Originally a boogie-some and boyant instrumental written by The All’s Eye’s main man, Ari Joshua, “Say What You Wanna Say” has a whole new sound, a whole new musical lease of life, this time replete with cool vocals to match its slinky and soulful sonics.
Featuring the mellifluous sounds of Kris Yunker’s keyboard, Ben Atkind’s expressive and deeply groovy beats, and with Joshua front and centre on guitar and vocals, it’s a marvelous makeover. The original was cool enough, but this is something else.
Blending wandering psychedelics, understated yet funky grooves, and guitars that stab and soar, as if trying (and succeeding) to capture the musical essence of a horn section, it is a song that wanders all over the musical map to find exactly the right sonic gems with which to build its sound. In doing so, it adds one more dimension to the ever-evolving, always expanding All’s Eye creative tsunami.
There is a freedom found in the playing that is rare in the modern age, no doubt the result of the often semi-improvisational way that the band works. It reminds us that something overrehearsed, overthought, and overworked can only be a recital, whereas The All’s Eye makes music in the moment, fresh, free, fuzzed-out, and gloriously funky! Credit where it is due also to engineer Mclee Mathais for capturing music as it happens.
We live in a world where much modern music is rehearsed, regulated, and regimented, polished within an inch of its life, conformist, and compromised by the allure of chart possibility. With The All’s Eye, the music comes first; it is all that matters in that creative zone. Whatever happens to it after the event is in the hands of fate.
What an honest and authentic approach, if only more people adopted such an attitude!
On a footnote, and as if Ari Joshua wasn’t busy enough, a new track, “ Blurry Face” featuring Ari Joshua, John Medeski, & Billy Martin is out now, with a new track from that line up, also featuring bassist Jason Fraticelli, called “Reversible Submersible” is coming May 23rd. Is there no stopping these people!
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