AL-ANDALUS dropped May 7th and the reviews have been consistent: Cookin Soul and Estee Nack have produced one of the more complete collaborative albums of the year in any underground bracket. "More or Less" is the second single, marking the midpoint of the record and serving as a clean demonstration of what makes the album work. Cookin Soul — Valencia-born, Amsterdam-based, Latin Grammy winner, and a prolific producer with a discography that spans Conway the Machine, Tha God Fahim, and a deep collaborative run with Ankhlejohn — brings jazz horns, Latin percussion, and operatic sample fragments into a Boom Bap framework that is simultaneously dusty and dynamic. Estee Nack, a first-generation Dominican-American from Lynn, Massachusetts who has been building credibility through projects with Sadhugold, V Don, Giallo Point, and Conductor Williams before the Nacksaw Jim Duggan Griselda co-sign, operates here with the granular narcotics accounting and operational precision that defines his best work — not drug mythology, just the job. Physical copies available, vinyl announced via Cookin Soul Records.
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