Carm - Carm (2021)

The music of ​care​ features horns in re typically reserved for drums, guitars, and voices, while also escaping the genre categorizations reserved for music featuring an instrumentalist as bandleader. It is not jazz or classical music, nor is it a soundtrack. This is contemporary popular music that features a sound normally used as a background color and texture as the unabashed lead voice. According to care, aka CJ camerieri, "it started with the question: 'what kind of record would my trumpet-playing heroes from the past make today?' I believe they would want to work with the best producers, beat makers, song-writers, and singers to create new, truly culturally relevant music, and that's what I sought to do with this project." produced in Minneapolis by ​Ryan Olson​ (​POLICA​, ​Dizzy​) and featuring collaborations with ​sufjan Stevens​, ​Justin Vernon​ (​Bon Iver​), ​Yo la ten go​, ​shara Nova​, ​Mouse on Mars​, ​Francis and the lights​ and many others. It is a completely unique sound that additionally serves as a Survey of the collaborations that have come to define the artist's career thus far.