the waves of serotonin being released on sight. excalibur as a frame is friendly and strong and takes you where you need to go and i am already on one knee as i speak i love him very much

my friends started with volt, too, so to a lesser extent its nice to see that guy running around!

9 & 21 & 23 & 24

Under cut because it got a little long

9: How do you make your playlists

By genre and what kind of feelings I get from them ! I have individual playlists for metal , math rock , rap , and every kind of electro (not respectively , if it has synths it's going in one playlist) , and everything else is just stuff like These songs make me happy these ones remind me of myself this is a character playlist these are for friends . So on . And also I have a few playlists that are just albums but . Reordered .

21: "No one should be judged for their taste in music" do you agree with this statement

.... No . I wish I could say I do but today my english teacher said she loves Taylor Swift and Harry Styles and I winced a little bit . Like if you enjoy say , shit like weezer or Radiohead or Eminem or anything else in that virgin music category and say stuff like "(c)rap" I'm making fun of and judging you ! (Read: if you are a user of r/music I think you should die .) But also I feel these are general music "red flags" (....) most people agree with so like , otherwise if you enjoy music I don't enjoy sure carry on keep listening to 100 gecs

Already did 23 , but also I'd like to add I hate Eminem . I enjoyed some of his earlier stuff but looking back some is just not as good as I remember and also why did he mention Dr. Dre in literally every song ? Bro had a crush on him

24: what artist do you think influenced your style the most

"Style" is used . Vaguely here so I assume this refers to general fashion and taste/style of (making) music . Fashion wise probably Tyler The Creator (OF COURSE I SAY THIS ..) , Beastie Boys (sorry) , Perfume (once I bought a skirt because it was the same one as the one Yuka was wearing in Natural ni Koishite MV which I think speaks for itself .) .

As for general taste in music (and for me I guess the stuff I make ?) then . BabymetaI (of course) , Playboi Carti , Kendrick Lamar , capsule (all of Nakata's works LOL) , Daft Punk , Lil B Based God .. Also I tend to listen to Aya Uchida's Ephemera , BabymetaI , Perfume's LEVEL3 , capsule's FRUiTS CLiPPER , and Kendrick's works in general when I draw for ~~atmosphere~~

I feel I could also list Carti for fashion because OF COURSE but I feel he ends up reflecting more in what I like in art ... Esp stuff he wore during Die Lit era . I do of course enjoy his looks from WLR era (now I guess ? Unless Narcissist drops which we know that's not happening anytime soon ...)

i was tagged by my queen @wlwshinees (on her main) im unsure of the instructions but im assuming i gotta shuffle 10 of my songs n say a lil something abt them !!

lay your head on me by crush

i sing this to my dog a lot bc when it came out is around the time my dog finally started to trust me and get closer to me. it’s a lil sad but sweet like me hehe

el amor coloca by monica naranjo

agdgdddhjsjs a banger !! my mom used to listen to this song a lot when i was little i think it made me gay ngl

y si fuera ella by alejandro sanz

i grew up listening to this song a lot bc of my mom so when i found out about jonghyun's version it was a big reason why he became my bias/ult 💖 both versions are different in powerful in their own way. i love both

entre dos tierras by los heroes del silencio

another song my mom got me into she's a big influence on me music taste wise I was super into rock en español when i was younger. i like this guys voice a lot it has an interesting...vibrato

i'm like a bird by nelly furtado

my brother used to LOVE her back in the day so naturally i did too. this song makes me feel like going outside to run outside in the grassy fields. miss this queen

forever yours by key

KEY!!! this was his first legit solo release i remember how excited i was and how much i listened to it in anticipation of his full album 🥺💖 i miss king kibum

the cabinette by das kabinette

really love dark wave/synth/atmospheric music especially with this type of voice ?? idk i used to be super goth agdhhddj

jesus lived in a motel room by hyukoh

one of my fav hyukoh songs !! starts out kinda blues-y and changes more upbeat for the chorus. im literally in love oh hyuk's voice it can change from so soft and quiet to loud and powerful im in love w him period ahdhdh

overthinking by offonoff

bro this song got me into colde i love his voice so much. I listen to this album/song a lot at night esp when i cant sleep i really do be overthinking sometimes lmao

angel by iz

oh my god it was love at first listen the bass immediately at the beginning i was like ohhhh. literally everything about this song is amazing this album is amazing this band is amazing stan iz !!

idk who to tag but if u opened this and read it i tag u hehe :3c

Some taz music things I really appreciate

I’m on my taz relisten, so can we just appreciate the thought that Griffin puts into his music, esp in terms of the themes and motifs used???

