Kinfolk: Postcards from Everywhere

by Nate Smith

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Jeff G aka Cuepoint the DJ A Haiku:
Sublime, entrancing,
Velvety soulful, funky
Is all I can say! Favorite track: Skip Step.

Mohan Thomas The funk on this record gave me a bit of nostalgia for the band Lettuce, but with a harder jazz slant. Interwoven with soul and rnb. It's a real epic of an album. Featuring some tremendous musicians. Highly recommended, looking forward to what comes next.

Franck manguin saw them live this week in Paris. SO great I almost cried !

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1.	Intro: Wish You Were Here 00:29	buy track
2.	Skip Step 03:04	buy track
3.	Bounce: pts I + II 05:33	buy track
4.	Mom: Postcards From Detroit/Floyd/Salem 00:45	buy track
5.	Retold 04:54	buy track
6.	Disenchantment: The Weight (feat. Amma Whatt) 05:42	buy track
7.	Spinning Down 08:40	buy track
8.	Pages (feat. Gretchen Parlato) 03:51	buy track
9.	From Here: Interlude 02:34	buy track
10.	Morning and Allison (feat. Amma Whatt) 05:06	buy track
11.	Spiracles 05:26	buy track
12.	Small Moves: Interlude 02:30	buy track
13.	Dad: Postcards from Isaac Street 01:36	buy track
14.	Home Free (for Peter Joe) 05:50	buy track

about

“In conceiving this project, I wanted to focus on creating the material with very few ingredients; just improvising at the drums or piano or singing ideas into a voice recorder, focusing primarily on rhythm and melody. I want to see what other ingredients the players or singers would bring to the material. I’m interested in a true band sound: I want to know how the musicians will color, shape, and season the raw ingredients, and how to pull all of those pieces together to a whole.” - Nate Smith

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released February 3, 2017

Produced by Nate Smith for Waterbaby Music, Inc.
Executive Producers: Kelvin A. Moses, Anthony A. Lewis, Ira N. Smith
Mixed by Brian Bender at The Motherbrain, Los Angeles, CA

Nate Smith: drums, percussion, fender rhodes, synths, sounds
Kris Bowers: piano, fender rhodes
Fima Ephron: electric bass
Jeremy Most: guitars
Jaleel Shaw: alto and soprano saxophones

Featuring:
Dave Holland: acoustic bass, “Skip Step” “Spinning Down”
Lionel Loueke: guitar, “Skip Step” “Spinning Down”
Chris Potter: tenor saxophone, “Bounce parts I + II”
Gretchen Parlato: vocals, “Pages”
Michael Mayo: vocals, vocal percussion/effects, “Skip Step” “Retold”
Amma Whatt: vocals, “Disenchantment: The Weight” “Morning and Allison”
Adam Rogers: acoustic and electric guitars, “Spiracles”

Strings on “Disenchantment: The Weight” arranged by Kris Bowers
Strings on “Home Free (for Peter Joe)” arranged by Nate Smith

Stephanie Matthews: violin I
Juliette Jones: violin II/contractor
Christiana Liberis: viola
Reenat Pinchas: cello

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Nate Smith New York, New York

Ira Nathaniel "Nate" Smith (b. December 14, 1974) is an American drummer, composer, songwriter and producer.

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