With All Due Respect

Traversing with an understated technical assuredness, the ambitious shapes of Steely Dan, the popping lounge funk of McDonald era Doobie Brothers, the sweet mourning of the Stylistics and Delfonics, and the exquisite song-craft and flawless harmonizing of CSNY, Daniel Collas (The Phenomenal Handclap Band), Bart Davenport, and Quinn Luke aka Bing Ji Ling have recorded an absolute darling of an album under the name Incarnations.

They are three friends with enough musical guises, side-projects, collaborations, and production jobs to fill the annual itinerary of your average musician twice over. When three CVs like these get together on a regular basis, it's only logical they speculate and hypothecate on the possibility of an album together. But, how to make those congested diaries synchronize? Bart lives in Oakland and Quinn and Daniel are in New York, all three of them are on tour for the better part of the year.

One sunny day in Madrid, Spain, a plan was hatched and a proposal was made. Lovemonk, a small, eclectic, and affable Spanish label, dangled the carrot that clinched the deal; 'find two weeks between gigs/productions/recordings and head down to this little place we know in Tarifa, Southern Spain'. A family-run studio, in a house 5 minutes from a wild beach and a short ferry ride from the coast of Africa; the perfect ambiance for the fleeting melody and sultry grooves of the Incarnations debut album, "With All Due Respect".

Arriving with bits and bobs of half-songs, grooves, and melodies, Daniel, Quinn, and Bart sketched and improvised their way to the most intensely evocative songs you'll hear here.