Black Magic

Jose James' new album Black Magic has finally dropped.
A certain music journalist from Sydney (who shall remain nameless) wrote about how Jose james was a jazz alias of Flyin Lotus. With Flyin Lotus being related to Alice Coltrane this intrigued me enough to go out and find it.
Although it became obvious at once that Jose James and Flyin Lotus are obviously two separate people (Well Duh) the album blew me away with its mix of spoken word, jazz poetry and some serious skills on the piano, and became one of my favourite albums of 08.
Moving on and two years later we finally get some new work from Jose and funnily enough Fly Lo produces several tracks on it alongside Moodymann and Mistu The Beats. The music is more on a new soul/beat tip than the jazz workings of the first album, and Jose displays a more mature approach this time around both with his vocals and production.
Only time will tell if this remains on my playlist as long as The Dreamer but you really need this album in your collection.
Check out Electro Magnetic which is a bonus track on the japanese release.