Search - Daniel Givens :: Egress (Spkg)

"A challenging and practically unclassifiable masterpiece." -- The Advocate "A compelling intersection of the cerebral and the sensual." -- Chicago Reader "A thoughtful foray into friendly improvisation and self-conscious spoken word." -- XLR8R "A soundtrack for walking home alone late at night." -- Village Voice "Draws on improv, hip-hop, electronica, and jazz to create meditations of dimensional sound and movement in soul. Recommended." -- Other Music "Daniel Givens proceeds with no rules of genre, form, formula, audience or radio programming expectation. The record is cohesive merely by having all the pieces there sitting together. Unification by self-declaration." -- Junkmedia "Most of the tracks are based around drum parts or looped fragments of drum parts played by Givens himself. Often, the loop is centered on an off-beat so the rhythm of the loop takes on a tumbling quality with no discernable time signature or downbeat. Other times, the beat steadily chugs but is kept by a seemingly random series of drum sounds. This unique approach is somewhat refreshing and comparable to few, besides maybe Tricky." -- Pitchfork Egress arrives just in time for summer. The New York producer's surprising third album for Aesthetics interweaves new moon rhythms and vocal collages thanks to the mixing of Fred Ones (Beans, Mike Ladd and Rusty Santos (Animal Collective, Ariel Pink). Named one of URB's Next 100, Givens has toured throughout Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Denmark, and the Netherlands.