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“A band like Resavoir can only be born and thrive in a city like Chicago.”
– Britt Julious, Chicago Tribune
“Draws On The Tradition Established By Other Fine Chicago Jazz-Inflected Exports Over The Years (Rotary Connection, Tortoise, Earth, Wind & Fire) While Also Pushing Beyond Categorical Boundaries To Create A Debut That Is Soulful And Ear-Catching…”
“It’s Just 30 Minutes Long, But The Songs Here Overflow With Ideas And Imagination.”
– Tyler Wilcox, Aquarium Drunkard
“Lush and lovely, it offers peace to a world in which such feelings are hard to come by. It's an escape, for those who might need it.”
“ …hypnotic and fascinating…”
“Each of Resavoir’s nine tracks exists somewhere between spontaneous improvisation and bedroom-pop sampling, giving the album a surreal feeling resembling a lucid dream.”
Riding the ripples of their debut single “Escalator” (which BBC’s Gilles Peterson called “a winner,” and Supreme Standards’ Tina Edwards likened to “Radiohead on a Jazz trip”), Chicago collective Resavoir return with their first full length effort. The self-titled album presents a juicy suite of elegantly-orchestrated lo-fi jazz instrumentals germinated from home recording experiments by the group’s producer/arranger Will Miller. Applying a compositional approach attributable to his experience producing hip-hop beats as much as his studies at Oberlin Conservatory, Miller built melodic sketches on foundations of samples & loops before bringing pieces to the group for collective development. After integrating recordings of the full band into his home-produced impressions (not unlike IARC predecessors Jeff Parker and Makaya McCraven), he overdubbed another dozen friends into the mix (including Brandee Younger, Sen Morimoto, Carter Lang, Knox Fortune and Macie Stewart) before finalizing the arrangements. In Miller’s modest editing room, Resavoir grew from experiment into epic opus recalling the lush, psychedelic soul jazz orchestrations of David Axelrod & Charles Stepney… but in the sampled-laden style of Yesterday’s New Quintet, Broadcast, or Thundercat, with a lyrical affinity for minimalism & texturalism, like trumpeter/composers Jon Hassell & Justin Walter.
Selected Press
VICE
Resavoir's Spiritual Jazz Debut Offers Peace to Those Who Need It
Pitchfork
8.2
Paste Magazine
No Album Left Behind: Resavoir’s Resavoir
Stereogum
Ugly Beauty: The Month In Jazz – July 2019
The Chicago Tribune
Resavoir is a uniquely Chicago band with a unique sound
Aquarium Drunkard
Bandcamping :: Autumn 2019
Notes
Written, Arranged, and Produced by Will Miller.
Featuring (in order of appearance):
Akenya Seymour – voice, piano, wurlitzer, sampler,
Will Miller – sampler, trumpets, synth, piano, wurlitzer, B3 organ
Macie Stewart – violins
Lane Beckstrom – bass
Colin Croom – synth
J.P. Floyd – trombone
Mira Magrill – flute, bamboo flutes
Peter Manheim – drums, percussion
Zoe Miller – violin
Irvin Pierce – tenor saxophone
Brian Sanborn – guitar
Brandee Younger – harp
Jeremy Cunningham – drums, electronic drums
Wills McKenna – flute
Luke Sangerman – electronic drums
Knox Fortune – drum programming
Sen Morimoto – voice, saxophone
Carter Lang – wurlitzer drum machine, additional production
Recorded (mostly) at the Armitage apartment (2018/19), the coach
house (2015), and Decade Music Studio (2019).
Tracks 1, 4, 5, 7, 9 mixed by Will Miller.
Tracks 2, 3, 6, 8 mixed by Dave Vettraino.
Mastered by David Allen.
Design and Layout by Crystal Zapata.
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About Resavoir
Resavoir is a diverse collective of instrumentalists – most of whom are Chicago born & raised, some of whom have been playing together since high school, all of whom represent exciting new directions in Chicago’s fertile contemporary jazz & creative music scenes. The core lineup features Will Miller on trumpet/synths, Irvin Pierce on saxophone, Akenya Seymour on keys/vocals, Lane Beckstrom on bass, Peter Manheim on drums and Jeremy Cunningham on drums. All highly active players, the band’s compiled resume includes collaborations with Noname, Chance the Rapper, Makaya McCraven, Jeff Parker, Saba, Nick Mazzarella, Mavis Staples and many more. The group is led by the composing, producing & arranging work of Will Miller, a trumpeter by trade who, thus far, is most known as a member of the band Whitney, or for his brass cameos on tracks by Mac Miller, Lil Wayne, Eryn Allen Kane, Twin Peaks, A$AP Rocky and Xavier Omar.