P'taah - Decompressed

Despite the resolute jazzed-up austerity of 1999's Compressed Light, Decompressed, a collection of remixes and unreleased tracks, finds Chris Brann's (Wamdue) alter ego P'taah adopting Brazilian jazz and pop as a way of lightening his sound while keeping it highly sophisticated and full of surprises with the aid of a few collaborators. On an unreleased version of "Flying High," vocalist Terence Downs chants in Portuguese over the house-meets-bossa rhythm. On "No One, No How," remixed by the Off World Ensemble with trap kit percussion by Genoa Mungin, vocals by Kebbi Williams and saxophones by Downs take the drum'n'house vibe and skate it down into deep samba territory, with cross-faded rhythms and in-the-cut drum loops. Read More