Change The Wind

Description

Grammy Award winner in 2021 for his work alongside Esperanza Spalding, composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Corey King has become one of the most versatile voices in contemporary music. His journey has taken him from Milton Nascimento to Gil Scott-Heron, from Bonobo to DJ Premier, and Iggy Pop, shaping a sound that flows freely between jazz, soul, cinematic composition, and experimentation. With Change the Wind, King concentrates all this breadth into a personal and heartfelt statement. Written over several years of upheaval and transition, the album alternates between intimacy and expansiveness, quiet reflection and expansive group arrangements. Resilience, clarity, emotional recalibration: themes that run through the record with the coherence of something lived rather than conceptualized. At the center of it all is a luminous piece titled "R.M.K," inspired by the birth of King's daughter, which emotionally anchors the album and sets the tone: care, responsibility, fragility of connection. Musically, the record is rich without being dense — warm piano, layered vocals, chamber brass, broken-beat rhythms, and subtle electronic textures, with passages of Afrobeat influence and more bare, intimate spaces. Spalding and trumpeter Takuya Kuroda contribute without ever weighing down the whole. Change the Wind reveals itself as a complete listening experience, unfolding slowly and rewarding attention. An album about quiet transformation, about clarity found in movement.