SPALDING,ESPERANZA - SONGWRIGHTS APOTHECARY LAB Vinyl LP

Esperanza Spalding's 2022 GRAMMY Award-winning album SONGWRIGHTS APOTHECARY LAB explores how songwriters may incorporate knowledge in consultation with practitioners of music therapy, neuroscience, and more to create music that can have a specific effect on the listener. These 12 new songs were created and recorded with different musicians in her traveling lab over several months and follow her GRAMMY Award-winning album from 2019, 12 Little Spells.

Esperanza launched the Songwrights Apothecary Lab in April 2020 with "Formwela 1", "Formwela 2" and "Formwela 3", a suite created as a salve for the grief and loneliness brought on by the pandemic, featuring a number of musicians includingWayne Shorter, PhoelixandRaphael Saadiq.

Connected by their need to enhance the ability to say what is most difficult to say between loved ones, she worked with collaboratorCorey Kingon the soaring and stripped back single "Formwela 4", featuring arpeggiated acoustic guitar and duetting vocals. Esperanza shares that she crafted "Formwela 4" "for when an un-revealed current at the river bottom of your being needs to rise up and be made lovingly legible."

Tracks:

1. Formwela 1
2. Formwela 2 featuring Ganavya
3. Formwela 3
4. Formwela 4 featuring Corey King
5. Formwela 5 featuring Corey King
6. Formwela 6 featuring Corey King
7. Formwela 7
8. Formwela 8
9. Formwela 9
10. Formwela 10
11. Formwela 11
12. Formwela 13

Label: Concord Records