Stream the collaborative avant-garde project in its entirety.
Producer/multi-instrumentalist Jon Bap and Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Anna Wise have shared a new collaborative album. Geovariance – which released on Wednesday evening with no prior announcement – is available to stream in its entirety now.
For those unfamiliar with the aforementioned names, Wise, who creates ethereal compositions centred around layered vocals with help from a Boss loop pedal first came to the attention of many through her collaborative work with Kendrick Lamar. Her vocals featured heavily on To Pimp A Butterfly‘s ‘These Walls’ and ‘Institutionalised’ with the former earning her a Grammy award alongside collaborators Bilal and Thundercat. On 2016’s DAMN she expanded her working relationship with Lamar by developing the basis for ‘Pride’ alongside The Internet’s Steve Lacy. Bap, who hails from Dallas, Texas also takes a unique approach to music. Compositionally his choices in chords and off-kilter rhythms often lend themselves to the likes of D’Angelo, Prince et al before unravelling in to much more experimental territory that feels barely-contained at its peak. It’s Bap’s fearlessness in transitioning from neo-soul to spiritual jazz or Hella-esque drum patterns to trap interludes that makes his artistry essentially indefinable.
As you would expect, a collaboration between Wise and Bap sounds as unpredictable as it looks on paper. Dial in below.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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