Much is sun-struck and dreamy-warm, replete with collages of beat science and neo-pastoral ambience, like HipHop gone New Age, with tropes-rainsticks, wind-chimes, higher consciousness-recontextualized. Where Teebs is at is hard to pin down, but it sounds like a good place-mixing with mates, Jonti, Populous, and fellow- Son of the Morning, Scott Herren ( Prefuse 73), and Jaga Jazzist‘s Lars Horntveth. As one of L.A.’s Flying Lotus–led Brainfeeder collective, he’s naturally big on beats and bass, though refracted, after its founder’s off-kilter bent, driven less by boom-bap imperative than the diffusion of a heady vibe via tone color and harmonic motif. I want listeners to grasp those feelings with a record like this.’ (Mtendere Mandowa, Earmilk). Title, E S T A R A, after estar (Sp.)-be/stay, ‘…applies more to a state of being, the feeling of understanding where you are, where you were, where you want to be, physically or mentally. The tone-painting beat-poet’s licence is here extended courtesy of Brainfeeder-2011’s self-released Collections 01 being more a set of sketches than an album proper-enabling a vein of kaleidoscopic hip-hop infused with elements from shoegaze to Exotica to be further mined. It burst with audio-mediated greenery-mellow and lush, languid and energized-with a warp and weft of instrumental collage smeared with a patina of ageing cream. Teebs dropped his debut, Ardour, back in 2010 to some acclaim ( ‘one of the most beautiful albums of the year, alternating between trembling lullabies and softly thumping hip-hop daydreams.’ (Andrew Ryce, RA)). Naturally big on beats and bass, though refracted, after its founder’s off-kilter bent, driven less by boom-bap imperative than the diffusion of a heady vibe via tone color and harmonic motif.
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