Makaya McCraven - Seventh String

Port cranes against a bright blue sky, shipping containers on the ground at the port, Puget Sound waterway in the foreground.

The first single from Makaya McCraven’s (incredible) forthcoming album “In These Times.” Amazing drum and guitar opening, percussion that’s somehow both omnipresent and restrained, a beautiful background texture. Strings and everyone else enters, the whole thing blooms. Later, midway through, it all drops out and the drums sit for a moment alone, then De’Sean Jones’s flute takes prominence and ascends. Gorgeous song.

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