In ‘clock strikes noon’, the clock in the background strikes exactly 12 times 

‘Reunion tour’ and ‘story and song’ sort of mirror each other in structure, but ‘story and song’ is the more uplifting one bc, duh, the reunion of the seven birds! 

The disrobed theme is used at the magnus, Barry and lup reveal. Essentially the red robes theme 

In ‘the starblaster’, while it’s mostly similar to ‘assault on the moonbase’ (final battle theme), there is a similar motif that was used in the disrobed theme as well, bc they’re doing battle, but this time the IPRE are all together!! 

Also, the disrobed theme is a variation of ‘the chalice’, because both are centred around remembering lost memories/past tragedies, and how these past tragedies can be overcome with love and unity

How the music fits the atmosphere of each arc. 

Crystal kingdom: More synths, electronic music for the sci fi elements 

Eleventh hour: Acoustic. Banjos, guitars, piano, for the more rustic environment

Suffering game: Electronic, pounding bass, sinister party vibes!

The taz theme (deja vu) cropping up in the key songs, that mark huge revelations, or turning points in the plot- ‘story and song’, ‘parley’, ‘big prophecy’, ‘final form’

‘No dogs on the moon’, and ‘no dogs on the beach’, using to accompany the sort of sillier, more lighthearted moments where the characters just chill together, then finally being used in ‘bonds’, bc it was through these silly moments when the bonds that saved them were formed!

Early DJ Support From: Andrew Weatherall, Jonny Rock, Charles Webster, DJ Three, Dave Harvey, Solar, Severino, Lovefingers, Mystic Bill, Eduardo De La Calle, Jacques Renault and more.

Los Angeles imprint Machine Limited reveals its first VA EP to open 2019, featuring material from the likes of SONNS, Dave Aju, Tiago, Split Secs and more.

As two of Los Angeles’ most notable talents, SONNS, aka Alexandre Mourcade, and TK, aka Travis Kirschbaum, have become central to the cities ever-expanding electronic music scene over recent years, with their Split Secs guise finding favour amongst a host of names ranging from DJ Hell to John Talabot. Founded in 2013 as a creative outlet for both SONNS and Split Secs material, their Machine Limited imprint has since gone on to release material from the likes of Tuff City Kids and Kasper Bjorke whilst picking up notable support from artists including Andrew Weatherall, DJ Harvey and Daniel Avery in the process. Following on from their latest release from THE KDMS, the label now kicks off 2019 with their first various artists offering made up of material from LA’s best known and rising talents.

The expansive seven track package is opened through Live For Each Moon’s ‘Pressure Dub’ as off kilter 303 lines float amongst crunchy percussion shots, before the combination of TK and Tavish (ESP Institute) together as Warehouse Preservation Society reveals a hypnotic cut in ‘Multitude Of Sin’. SONNS’ ‘Easy Love’ employs an effortless balance of serene melodies and hazy atmospherics to switch up the aesthetic, whilst J Disco and Chris Coloma aka Silk Road Fantasy utilises resonant synths and slick drum licks throughout ‘Zombies’.

Next, Tiago’s remix of Second Language ‘Nothing So Far’ pairs resounding kicks, eerie vocals and bright lead lines to great effect, SONNS and Dave Aju’s ‘Fluid’ works groove-heavy percussion patterns and bumping low ends, before label founders Split Secs close proceedings via the infectious ‘Off The Ground’, rounding out an impressive debut VA offering from the West Coast imprint.

