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Nicholas Payton’s digital EP “Smoke\u00a0Sessions [Remixed]” features four of the acclaimed tracks from his all-acoustic album with Ron Carter, Karriem Riggins, and special guest George Coleman in genre-blending remixes by Riggins and Tomoki Sanders with special guest Isaiah Sharkey.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The incredible multi-instrumentalist\u00a0Nicholas Payton\u00a0realized\u00a0a long-cherished dream to record with icons\u00a0Ron Carter\u00a0and\u00a0George Coleman, abetted by his longtime-collaborator\u00a0Karriem Riggins\u00a0on his\u00a0recent album,\u00a0Smoke Sessions,<\/em><\/strong> which he released in October 2020.<\/p>\n

But Payton, it turns out, also had more transformative intentions in mind for this acclaimed\u00a0session. On a\u00a0new digital only EP Smoke Sessions [Remixed]<\/em><\/strong>, he turns over the raw material of four of the album\u2019s tracks to Riggins and the rising star multi-instrumentalist producer Tomoki Sanders to create remixed versions of the tunes refracted through the lens of the hip hop generation.<\/p>\n

This post-modern hybrid approach to what others may view as disparate genres is central to much of Payton\u2019s discography, so it certainly makes sense that he would hear the potential for such electronic reimagining in the music he recorded with Carter and Riggins. \u201cMany of my projects have a remix component built into them already,\u201d he explains. \u201cI felt giving those types of production treatments to an all-live acoustic session would speak more to the times in which we live. It gives the folks a bit of both worlds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Riggins, also the drummer for the album, puts on his producer hat for three of the four tracks on the remix EP. It\u2019s a role he\u2019s as comfortable playing as the one he essays behind the drumkit \u2013 he\u2019s done production work for many of hip hop\u2019s most creative artists, including Common, The Roots, Erykah Badu and Kanye West.\u00a0\u201cProduction and mixing [are] a significant part of Karriem\u2019s body of work,\u201d Payton says. \u201cI hired him as the drummer on the session with this in mind.\u201d\u00a0For his part, Riggins refers to Payton as, \u201cone of those geniuses\u2026 He set the bar high and it\u2019s always super inspirational being around him and playing music with him.”<\/p>\n

The EP\u2019s fourth track is another case of ricocheting inspiration. The young, uncategorizable multi-instrumentalist Tomoki Sanders, who Payton calls, \u201cone of my favorite up and coming musician\/producers,\u201d provided a beat that helped inspire the original version of \u201cHangin\u2019 In and Jivin\u2019;\u201d his remix amplifies and reconstructs the muscular groove at the heart of the tune.<\/p>\n

While he insists that, \u201cit\u2019s never my intent to decide what anyone gets from my music,\u201d Payton does hope that Smoke Sessions [Remixed]<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0helps cement in listener\u2019s minds his notion that all music co-exists in a continuum, and that genre classifications are inherently limiting. It\u2019s an argument that on these four tracks he makes through the most enticing and infectious of means.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope it highlights there\u2019s not such a disparity between more traditional styles and current ones,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s all just music.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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