This is not your typical guitar meets sax duo album. Both artists are hard to categorize. Both have released astoundingly rich and versatile albums in the past. Sam Gendel received five paws from Gina for his “DRM” album in 2020 and was praised again for “Cookup” in 2023. Fabiano do Nascimento had us raving with…
You never know what you get with a new Sam Gendel album. “DRM” totally surprised me with its spacy acoustics back in 2020. Here he is again with a set of covers of r&b and soul hits from 1992-2004. Songs by Aaliyah, 112, Ginuwine, Beyoncé, Erykah Badu, and more. The spacy surrounding is still there,…
It was back in March, just days before the Corona lockdown in Germany, when Sam Gendel‘s “Satin Doll” album came out. He totally destroyed a dozen or so standards and put them back together in a hilariously unique, fantastic way. Now he comes up with a space-age sounding follow-up. “DRM”, named after the Electro Harmonix…