Jeff Parker - The Relatives Artist_Robert Slap

Jeff Parker - The Relatives Artist_Robert SlapIf you went looking for a poster child for Chicago's multidirectional, cross pollinating, interstylistic music scene, you couldn't find a better one than Jeff Parker. Parker: jazz guitarist with pro credentials, widely travelled and prized by top soul jazzers and hard boppers. Parker: inveterate rocker who revitalized Tortoise with his ferocious improvising and tasty licks. Parker: experimentalist willing to try new dub, hip hop, electronic, collage,

but it reflects what I’ve been going through these past few years

They have produced eight regular studio albums since 1995

” says Movahedi

a compilation recording dedicated to the early 80’s Spanish Synth Wave and Post Punk scene

Avenue showcases APRO’s refined production

hits of dreamy melancholy and an unflinching willingness to experiment without forfeiting big hooks and big pop songs

'Event Beat'

and released the EP in August

Closing track “Like Ashoka’s Inferno Of Memory” ends the record on an appropriately epic note

never becoming too intrusive

The ninth studio album from the King of hip-hop and proclaimed rap god Eminem

"Blending everything that I like together and trying to make something new - that's what feels most natural to me