The Big Takeover: Ain't About Me – Ain't About Me
Rider Shafique (punchline), with Jan Wagner taking care of music production, engineering, and mixing duties. The Aint About Me ensemble create an unusual and entrancing stylistic hybrid, melding atmospheric ambient music with jazz and symphonic/classical music accents and a gentle flow of deeply contemplative, trip-hop-derived spoken word. The vibe is relaxing and restless all at once; soothing and calm on the surface, but searching and urgent underneath. “I could tell my story in a thousand and one ways / and none of them would be the same / but all of them would be true…” – “l...