"Will Fill Your Soul": Grammy Award Winner Jon Batiste Releases New Concept Album 'World Music Radio'
Jon Batiste has just released his new album World Music Radio, and we are ALL about it!
As the first track on the album promises, World Music Radio, "is an experience." August 18th seems to be THE day for album releases, and we are not mad about it. Jon Batiste is joining the litany of artists that have released new works on this day, dropping his newest album, World Music Radio. The album continues on Batiste's quest to share love and positivity to all. In an interview with the New York Times he expressed:
"It's radical today to love everybody. We are in a time that there's more of a pressure to make people into the other, and to dehumanize them in the process. But the act of removing a certain baseline of humanity in how we approach living amongst each other, that should be radical. That should be the thing that is disruptive."
This mission is captured in the expansive nature of the tracks and the electrifying, joyful drive that persists through each track. It is highly reflective of the state of mind that Batiste was in when creating the work. In an Instagram post he shared:
"World Music Radio is a concept album that takes place in the interstellar regions of the universe. The listener is led through the album by an interstellar traveling griot named Billy Bob Bo Bob, who takes you sonically all around the world at the speed of light. I created this album with a feeling of liberation in my life and a renewed sense of exploration of my personhood, my craft and of the world around me unlike anything I ever felt before.
"This new album will fill your soul, open your heart and stretch your mind while expanding your vision of popular art. We really wanted to re-examine and redefine terms like world music as they exist in the culture...(more on the later) A range of collaborations in locations all across the globe made this vision a reality. There was a lot of joy in making this and it definitely translates to the listening experience, and now to you. Exec produced this with my friends Jon Bellion and Ryan Lynn. More surprises to come so stay tuned. Welcome to World Music Radio."
This album comes just a year after Batiste's incredible wins at last year's 2022 Grammy Awards. For his album We Are, the incredible artist was nominated for 11 awards and took home 5 including the highly-sought after Album of the Year.
We cannot wait to delight our days with World Music Radio.
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