How do you top a five-time Grammy Award-winning album that had critics applauding its rich blend of R&B, hip-hop, swing, jazz and pop?
“World Music Radio,” out Friday, isn’t just a sonic trip, it’s also a mesmerizing way to dial into Batiste’s eclectic and wide musicality, with songs switching sounds midway and lyrics layered with symbolisms and multiple languages seeping out. Few albums can boast a Duke Ellington vocal clip, the Muslim call to prayer and a Kenny G sax solo.
Water, so vital to the planet and so dangerous to his hometown of New Orleans, is a theme — from the super pop offeaturing Jon Bellion and Fireboy DML — to the exuberant “Raindance” to the restrained, distorted ballad “White Space,” where he sings “Saved in the water/I’m saved.” That’s when an odd muse visited. Batiste had read about an unusual radio signal that some attribute to a being called B4, hence Billy Bob Bo Bob. What “World Music” was missing, he realized, was a DJ. He worked feverishly through the night.
“I try to make it where someone can step in and do their thing without having to understand the greater concept,” he says. “I didn’t tell them. None of the collaborators knew what I was building, but I knew that if I casted them properly, they would shine.”
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