Anotha Black Sunday

Another killer mini album from Moodymann, conjuring up the spirits of gospel, blues, jazz, R’n’B, soul and disco, turning them to his own designs to create an emotive and evocative distillation of the black music tradition. A1 Mamma’s Hand starts life as a rolling soul jazz train journey of a track before warping via some FX-ridden vocals into a futurist pean with an acoustic broken jazz backdrop. Aside from the criminally short jazz house of During Soundcheck, there’s no straight-up disco, house or techno here, with Anotha Black Sunday made up of aqua-funk space-jazz/soul hybrids, integrating the production advances of electronic dance music with the fluidity of jazz.