Robert Glasper BLACK RADIO RECOVERE

Personnel: Robert Glasper (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards, synthesizer); Casey Benjamin (flute, saxophone, synthesizer, vocoder); Chris Dave (drums, percussion); Mark Colenburg (drums).Recording information: Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY; Threshold Sound, Los Angeles, CA.Robert Glasper's Black Radio received justifiable critical acclaim for its seamless, accessible, groundbreaking blur of jazz, hip-hop, neo-soul, and rock, and achieved a level of marketplace success that even the artist couldn't anticipate. By contrast, Black Radio Recovered: The Remix EP goes boldly into more exploratory terrain. Glasper isn't afraid to get sonic. These six tracks -- five remixes from the album and an unreleased track from the BR sessions -- dig deeper into beats, synthetic soundscapes, samples, and the more outr? regions of the Robert Glasper Experiment's musical world. Things don't sound that weird from the jump, however. First up is 9th Wonder's remix of "Afro Blue," with Phonte's rap complement