: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Kassa Overall : Album.......: I Think I'm Good : : Label.......: Brownswood Recordings .. .:.. . Genre.......: Jazz : Catnr.......: BWOOD0219CD . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2020-07-22 Str.date....: 2020-02-28 Quality.....: 259kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://kassaoverall.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Visible Walls 3:04 2. Please Don't Kill Me (feat. Joel Ross and Theo 2:59 Croker) 3. Find Me (feat. J Hoard) 4:52 4. I Know You See Me (feat. J Hoard and Melanie 3:21 Charles) 5. Sleeping on the Train 1:05 6. Show Me a Prison (feat. J Hoard and Angela 3:42 Davis) 7. Halfway House 3:45 8. Landline (feat. Carlos Overall) 2:23 9. Darkness in Mind (feat. Sullivan Fortner) 6:01 10. The Best of Life (feat. Aaron Parks) 1:56 11. Got Me a Plan 3:03 12. Was She Happy (For Geri Allen) (feat. Vijay 3:45 Iyer) ______ \ / ________ Runtime 39:56 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 77.99 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: Seattle-raised, Brooklyn-residing Kassa Overall is a jazz :, : musician, emcee, singer, producer, and drummer. His second, : :' full-length album, I THINK IÆM GOOD, is the work of an artist ': ,: whose voice has ripened to its own hard-earned, provocative :, : conclusions, erasing the need to talk about dissolving barriers : :' between hip hop and jazz because he has begun a new ': ,: conversation. :, : : :' I THINK IÆM GOOD is a window into the real life of Overall, a ': ,: Bushwick-based artist wrestling with the abhorrent American :, : prison system, the ebbs and flows of romantic relationships, and : :' perils of trust, all seen through the kaleidoscopic lens of a ': ,: brilliant 21st century composer. The backdrop to these varied :, : themes is Overall confronting his experience with mental : :' illness, which included a manic episode and subsequent ': ,: hospitalisation when he was a student. Themes of incarceration :, : and claustrophobia weave through the record, but never drown out : :' the feeling of a fragile but vital hope. ': ,: :, : ôMental instability or hyper-sensitivity was something that felt : :' too taboo to talk about," said Overall. "I want to show the ': ,: world that mentally sensitive people are the innovators of our :, : society, and hopefully set a new standard that includes a : :' healthy way of life and embracing our unique perspective on ': ,: reality.ö :, : : :' Recent years have seen something of a worldwide movement making ': ,: jazz and improvised music relevant to fresh audiences, providing :, : a critical cultural counterpoint to feelings of political : :' disenfranchisement and globalised anxiety. Exciting scenes are ': ,: springing out of grassroots musical communities from London to :, : Melbourne, Chicago to Johannesburg. But perhaps the most vital : :' of these scenes remains in New York, a city that is still ': ,: ground zero for the most competitive jazz musicians in the :, : world, a community that continues unbroken from Charlie Parker : :' to the present. This is OverallÆs home turf, and it shows on I ': ,: THINK IÆM GOOD, which is a tour de force of New YorkÆs brightest :, : young up-and-comers (Joel Ross, Morgan Guerin, Julius Rodriguez, : :' Melanie Charles, J Hoard) as well as some of its more ': ,: established fixtures, including Sullivan Fortner, Brandee :, : Younger, Theo Croker, Craig Taborn, Aaron Parks, and Vijay Iyer. : :' IyerÆs contribution is a gorgeous, melancholic tribute to their ': ,: shared musical mentor, Geri Allen, with whom Overall played for :, : seven years. Dr. Angela Davis, a longtime jazz supporter and fan : :' of OverallÆs work, makes a recorded cameo, punctuating the ': ,: albumÆs dive into the human condition and exploration of social :, : justice. : :' ': ,: Like Karriem Riggins before him, Overall belongs to a rare class :, : of musicians naturally fluent in both jazz performance and : :' hip-hop production. HeÆs also a clear contemporary of brazen, ': ,: potent genre-shifters like Madlib, Flying Lotus, Solange, and :, : Kendrick Lamar. Yet one of the most striking aspects of I THINK : :' IÆM GOOD is its singular intimacy, a byproduct of OverallÆs ': ,: indie hustle and uncanny at-home and on-the-fly production :, : methods. In fact, most of the album happened out of OverallÆs : :' Bushwick bedroom and a backpack. "IÆve recently begun to think ': ,: of myself as a backpack jazz producer, which is something like a :, : cross between a jazz musician, a backpack rapper and a bedroom : :' producer," said Overall, who mostly used a skeletal mobile ': ,: studio (laptop, a simple audio interface, and microphone), :, : giving the album a distinctively inward, almost confidential : :' flavour. ': ,: :, : But Overall describes his method as being a far more social : :' endeavour than bedroom production. "The bedroom producer is ': ,: mostly solitary and stationary, but the backpack producer is :, : collaborative, mobile, and totally improvisatory in the truest : :' sense of our tradition. My studio is with me almost all the ': ,: time. I need to be able to work whenever and wherever, at my own :, : pace.ö : :' ': ,: As Time Out New York frames his talent, Overall is ôa :, : Renaissance man: part chopsy, super-funky jazz drummer, and part : :' rising producer-MC.ö Since the January 2019 release of Ice ': ,: Cream, NYC and global audiences have had the opportunity to :, : experience OverallÆs singular brilliance, which has been : :' embraced with rave reviews from The New York Times, AFROPUNK, ': ,: Downbeat, NPR, BBC Radio 6 Music, and other influential media :, : outlets. : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 2 0 \/