Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger - Force Majeure. LP
Black vinyl LP inside a heavyweight matte jacket, with IARC obi strip and dome, patterned inner-sleeve.
160-gram, pressed by Smashed Plastic in Chicago
Douglas & Younger are long-time companions in life and music. The two East Coast natives met early in life and have accompanied each other, personally and professionally, through equally prolific careers. “Brandee and I met in college, University of Hartford, Hartt School of Music, back in 2001,” remembers Douglas. “Her practice room was across the hall from mine. We began a friendship instantly through music and Black culture. We would jam a lot in college when she wanted to practice ‘Jazz.’
She was a Classical Harp and Music Business double major and she was heavily influenced by Jazz and Black Music so I sort of became an outlet for her to walk on the wild side in the eyes of University and Classical politics.” To this day, Douglas and Younger often accompany each other in the ensembles they lead, respectively. The two have played together in the Ravi Coltrane Quartet, with The Baylor Project, and in sessions for Makaya McCraven’s 2018 release Universal Beings, on which they are both featured artists. Force Majeure is their first release as a duo.
All music arranged by Brandee Younger & Dezron Douglas;
except "Inshallah" arranged by Dezron Douglas.
Dezron Douglas - double bass, bass guitar, voice
Brandee Younger - harp, voice
Recorded between March and June 2020, at Dezron & Brandee's apartment in Harlem, New York.
