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Miles To Go
Billy Paul Williams |
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| CD: KRI-CD-3008 |
| Release Date: 6/10/2003 |
| Price: $12.98 |
Billy Paul Williams is hard to categorize."Miles To Go", his debut album on Kriztal is a testament to the many influences that have shaped his music over the years.
Miles To Go features tasty vocal accents, intricate jazz harmonies and a riot of rhythms that reach from the Caribbean-African diaspora to sweaty South Beach clubs. The seductive, hypnotic music that results will easily appeal to fans already familiar with Kriztal's unique, genre-busting sound, but it will also reach a wider audience as it embraces deliciously eclectic influences such as Herbie Hancock, The Ohio Players, Miles Davis and Billy Preston. But it is Williams' own well-defined voice and emerging signature sound that speaks loudest here, a combination of complex rhythmic themes that lace his sweet, yet edgy compositions.
All 13 tracks on Miles To Go possess great groove, but closer listening reveals a wealth of unexpected ear candy accents such as the kalimba (African thumb piano) on "Nothing To Lose", Bobby McFerrin-inspired wordless vocable scatting on "Winter Heat", the subtle homage to a 70's television show theme on "Desert Moon" or the Donna Summer-ish sweet soul vocals by Charlotte McKinnon on "So In Love".
If you want to stretch your ears beyond the normal chillout drone, treat yourself to "Miles To Go".
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