Pino Palladino & Blake Mills - Notes With Attachments
2025-02-01
This project blew me away when I first heard it when their Tiny Desk (Home) Concert dropped back in June 2021. I remember just sitting there completely dumbfounded and utterly unable to process what I was hearing using any previous experience or knowledge. It was something brand new and unlike anything I had ever heard before. Everyone seems to categorize it as “jazz” but I suspect that is for lack of a better term because it is only appropriate to also mention the omnipresent West African/Afro-Cuban influences present throughout the album and that dominate a track such as EkutĂ©, or the Middle Eastern vibe that brings us Djurkel, or the laid-back, sloppy, funky soul tune Soundwalk that seems to be a major callback to Pino’s work with D’Angelo (and J-Dilla) on Voodoo.
Listen
- Ekuté: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fd9U-MT1z4
- Soundwalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hI4e0B4QFQ