- Half-time electronic soul for the mind.
- Catch this: Eki Shola, "Eh-key sounds like Becky without the B, Show-lah" according to her site, is a London-born, Bay Area-based musician, singer, poet and physician. As evidenced by her most recent long-player, Essential, she's all for the healing, righteousness and importance of the Black Lives Matter movement. But sometimes that leftfield alchemy is strictly about moving textures that connect musicians. "Jubilee" is that half-time, mind-massaging, afterhours vibe that Shola and Yehu Salah create when all the righteousness has gone home for the day and working through a mood, in order to get the feeling right, is what gets it done.
"Jubilee" is thick with it. These murky beats and bass could easily thump through your chest, but their purpose is for appeasement. It gets heady. Kick drums go erratically off pattern, but still hit calmly, on time. Nothing here is performative or glitzy. Shola has downshifted the positivity into a trance-like bass-bin chamber you'd pay rent to hang in.
As she states in the credits, "When you lose your music including all your stems in the 2017 wildfires and you come across a musical gem among your saved emails—you realize how making music doesn't have to be temporal nor perfect in its process. It's all about the vibe and how it makes you feel." "Jubilee" achieves just that.