so to summarize my opinions on are u there:

intro: i like it better than i thought i would? cuz like the preview sounded rly generic but it was cooler than i thought

underwater: also liked underwater a lot more than i thought i would!! the overall mood is rly floaty and nice and the dramatic drop was rly unexpected and cool and that’s my shit right there; they also vary the drop from chorus to chorus which keeps it interesting and is super tight

shoot out: legendary bop!! i rly like the vocal harmonies and the vibe and this is v specific but i like how the bass is slightly sharp for the rap verses? like it’s not exactly tonic i think it’s like less than a semitone up but it creates some dissonance and it sounds cool

and idk it’s v classically monsta x yfeel? the major-minor fuckery, the strong bass, the brass samples are all things monsta x use a lot in their title tracks incl this one but it’s also a rly strong song on its own and i just think it’s neat.png

side note: it’s rly hard to keep a consistent... vibe? colour? like this while making every song new and unique but monsta x somehow does it!! kings

heart attack: eh? like i love the rap verses a lot esp jooheon’s like BOOM fdjkjf BOOMBOOM but there’s something off abt the first prechorus/chorus like... the vocals and backing track are a little out of sync in a way tht feels unintentional? also the chorus line thing like the “oh u give me a heart attack” gets a little old after a bit

neol hada: cute.... i can’t not associate it w their sailor outfits tbh, and it’s just a rly cute song; also tbh i like the ot7 version better than the unit version? it got a bit repetitive w just 3 ppl singing but 7 ppl just fill up the song a lot better

mohae: again eh? like i love the song bc i love ck and considering it’s his first song it’s super good!! also the drop to ck’s verse? legendary; but also i find the chorus a bit repetitive esp with the super heavy drop in the 2nd repeat... also the bridge, kinda like w heart attack, there was this out of sync bit tht felt unintentional

oh my: a hecking bop holy shit like mj voice i love this song... like it doesn’t do anything fancy but it just slaps yfeel; i rly like the 느낌 때로 소리 질러 chromatic part and it keeps up the hype pretty well throughout and changes just enough to not be repetitive and im in love ma

myself: i love the mood of this song hoyl shit... iconic vocals and the instrumentation makes such a sick vibe like.. hyungwon’s voice? ck’s voice?? wonho’s slidey part in the chorus and minhyuk’s slidey part in the prechorus??? yoo kihyun???? jooheon’s rap in the bridge?? shownu... shownu im sorry but u were kinda invisible fdlksj but also his line at the end of the chorus is 👌

by my side: a rly nice track!! a little repetitive but tht’s cool i have high standards abt tht kinda stuff; uuuhhh but yeah i personally like this kinda acoustic-esque lo-fi atmospheric vibe... like it’s almost like a soft rock song except there’s synths and the drum’s not real fldksj

spotlight: tbh this song slaps in either language!! i’m super snobby abt this kinda stuff like “oh the original language is always gonna be better, there’s always gonna be stuff tht gets lost in translation” but tbh unless i listen to both back to back i barely notice; rip the rappers tho... i love how ck just gave up and wrote everything in english fdlkjs

Blue Note All Stars: Our Point Of View (Blue Note, 2017)

Ambrose Akinmusire: trumpet; Marcus Strickland: tenor saxophone; Robert Glasper: acoustic piano, Rhodes, keyboards; Lionel Loueke: guitar, voice; Derrick Hodge: upright and electric bass; Kendrick Scott: drums.

Blue Note in it's 75 plus year history has always sought to preserve musicians at the forefront of a movement, and in the process contributed to the annals of recorded jazz history in many memorable albums.  All star conglomerates have also been a part of the label history, while the legendary recordings of musicians such as Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Jackie McLean and Horace Silver with hindsight are all star groups, in many cases they were working groups, or young musicians on the way up that had worked together in regular playing situations, both on the band stand and records.  Blue Note has assembled star bands in the past from it's roster and beyond, such as Out Of The Blue, whose long out of print “Live at Mt. Fuji” (Blue Note, 1987) remains one of that band's best works, the ensemble Superblue, and an earlier incarnation of the Blue Note All Stars with trumpeter Tim Hagans, tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson, altoist Greg Osby, and drummer Bill Stewart that recorded the adventurous post bop based “Blue Spirit” (Blue Note, 1996) . There was also the New Directions band with Osby and Jason Moran that cut a self titled album in 2000.  A different aggregation of the Blue Note All Stars is back with pianist Robert Glasper, trumpeter extraordinaire Ambrose Akinmusire, Marcus Strickland on tenor saxophone, Lionel Loueke on guitar, Derrick Hodge on bass, and Kendrick Scott on drums for “Our Point Of View” a sparkling double album whose title references Herbie Hancock's classic “My Point Of View” (Blue Note, 1962) featuring guest appearances from Hancock, and Wayne Shorter who in 2012 rejoined the label's roster after more than 30 years, where he lead 11 classic sessions from 1964-1970.

