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Life's One Valid Expression

by Reach

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The 15-song self-produced album clocks in at just over 51 minutes. On L.O.V.E., Reach is flanked by trumpeter Hermon Mehari, vibraphonist Peter Schlamb, vocalists JaySol (Kansas City) and Kayla Starks (Dallas), and longtime partner-in-rhyme Les Izmore. The project covers a lot of conceptual ground with topics such as love, loss, the American project, gentrification and race relations. The writing may well comprise the most revolutionary tone of Reach’s long career. The musical backdrop mines the best of the Boom Bap era filtered through a contemporary aesthetic. Over the past several years, Reach’s focus has been musical production and his maturation is evident on Life’s One Valid Expression. The musical wheelhouse for Reach the producer – credited on the album as d’Jawnz – is a confluence of Jazz, Traditional Soul and Contemporary R&B. It’s a fitting palette for an album with such mature content.

credits

released October 29, 2021

All tracks produced by: d'Jawnz.

Track 1,
Additional Vocals: Louis Moten
Trumpet: Hermon Mehari
Vibraphone: Peter Schlamb

Track 2,
Additional Vocals: Kayla Starks

Track 6,
Additional Vocals: Les Izmore

Track 9,
Additional Vocals: JaySol

Track 15,
Additional Vocals: JaySol

Album Recorded/Mixed/Mastered by: B. Harris
Artwork by: Stacy D. Smith

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Reach Kansas City

Reach has released eight album projects to date: Joys, Disappointments, and the In-Between (2004), Corner Speech (2008), The Pen Pusha Mixtape (2011), Live at recordBar (2013), Perfect Strangers (2014), Nothing Gold Can Stay (2017), beat tape A Prelude to LOVE (2021) and Life's One Valid Expression (2021). ... more

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