Standing With The Planets In My Hand

Goya Gumbani & Kiina “Erica”

“Erica” fades in and then fades out, a brief groove that’s like a fragment of a sentence with ellipses on both ends. Kiina’s track is all elegant simplicity – gentle percussion supporting an electric piano riff, loose enough to feel improvised on the spot but sliced and treated just enough to introduce some question as to whether or not that gorgeous keyboard tone is actually sampled from something else. Goya Gumbani’s rap is mellow and introspective, perfectly matched to the tone of the piece but also a little subdued. It’s the rare hip-hop track where it sounds as though the rapper is trying not to upstage the beauty of the track, and so he sort of melts into it.

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