Gemini Rights Steve Lacy

• 1 Static 02:37
• 2 Helmet 03:22
• 3 Mercury 04:58
• 4 Buttons 03:01
• 5 Bad Habit 03:52
• 6 2gether (Enterlude) 00:50
• 7 Cody Freestyle 04:00
• 8 Amber 02:54
• 9 Sunshine 04:53
• 10 Give You the World 04:34
• Total Runtime 35:01

Info zu Gemini Rights

Steve Lacy has announced, his new album Gemini Rights, will drop on July 15, 2022 on RCA Records. Along with the news, the multi-artist has shared new single “Bad Habit”. Gemini Rights was written, produced, and mostly played by Lacy.

“My whole philosophy on music is, well, one, get in, get out. I don’t want to take people’s lives. I want them to make a decision to want to keep playing it again. I try my best to make my music to where you want to do that again. I produced about 90% of the record, still. I tried to be like, ‘Oh, I need an executive producer, da, da, da.’ But I ended up still doing it.” (Steve Lacy)

Lacy has collaborated with multiple artists, including producing a track on Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN (“Pride”) on his iPhone. His list of collaborators is a who’s who of game changing artists, all of whom look to Lacy to bring his signature brand of cool to their sonic table: people like Tyler the Creator, Solange, J.Cole, Vampire Weekend, Dirty Projectors, Kali Uchis, Thundercat, and Mac Miller, not to mention his guitar, bass, songwriting, and production with his bandmates THE INTERNET. His song “Dark Red,” which he literally made on his iPhone, just went platinum a few months ago as well.

Like Lacy himself, the record is described “as an amalgamation of references and influences – everything from Caetono Veloso to Andre 3000’s The Love Below to the Beatles to Sly Stone to his friends/band mates in THE INTERNET and much more. Processing his first real heartbreak of his early 20s, with some songs calling out his ex (see: the first lines of album opener “Static” – “Baby you got somethin’ in your nose / sniffin’ that K, did you fill the hole?”) to others fully lamenting the loss (“Buttons”) and bouncing back with indignance (“Sunshine” featuring glorious vocals by Fousheé) and more”.

“After years as a side player, Gemini Rights (the follow-up to his 2019 debut album Apollo XXI) is a full- fledged declaration of identity made in the spotlight — an opportunity for listeners to further hear what’s entranced and impressed all of his collaborators in those private rooms.” – GQ HYPE

“Lacy is an accomplished producer and writer who has lent his talents to everyone from Vampire Weekend and Kendrick Lamar to Mac Miller and Solange. These artists come to Lacy for a particular blend of genre-defying and densely textured songs that feel like they’re from a different era yet entirely current.” - HIGHSNOBIETY

“Mercury” is a total trip — a five-minute odyssey of bossa nova, psych-rock, R&B and electropop tied together into one gloriously Frankenstein’d pop song. Listening to this song feels a little like tumbling down a never-ending rabbit hole, in the best way possible.” – PAPER

“As refreshing as a spiked pineapple soda on the hottest day of the year, "Mercury" is a lovingly crafted tribute to the Brazilian bossanova of yesteryear with the modern flourishes you'd expect from an iconoclast like Lacy.” – THE FADER

Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy
was the first, after Sydney Bechet, to devote himself solely to the soprano saxophone. Through its flexibility, richness of tone and swing, he gave the instrument a new lease of life and inspired John Coltrane to start playing it.

Steven Norman Lackritz was born in 1934 in New York. As a teenager, he photographed musicians to sell their portraits at concerts. It was on this occasion that he met the man who introduced him to jazz: musician and conductor Cecil Scott.

In the early 1950s, he became a professional musician, playing clarinet and saxophone in clubs, while studying at the Schilliger House of Music in Boston and then at the Manhattan School of Music. His meeting with pianist Cecil Taylor in 1953 truly launched his career. Taylor introduced him to the music of Thelonious Monk, who would be his main source of inspiration and whom he would play throughout his life.

He quickly specialized in the soprano saxophone and became its major figure. While he is Cecil Taylor's main partner, he also plays with Roswell Bud, Gil Evans, and Thelonious Monk, his mentor.

In the 1960s, after having participated in the rise of free jazz with Ornette Coleman, he moved to Europe and became one of its main representatives. A musician considered as a soloist, he plays and records a lot in solo (his own compositions and those of Monk), but also in duo or with his band.

Steve Lacy died in 2004 in Boston. He had returned to the United States three years earlier to teach at the New England Conservatory. A leading figure in free jazz and soprano saxophone, he was a source of inspiration for many saxophonists, including John Coltrane.

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