Invisible Hemisphere

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Day 27
song: Gluttony
artist: Jazz Mafia feat. Yvette Pylant    
lyrics  and vocal melodies by Yvette Pylant music by Adam Theis
produced and engineered by Adam Theis


personnel
Yvette Pylant - vocals
Adam Theis - drums, tuba, keys, trombone, trumpet
Dame Drummer - drums

I originally wrote the music for this song for the 20 piece Realistic Orchestra as an instrumental accompaniment for a dance piece that was performed live at Treat Social Club, an underground-collaborative performance art series I started in 2013. It was a nod to the “Electro-Swing” movement but played all live with no electronics, so I don’t know what that’s called but it was fun to play and I went into the studio to produce a version, hopefully with a vocalist. I’d been wanting to collaborate with Yvette for about 6 months after being amazed at her talent on recordings she played me. She turned around the demo I sent her into full blown/completed lyrics in less than a week and that’s where the real inspiration to finish this into something special happened for me. I re-wrote most of the horn parts and added all sorts of new flavor to the rhythm section. This is also one of my few forays into playing and sampling myself on live drums although I ended up having the amazing Dame Drummer play the more involved bridges, I don’t think I could’ve pulled those off!
   All of Yvette’s vocals were tracked in one short session and were done smoothly and effortlessly without any studio trickery. A true talent on the microphone. Expect more from us in the near future. Adam - 2/28/16

recorded at Jazz Mafia Compound Jan 2016
artwork by Courtney Duvendack
©2016 Jazz Mafia Recordings

Gluttony - Jazz Mafia Accomplices feat. Yvette Pylant

Boplicity (COVER)

These are pieces arranged on Ableton Live using drum samples, live cello parts, sliced cello parts, and vocal samples. These pieces are not complete, I would like them to have vocal and  instrumental solos. I will eventually add Cello parts to many, but I am open to anyone wanting to add or remove things. just DM me for the stems. Thanks and enjoy.

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Founded in 2000, the collective known as Jazz Mafia is one of the most ubiquitous names in innovate music on the West Coast, including such artists as: The Shotgun Wedding Quintet, Realistic Orchestra, Joe Bagale, Jazz Mafia Symphony, Brass Bows & Beats and founder Adam Theis. 
 This talented group of musicians seamlessly combines Latin polyrhythms, boom-bap rhymes, melancholy ballads, swinging jazz and blistering solos, while at the same time adhering to symphonic structural elements. All spun together in the spirit of a Jazz Era big band- but conducted with a maestro's sense of timing, timbre, and mood- the experience is akin to watching the New York Philharmonic back a street corner B-Boy battle in the heart of downtown Oakland.

The "Brass, Bows & Beats" premiere sold out two shows at the Palace Of Fine Arts as well a sold out a six-show run at Yoshi's in San Francisco. The 60 piece incarnation of Jazz Mafia's "Brass, Bows & Beats" that premiered at the Palace of Fine Arts was recorded and released as a live album in June 2010. 2010 has been a break through year for Jazz Mafia, with performances at the Newport Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Playboy Jazz Festival (Hollywood Bowl), and the Monterey Jazz Festival. 

The original 60-piece Palace ensemble can be pared down to a tighter core of 40 to accommodate and emphasize more intimate settings. The piece marks a coming of age for The Jazz Mafia as a new voice in composition. Jazz Mafia Symphony is a monumental achievement displaying an exciting barrage of compositional elements, which the composers ingeniously weave together through a complex blend of skill, talent and courage. An eager and quickly growing global audience awaits their further contributions. A creative force on the Bay Area music scene for more than a decade, the loose-knit band of jazz cats, MCs, arrangers and composers known collectively as The Jazz Mafia, is fast emerging as the most prolific musical organization on the West Coast. Launching some of the Bay Area's most innovative and stylistically expansive ensembles, these musicians contribute their varied talents to a cross-cultural mix of new beats and melodies, blended with instrumental virtuosity. The Jazz Mafia Horns have recorded in the studio with Carlos Santana and backed artists such as Zion-I, KRS One, and Thomas Dolby. Other bands in the JM pantheon include The Shotgun Wedding Quintet, the incredible Realistic Orchestra, Supertaster with Joe Bagale, Brass Mafia, Jazz Mafia Trio, Spaceheater, and The Shotgun Wedding Hip Hop Symphony. With top-tier brass players and an always premium rhythm section, and dealing in jazz, funk, hip hop, soul, R&B and more, The Jazz Mafia form one of the most powerful assemblies of virtuosic performers on the West Coast.

Gluttony - Jazz Mafia Accomplices feat. Yvette Pylant

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