Maxwell blacksummers night rapidshare

Every six months or so, word would finally surface that his follow up to Now was imminent and then … nothing. Only Maxwell can explain the gap between Now and, well, now. Maxwell has taken eight years to make a musical statement, and thankfully, it does not latch onto any trends, nor is it weighed down by self-importance or bloated egotism. Instead, Maxwell has grown and evolved, slowly shedding the skins of his musical selves, becoming a legend not in his own mind but in his own time.

It stands on its own and is compulsively listenable. On his fourth round in the studio, Maxwell corralled an excellent team of musicians, brilliantly fusing together the horn section with the rhythm section. Hearing the combination of trumpet, trombone and saxophone on nearly every track also reminds just how little contemporary artists use any kind of brass anymore.

With producer Hod David, Maxwell naturally integrates the horn section into the tracks, lending a live feel to the production and making it easy to imagine these songs will feel right at home in front of an audience.

In just a few seconds between the end of the second chorus and the beginning of the third verse, the song takes a turn on the momentum of a brief bass guitar chord progression by Derrick Hodge. He wrings a few different meetings from the one syllable. While a little too modest a choice for a first single, it nonetheless glistens in the context of the album. Yet what he seems to be expressing is how he — or any of us, for that matter — can leave a meaningful imprint that transcends mortality.

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