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ALBUM REVIEW FROM OUR FRIENDS AT Kalporz 
AUTHORED BY MONICA MAZZOLI TRANSLATED BY DOMINIC VALVONA

Continuing our successful collaboration and synergy with the leading Italian music publication Kalporz , the Monolith Cocktail shares and translates reviews, interviews and other bits from our respective sites each month. This month, and with a new facelift overhaul of the site (which we love by the way) Monica Mazzoli introduces us to producer and multi-instrumentalist Will Miller’s latest project Les Sons Du Cosmos.

Les Sons Du Cosmos: “the sounds of the cosmos” in Italian. A challenging name for the new group from producer and multi-instrumentalist Will Miller, already the mind behind the soul-jazz project (and much more) Resavoir, a member of Whitney (from 2015 to today always balanced between folk/country/soft pop) and a musician at the service of such notable names as A$AP Rocky (listen to “Back Home” in “At. Long. Last. A$AP”), Mac Miller (his trumpet on “Two Matches” in “GO:OD AM”) and SZA (keyboards, production and co-author of “Blind” in “SOS”).

COOLIDGE and LAUNDRY, the only two tracks under the name Les Sons Du Cosmos released thus far, are the result of a session from September 2023 by Will Miller with Eddie Burns (who already appears on a number of tracks on the latest Resavoir album) and William Corduroy. Miller & Co.’s studio in Little Village – a neighbourhood of Chicago – is the birthplace of two productions that never run idle, and move the coordinates of the Windy City jazz scene – as happens more and more often – into broader sound territories: the first single, released in August 2024, is the perfect combination of groove and flow, and features Semiratruth’s rapping on a track full of soul-funk-jazz textures; the second piece, also featuring Semiratruth, this time on the stylophone, is a two-minute instrumental with an enveloping rhythmic interweaving of cinematic/library (music) flavours.

Author: Monica Mazzoli