Esperanza Spalding Releases New Album, “Songwrights Apothecary Lab”
Esperanza Spalding has released her eighth album as a leader, entitled Songwrights Apothecary Lab. Building off of the three-song EP from April, the album contains twelve songs titled “Formwela” that each are designed to be a healing experience.
Spalding consulted with music therapists and neuroscientists plus experts in Sufism and South Indian Carnatic music to give each piece a specific feeling or result. For example, Formwelas 1-3 were written in Wasco County, Oregon and inspired by the landscape. Formwela 1 is described as an “atmosphere of temple-like calm flooding through and saturating the centrifuge of self.”
Check out “Formwela 10”:
Songwrights Apothecary Lab is available now on CD, vinyl and as a digital download (iTunes and Amazon MP3).
Songwrights Apothecary Lab Track List:
- Formwela 1
- Formwela 2 (Feat. Ganavya)
- Formwela 3
- Formwela 4
- Formwela 5 (Feat. Corey King)
- Formwela 6 (Feat. Corey King)
- Formwela 7
- Formwela 8
- Formwela 9
- Formwela 10
- Formwela 11
- Formwela 13
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