Pops Magellan - Deep Thoughts (Self Release) [Jazz Fusion]

The Slow Music Movement
3 days ago
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The cover for Pops Magellan's Deep Thoughts single, showing her iwith pink uplighting, in front of shimmering disco ball background with a sunflower pattern stripe in the middle of it. Zebra-striped object in the foreground. It's pretty kitsch and garish.

Poliana "Pops Magellan" is a Brazilian bass player, composer and producer now based in Los Angeles, and who has cemented quite the reputation for fusing the myriad rhythms of her home land with funk, rock, R&B and jazz. Along the way she's played with the likes of Avril Lavigne and Travis Barker so she's not messing about and earned the respect of her peers. She's also started doing her own thing and has got an EP on the way featuring some serious collaborators from the L.A. scene.

Pops Magellan with curly red hair and nose ring against a purple background, displaying a confident expression under vibrant lighting.

Released last year "Deep Thoughts" is part of Magellan's 2024/2025 singles tease in the run up to, remarkably for some someone who has been about for so long, her debut release, and it's one of those deliciously genre ambiguous tracks that I'm so drawn to.

Kicking off with some easy picking the tune suddenly comes to life with assistance from the tight drums of Noa Kahn, and judging by how Magellan weaves her bass playing through the snappy percussive skeleton it doesn't sound like the fist time they've played together. If that wasn't enough the Taylor Graves lends his keyboard virtuoisity, creating a swirling, whirling synth vortex for the leftfield leaning, 80s vibing, soundtrack nodding jazz fusion to evolve; the energy levels and cosmic vibes undulating as Magellan and Kahn effortlessly alternate between toe tapping and liquid drum and bass ryhthms like it's the most natural thing in the world. If you need a Monday motivator or momentary planetary escape then hit play without delay.