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Pino Palladino, Blake Mills

Notes With Attachments

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1 Just Wrong  
2 Soundwalk  
3 Ekute  
4 Notes With Attachments  
5 Djurkel  
6 Chris Dave  
7 Man From Molise  
8 Off The Cuff  
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Notes With Attachments, the new album from renowned bassist Pino Palladino and celebrated multi-instrumentalist and producer Blake Mills, is set for release March 12 via New Deal / Impulse!. Initially conceived as a solo record for Palladino, Notes With Attachments quickly evolved into a fully collaborative work centered around the two artists' love for experimentation.

"With a song like this, built in layers, at various points along the road you look around and go: what is this? Where is the composition? Sometimes you end up drawing the blueprints of the house after it's fully been built," says Mills about "Just Wrong." That process touches every song on the record, which typically began with Palladino's own melodic and rhythmic language and developed outward with references shared by the two musicians from West African and Cuban music, funk, jazz, and English folk. 

Initially conceived as a solo record for Palladino, Notes With Attachments quickly evolved into a fully collaborative work centered around the two artists' love for experimentation. "Ekuté" follows debut single "Just Wrong," which Stereogum praised as "a warm, hazy jazz instrumental that takes its time and gives Palladino's bass plenty of room to move" and Aquarium Drunkard called "the sort of song that tempts you to restart it before it even finishes," along with live recordings of "Just Wrong" and "Man from Molise."

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  • Jon Batiste, Sons Of Kemet, Melanie Charles, Alice Coltrane, Pino Palladino - Blake Mills make WPKNs 2021 Favourite Picks
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  • Pino Palladino & Blake Mills - Notes With Attachments makes Treble: best jazz albums of 2021
    Posted At: December 13, 2021 12:00 AM
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  • Pino Palladino + Blake Mills play NPR: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
    Posted At: June 17, 2021 12:00 AM

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  • Seductive psychedelia and funk coexist on Pino Palladino - Blake Mills 'Notes With Attachments' / jazz & blues report
    Posted At: May 19, 2021 12:00 AM

    jazz & blues report's Duane Verh writes.....Ethereal and urban realms intersect, collide and layer over one another during a constantly morphing and thoroughly atmospheric set courtesy of the well-travelled and Grammy-winning bassist Palladino and producer/guitarist Mills. Seductive psychedelia and funk coexist through a string of compositions, while contributed by various members of the ens...
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  • Pino Palladino & Blake Mills have created a weird but wonderful mix of sounds and flavors for 'Notes with Attachments' / CD Hotlist
    Posted At: May 3, 2021 12:00 AM

    CD Hotlist - Rick Anderson writes.......With this album, bassist Pino Palladino and multi-instrumentalist/producer Blake Mills have created a weird but wonderful mix of sounds and flavors, resulting in something that is explicitly jazz-adjacent but hardly jazz. Billed as "both a producers' album and a players' album," it germinated from snippets of musical ideas that Palladino sent to Mills for h...
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    Posted At: April 23, 2021 12:00 AM

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  • The ethereal experience of listening to 'Notes with Attachments' / Washington Square News
    Posted At: April 15, 2021 12:00 AM

    Washington Square News - Ethan Saffold writes.....Blake Mills and Pino Palladino, an unlikely duo, are creating an album distinct from their past endeavors. The two veterans in the pop music industry, are from different generations and with different career paths, but their collaboration "Notes With Attachments" forges an entirely new path. "Notes With Attachments" is not a record that I would put on...
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  • Pino Palladino, Blake Mills - 'Just Wrong' from Notes With Attachments makes MusicSavage - #HotTakes
    Posted At: January 29, 2021 12:00 AM

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