Artist: Sparkle Division
Album: To Feel Embraced
Genre: Nu Jazz, Electronic, Lounge
Release Date: 2020
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 44,1 kHz
Duration: 41:25
Total Tracks: 13
Total Size: 425 MB

Tracklist:

1-01. Sparkle Division – You Go Girl! (01:24)
1-02. Sparkle Division – You Ain’t Takin’ My Man (04:14)
1-03. Sparkle Division – For Gato (03:06)
1-04. Sparkle Division – Oh Henry! (04:19)
1-05. Sparkle Division – To the Stars Major Tom (02:46)
1-06. Sparkle Division – Oh No You Did Not! (04:04)
1-07. Sparkle Division – To Feel (06:07)
1-08. Sparkle Division – To Feel Embraced (03:08)
1-09. Sparkle Division – Slappin’ Yo Face (01:26)
1-10. Sparkle Division – Mmmmkayy I’m Goin’ Out Now and I Don’t Want Any Trouble From You! (03:24)
1-11. Sparkle Division – Queenie Got Her Blues (01:06)
1-12. Sparkle Division – Sparkle On Sad Sister Mother Queen (01:46)
1-13. Sparkle Division – No Exit (04:31)

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After years of producing and mentoring slews of young artists in 1990s Williamsburg, Brooklyn, William Basinski moved to Los Angeles. There he hired a young studio assistant, Preston Wendel, who eventually introduced his own works to the curious composer. That spawned a creative partnership that inspired Wendel to persuade Basinski to haul out his saxophone. Five years later, Sparkle Division has arrived with their enchanting debut album, To Feel Embraced. Produced by Spaarkle Division at Basinski’s Musex International in Los Angeles, the duo were joined by a few notable friends: Mrs. Leonora Russo (who Basinski affectionately calls “the true Sicilian Sparkle Division, my Brooklyn Mom, the Queen of Williamsburg”) offers her sparkling voice to Queenie Got Her Blues; fabled free-jazz icon and genuine bodhisattva, the late Henry Grimes, contributed upright bass and violin to the aptly-named Oh Henry! (“Lotta babies gonna be born from this one,” Henry and Margaret Davis Grimes playfully declared); and London vocalist Xeli Grana offers her ethereal voice to the album’s meditative title track. Conceived and nearly completed in 2016, the increasing environmental and political infernos gave Basinski and Wendel cold feet about unleashing a record intended to be fun, loving, and prone to bouts of euphoria. But as Basinski exclaimed, “Well, damn it, if the time ain’t right now, it never will be! Let’s do this!”