All-around Breakdown: Super Hi-Fi Bandleader & Bass Player Ezra Gale Breaks Down New Album Blue & White (Very Special Recordings)
I've personally, been rockin' out to Super Hi-Fi 's new album, Blue & White —which is out today on Very Special Recordings —since January thanks to Alex Pastuhov at Behind The Curtains Media . Luckily, I've had time to sit with the album and digest it's complex Reggae/Rock -fusing stylings. Blue & White was recorded directly to tape at Jersey City -based 9 Lives Studios with engineer Nicola Stemmer ; bandleader and bassist Eza Gale produced the album himself, which features the talents of fellow Super Hi-Fi bandmates Rick Parker , Robert Stringer, Jon Lipscomb , Ezra Gale, and Madhu Siddappa , as well as a crew of talented friends and musically-inclined associates. Collectively, Super Hi-Fi 's members have played alongside a wide array of artists, including Beyoncé , Curren$y, Donovan , Bill Frisell, Gregory Porter , and The Skatalites. " Blue & White is an album punctuated by dueling trombones, gut-rattling basslines, and Afrobeat -insp...