An album release from The Poets' Band delivers a beautiful and lush array of instrumentation and soundscape as they layer textures atop each other and blend in these atmospheres that come through with a robust but spacious undertone, while spoken word poetry flows through a lot of these and gives them even more depth to sit upon.
The feel album is huge with tracks spanning over 10 minutes long While others can be only 2 minutes or less. It's a very eclectic record and there is such a set of layers to it that you end up getting very involved not only in the spoken word but in the actual music itself as well.
The band offers everything from funk approaches that provide super danceable and addictive grooves to colorful approaches but also give cinematic and vaster sounds as well and those are the ones that you end up feeling a little bit stronger because they're deepening in a way.
I absolutely adore the combination of these soundscapes, textures, layers, and brilliant atmosphere that the band creates while the spoken word poetry flows, and I think this is something that really gets you paying attention and lets you feel the emotion that the songs can deliver.
That's the thing. These tracks have emotion behind them and the music is what provides that.
The poetry is beautiful a lot of the time and can be descriptive, situational, perspective-driven, and detailed but, you have this music that lets you feel the words even stronger because it pushes that aesthetic.
This is the kind of band that you end up wanting to see perform live. I feel like this is a live performance kind of group where they don't get together all the time but when they do get together, seeing them perform songs like this live would be so intense and just entrancing.
The violin is pretty prominent throughout this album, and I definitely let that hit me. It worked so well with how some of the Poetry came through.
A lot of these songs felt graceful. They were performed with heart or love really.
This is an aspect that comes through always as the record unfolds.
I also completely love the fact that it feels like this was a live record to an extent.
There are strange exchanges of energies that fluctuate between the players in the songs. The performances feed from each other. It puts you right there in the moment.
This was such a beautiful and entrancing record, while you're listening to it, you don't pay attention to anything else. You're just pulled into this world and listening to the words, feeling the music, soaking in the textures and notes.
It's been quite a while since I've heard something with such unique tonality and approach.
You can easily tell this is a passion project from beginning to end and that anyone involved with this group just does it because they can do it.
There's no other reason.
I love this because it's art. And people that listen to this record will soak it in beautifully and it will have an impact on them.
The poetry, spoken word, lyrics, whatever you want to call them, are all so creative and inspiring or, spirited in a strange way.
This was an intensely beautiful record, and you would really need to listen to the whole thing to grab everything that it offers but, this is a great experience.
I'm not sure when the last time you had an experience while listening to a record was, but this will definitely be one of them.
Listen to this one with headphones, close your eyes, kick back, and soak it all in.
Remember where you heard this first.
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