Our Point Of View was originally formed for the 75th anniversary of the label in 2014 and differs from an all star group assembled just for a record date in the sense that the sextet has played with each other in different configurations over the years, and prior to the recording of this album had been a touring ensemble lending a tightness that harkens back to classic Blue Note dates.  The album is also a testament to former label head Bruce Lundvall, who was a true champion of the music from his stints at Columbia, Elektra Musician and spearheading the reactivated Blue Note in 1984, always trusting the artists, and their vision.  In 2009 he handed the baton to Don Was, the current head at the label, whose adventuresome nature has embraced the credo of label founders Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff in recording jazz albums featuring artists with a freshness and individuality, bringing back label veterans, and expanding the scope of the label beyond jazz, in a sense a redux of the “Blue Note Hits A New Note” campaign from the mid 1970's albeit a bit musically more successful. Lundvall's passing in 2015 left a gulf, but the new group of Blue Note All Stars does more than it's part to live up of keeping jazz moving in the present while having a firm grasp of tradition.

The band has been with its members individually, and collectively have been at the  the forefront of a generation comfortably blending jazz, R&B and hip hop into the equation in a musically sensible way. “Our Point Of View” certainly does that with the groove based memorable “Meanings” from Strickland's pen, featuring a striking Hancock inspired Rhodes solo from Glasper, with the rhythm section of Hodge and Scott beautifully in tune, and the drummer's “Cycling Through Reality” which is reminiscent of a hybrid of Wayne Shorter's “ESP” and “Orbits” in voicing and melody with a pronounced swagger.  The round robin of solos certainly takes it's cue from the Miles Davis Second Quintet's method of relay style soloing found on those tunes, Loueke's guitar always referencing the melody.  The band's wink to the past with a super charged version of Shorter's “Witch Hunt”, spices things up by taking it at a racehorse tempo, and abstracting things a bit.  Akinmusire provides some of his most effervescent playing of the set by starting out his solo with sinister, probing tones, and while the band is again firmly rooted in the vocabulary of that second Davis quintet, they add flashes of hip hop and groove, neatly incorporating “Speak No Evil” into the lengthy coda. Derrick Hodge's gifts as a strong writer continue to grow with “Second Light” an electronica like soundscape also rooted in hip hop.

The bands strengths manifest themselves on a reading of Wayne Shorter's classic “Masquelero” which first appeared on the Miles Davis Quintet's “Sorcerer” (Columbia, 1967) featuring guest appearances from Shorter  and Hancock, who last appeared on a Blue Note date in 2013 on Lionel Loueke's “Karibu”. Hancock sticks to acoustic piano adding signature swirls for texture that are harmonically provocative, Glasper answers the legend on Rhodes, and the younger keyboardist's synth adds a feeling reminiscent of 80's era Miles.  Hancock's primary aim of adding to the overall eerie mood incites and constantly ignites flurries from Scott, erupting like a volcano, Shorter's bright soprano offers ironic humor and his trademark impishness out of the cauldron of darkness.  The nearly ten minute duration allows the group to stretch out and create a sustained atmosphere in one of the darker renditions of Shorter's classic recorded. Glasper's “Bayyinah” is a joyful, grooving romp, featuring an extended J. Dilla like coda, drawing upon a well the pianist loves. Lionel Loueke's “Freedom Dance” first appearing on his “Heritage” (Blue Note, 2015) is a funk doused bit of Afrobeat spice, where the entire band just locks into a zone with inspired groove and solos, the deep pocket rhythm enhanced by Scott switching to a deep, dead snare.  Ambrose Akinmusire's “Bruce, The Last Dinosaur” is an epitaph to the late executive, further examining the Western classical area the trumpeter likes to explore, with the brief piece being completely composed, offering a fitting ending.

“Our Point Of View” accomplishes it's mission by being an engaging album with a top group of younger musicians playing music that is relevant to them, reflecting back on the quality of classic Blue Note.  Without venerating the past in a museum like fashion they honor the label's past, the present, and where it's going by playing spirited, cohesive music.  Hopefully this band stays together for future endeavors because it's a very strong sextet, drawing upon a wide variety of interests ranging from jazz, R&B and hip hop.

Rating: 8.5/10