Braying out yesterday’s future jazz from the heart of Los Angeles, Joy Guerrilla mingles analog production with instrumental affluence, fermenting their experiments across several multifaceted albums. Magda Daniec and Adam Grab form the brain trust of Joy Guerrilla’s compositions, collaborating with a growing rap sheet of contemporary musicians to flesh out and stake claim to their sonic territory. Their latest release, The Park Is Closed, features eight collaborating musicians across numerous disciplines, showcasing a full spectrum array of progressive jazz and tropicalia-inspired tracks that slide effortlessly into the Joy Guerrilla catalog.

Though the album finds healthy support from its inclusion of various session musicians, it is Daniec and Grab’s personal skillset that lays down the true groundwork for The Park Is Closed. With Daniec manning the melodies across ten keyboards and synthesizers, and Grab serving up pocketed grooves through string basses, lead guitars, and a variety of percussion, this dynamic duo sets the stage for an instrumental dialogue that plays like a sunset vignette over LA’s sprawling highways. Be it a slow walk through subtle bpm’s and cradled harmonies, or spurts of drum-and-bass rhythms in between tightly choreographed and syncopated notation, the compositional span of the Joy Guerrilla experience displays a fundamental control over all things in the hemisphere of groove.

The Park Is Closed spares no effort in maintaining a pure experience through rhythm, and it pays off entirely by the time the needle leaves the last track. With three albums in their pocket across the last five years, Joy Guerrilla is steadily cementing their position within the musical landscape of the United States.

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