Sam Gendel - COOKUP (2023) [Official Digital Download]

Sam Gendel always sounded to me like Lofi-house without beats, a saxophonized lung train, A.G. Cook on a cough syrup diet. Why did everyone celebrate every little Fürzlein that escaped at Leaving Records? I have no idea. If this was the great avant-garde of the so-called ambient jazz, it could be gendeln! That's how it has been so far. With "Cookup", now published on Nonesuch, everything is different. Sam Gendel has taken apart R&B songs with his special, Philippe Melanson and Gabe Noel, both collaborators of Kamasi Washington or Ben LaMar Gay. Yes, R'n'B songs! And so the list reads like the line-up of a halftime show at the Super Bowl: Beyoncé, Erykah Badu, Aaliyah. Sam Gendel borrowed the sheet music from them and immediately lost it again. Nevertheless, you have to thank them for the warmth of the lap. If Gendel occasionally comes up with the idea of tinkling the "Twin Peaks" melody on the vibraphone, while the all-time cuddle "I Swear" curls over the dulcimer, the hand slips one floor lower anyway. Before the morality police step on the scene: "Cookup" also goes through as a soft soap for the Sunday swank with the in-laws. It couldn't be better without a trip to the Club of Gore.

TRACKLIST

1. Sam Gendel - Differences
2. Sam Gendel - Anywhere (feat. Meshell Ndegeocello)
3. Sam Gendel - Are You That Somebody
4. Sam Gendel - I Swear
5. Sam Gendel - Candy Rain
6. Sam Gendel - In Those Jeans
7. Sam Gendel - Crazy In Love
8. Sam Gendel - I Wanna Know
9. Sam Gendel - Didn't Cha Know
10. Sam Gendel - Let Me Love You
11. Sam Gendel - SWV Medley
12. Sam Gendel - Water Runs Dry



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