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Black Decelerant, Contour, Omari Jazz - Reflections Vol. 2: Black Decelerant (2024) [Hi-Res]

Black Decelerant, Contour, Omari Jazz - Reflections Vol. 2: Black Decelerant (2024) [Hi-Res]

BAND/ARTIST: Black Decelerant, Contour, Omari Jazz

  • Title: Reflections Vol. 2: Black Decelerant
  • Year Of Release: 2024
  • Label: RVNG Intl.
  • Genre: Electronic, Ambient
  • Quality: MP3 320 kbps; 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC; 24-bit/96kHz FLAC
  • Total Time: 37 min
  • Total Size: 144; 229; 720 MB
  • WebSite:
Portland leftfield producer Omari Jazz and Charleston R&B singer/beatmaker Khari Lucas (aka Contour) both share an ear for the majestically hazy, and their solo work earlier in the 2020s was often meditative enough to entirely recalibrate a listener's sense of space. In teaming up as Black Decelerant, a remote cross-coastal project that came into shape during COVID lockdown, their recalibration here comes from a deep place of searching and contemplation. Inspired in part by artist/critic Aria Dean's breakdown of the concept of "Blacceleration"—a political accelerationism based around an apocalyptic sense of Black people's role as human capital—Reflections Vol. 2: Black Decelerant serves as a corrective to that pressure. As a work of ambient music, its sense of spacious, soaring calm is intended to detach the listener from the relentless grind of the machine and offer them a sense of respite. And while there are phases and moments that can stir up memories of spiritual jazz (the burbling, smeared Lonnie Liston Smith-esque electric piano of "one") or Afrofuturist synth-soul (the wandering, wavering high-pitched analog tremors on "six"), this is music that's also freeing because it's detached from the impulse to represent any clear traditional path through genre. It's beatless and wholly instrumental—the only voice is a repeated pitched-down sample of someone referring to "a kind of inner self-realization" on "seven ½"—but its meaning still resonates, carried through on the ruminative acoustic guitar/bass interplay on "five" or the weighty low-end tremors underpinning the synth flutters of "nine" and the piercing sun-ray brightness of Jawwaad Taylor's trumpet on "two" and "eight." Black Decelerant is a break from struggle and momentum, a much-needed breathing room at a time when everything else feels like it's closing in on us. ~ Nate Patri

Tracklist:
1.01 - Black Decelerant - three (5:50)
1.02 - Black Decelerant - one (4:56)
1.03 - Black Decelerant - six (5:53)
1.04 - Black Decelerant - seven 1/2 (1:18)
1.05 - Contour, Omari Jazz, Black Decelerant - two (2:35)
1.06 - Contour, Omari Jazz, Black Decelerant - five (3:30)
1.07 - Black Decelerant - nine (4:42)
1.08 - Black Decelerant - eight (3:46)
1.09 - Black Decelerant - four (5:25)


Year 2024 | Electronic | Ambient | FLAC / APE | Mp3 | HD & Vinyl

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