Esperanzaspalding.com Website Review

“appealing doses of genre-defying experimental pop” - brooklyn vegan. “magic…pure imagination and also incredibly tactile” – npr music. over the past 12 months, i’ve been moving further and further away from a “musician” kind of identity, and further into a…what. would happen if…” identity.  there isn’t a page for that yet on itunes..so while they work on that, let me explain what’s goin’ on. body tingle: hands, legs, solar-plexus, ears, feet, arms…  (no i don’t use drugs)… this tingling had a kind of healing sensation,. and i wondered: can i harness these 12 little sensation-revelations into sounds, words, imagery, and performance that activates this. healing, tingling effect in others?  i’m gonna go ahead and as*ume: yes… (all of us creating away here on this live-show and. album as*ume so…we’re audacious like that) oh, and getting initiated into reiki definitely helped set up this paradigm… of. articulating the idea that nourishing energies moving through one person, can be shared with another… (and someone else might have a. profound little thing to say about that and the very nature of being a performer…but…we’ll leave it to them…)but, like any. responsible magic-maker, i can’t tell you anymore. you’ll have to wait ’til we’re in the sound and space together…and just feel. it. (and if you don’t feel a da*n thing twinkling in your solar-plexus - or anywhere else- at least here’s some dope as*.