Soulive – Flowers [LP]

Soulive shares their brand new album Flowers-the pioneering modern organ trio’s first full-length album in 15 years. For more than twenty-five years, the Woodstock, New York-formed trio Soulive have carried the flame of the Hammond-organ format for a new generation. Guitarist Eric Krasno, organist Neal Evans, and drummer-producer Alan Evans built their language on feel and economy – three voices locked in, sweat and telepathy with no wasted motion. Soulive never broke up; they just went quiet. Krasno turned to songwriting and production. Neal to arranging and texture. Alan to engineering and sound. “There’s so much more that goes into a recording than the gear,” Alan says. “It’s about the environment – your place in space and time at that moment.” That reconnection took form on Flowers. Tracked at Flki Studios – a century-old former grocery store on Iceland’s north coast – the sessions pulled the trio out of routine and back into focus. Alan had worked there before with

MonoNeon and Oteil Burbridge, drawn to the light and the solitude.

Tracks

1 XL
2 Baby Jupiter
3 Flowers at Your Feet (FT. Van Hunt)
4 Kings
5 East Side
6 Basher
7 Butter Rock
8 Vines
9 Pikes Place
10 Window Weather