Makaya McCraven - In These Times

In These Times, the new album by percussionist, producer and composer Makaya McCraven, has been in process since 2015. It's the album McCraven's been trying to make since he started making records, an appropriately career-defining body of work.

The 11-song suite was created throughout seven-plus years, as McCraven strived to fuse odd-meter compositions from his working songbook with orchestral, large-ensemble arrangements and the edit-heavy "organic beat music" he's honed throughout the years.

With contributions from more than a dozen musicians and creative partners from his tight-knit circle of collaborators — including Jeff Parker, Junius Paul, Brandee Younger, Joel Ross and Marquis Hill — In These Times highlights McCraven's unique gift for collapsing space, destroying borders, and blending past, present and future into poly-textural arrangements of post-genre, jazz-rooted 21st century folk music.

Side A

1. In These Times

2. The Fours

3. High Fives

4. Dream Another

5. Lullaby

Side B

1. This Place That Place

2. The Calling

3. Seventh String

4. So Ubuji

5. The Knew Untitled

6. The Title

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