Deon Jamar – Heavennnnnn

Description

Label: Smoke & Mirrors – SANDM04
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Released: May 2025
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Funk, Disco

Tracklist:
A Heavennnnnn (Edit) 15:41
B1 Salvation Steps 6:32
B2 Little James Birthday (Edit)

Notes:
On 'Heavennnnnn', Detroit vocalist and producer Deon Jamar evinces soul salacity like no other, following up his last Altars LP with a three-tracker of shimmering thymic neo soul, tempered by electronic smoothening and fine motor skills from recording to fine-tuning. Again released on the experimental and newly inaugural Black Music label - conceived as an "art exhibit, concert, and party series founded by Deon and Brian Oscar" - these are soul stopovers to contrast the earlier three-parter's drastic Detroit breakdowns. The title track has a Rhodes line to die for, its trembling amplitude constructively interfering with any sense of forestalled time we might've brought to the listening experience beforehand; 'Salvation Steps' and 'Little James Birthday' provide further versatility over understated percussions and G-funk slapping radio leakage. A promising continuation in sound by a label you'd best keep your eye on.
DB 3