“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
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
