"it's full of strength, beauty and speaks to the future" - NPR
"The music swirls and floats past like a multicolored cloud" - STEREOGUM
"swirling arrangementswhich synthesize jazz, hip-hop, neoclassical, and electronic" - PITCHFORK
"Overlapping club tropes with jazz improvisation, Ben Marc has gradually finessed a unique style, one that could only come from London" - CLASH
Producer and multi-instrumentalist Ben Marc, who's emerged as a key figure of London's cutting edge jazz scene, has just announced his debut full length, a follow up to last Septembers widely acclaimed Breathe Suite EP (heralded by NPR, Pitchfork, The Wire, The Guardian, and more). Glass Effect is an assured and accomplished 13-track realization of a singular vision that unifies a multitudinous profusion of influences (free-jazz, broken beat, hip-hop, electronica and beyond) into a sublime whole, underscoring the evolution of his quest for a distinctive sound: lambent, low-key, and yet dizzyingly intricate.
Its a rare talent that can link Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, Ethio-jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke, Afrofuturists Sun Ra Arkestra, and grime legend Dizzee Rascal, but Marc has long blurred musical worlds and criss-crossed boundaries. One of the reasons that he started writing Glass Effect, says Marc, was going to nightclubs in Ibiza and experiencing the heady sun-dappled euphoria of a summery dancefloor, as well as the beat-driven production of artists like Four Tet, Bonobo, Machinedrum, DJ Shadow, and Madlib.
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- Format: Vinyl
- Genre: Hip Hop, Jazz
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Track Listing:
A1 Way We Are
A2 Sometimes Slow
A3 Dark Clouds
A4 Straight No Chasing
A5 Give Me Time
A6 Glass Effect
B1 First Batch
B2 Jaw Bone
B3 Keep Moving
B4 This Time Next Year
B5 Sweet Nineteen
B6 Mustard
B7 Make Way