Coincidence or not, we seem to hear the influence of an Inflo (SAULT) in the aesthetic touch of Gateway Experience, the third album by Toronto singer-songwriter Witch Prophet. More frankly hip-hop / trap on DNA Activation (retained among the Polaris finalists in 2020), Ayo Leilani and his wife Sun Sun, director and co-composer, opt here for a much more airy and jazzy production emphasizing acoustic instruments, brass everywhere, the piano simply covered with violins on the ballad I’m scared in the middle of the album, surprising, because it reveals an incredible facet of the work of the rapper and singer R B. The boom bap spirit in the rhythms (except on the excellent Memorycollaboration with the singer Begonia), the soul that oozes from these sung refrains, with sweetness when it comes to love, with tension when Witch Prophet evokes his bouts of insomnia and the daydreams that would be the lot of his daily life .
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