Carl Craig's jazz offshoot the innerzone orchestra came out with this piece in their programmed album from 1999. The album is truly pre-millenial, mixing up natural fluid intrumentation and programming wizardry with an ear for a riff and a groove. There's hip hop, house, techno, jazz, soul all effortlessly orchestrated by Craig. This track opens with a good 2 minutes of ethereal percussion (from Francisco Mora Catlett) and shimmering electric piano (from Craig Taborn), before the bass rolls in and the groove really starts. Over four minutes in and some amplified violin shakes things up. Arguably the track never 'goes' anywhere, but sometimes you shouldn't want to do anything so prosaic as to go somewhere. This is meandering, some might say noodling, at its most listenable and perfectly executed.
Innerzone Orchestra - Basic Math
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