℗ 2021 Esperanza Spalding Productions., Under exclusive license to Concord Records
| Released | September 24, 2021 |
| Duration | 1h 00m 43s |
| Record Label | Concord Records |
| Catalogue No. | CRE01839 |
| Genre | Jazz |
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1.1
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Formwela 1
Esperanza Spalding |
3:35 | |||
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1.2
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Formwela 2 (feat. Ganavya)
Esperanza Spalding; Ganavya |
6:10 | |||
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1.3
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Formwela 3
Esperanza Spalding |
7:03 | |||
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1.4
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Formwela 4
Esperanza Spalding |
4:18 | |||
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1.5
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Formwela 5 (feat. Corey King)
Esperanza Spalding; Corey King |
3:33 | |||
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1.6
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Formwela 6 (feat. Corey King)
Esperanza Spalding; Corey King |
3:08 | |||
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1.7
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Formwela 7
Esperanza Spalding |
3:26 | |||
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1.8
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Formwela 8
Esperanza Spalding |
11:39 | |||
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1.9
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Formwela 9
Esperanza Spalding |
4:31 | |||
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1.10
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Formwela 10
Esperanza Spalding |
3:28 | |||
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1.11
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Formwela 11
Esperanza Spalding |
3:08 | |||
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1.12
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Formwela 13
Esperanza Spalding |
6:44 |
Grammy Award WINNER, 2022 – Best Jazz Vocal Album
Esperanza Spalding's new album Songwrights Apothecary Lab explores how songwriters may incorporate knowledge in consultation with practitioners of music therapy, neuroscience and more to create music that can have a specific effect on the listener. These 12 new songs were created and recorded with different musicians in her traveling lab over the past several months, and follows her Grammy Award-winning album from 2019, 12 Little Spells.
Songwrights Apothecary Lab (a.k.a. S.A.L.) seeks to respectfully dip into the healing seas of music/musicianship/song, and distill a few grains of piquancy which carry the life-renewing flavor of the unfathomable ocean of human resiliency, then work those grains into new musical formwelas, to enhance the healing flavors and intentions innate in all works of devoted creatorship.
All Formwelas (songs) from the S.A.L. are created through our research, divination, intuition, musicianship, taste, inspiration, and collaborative effort to design songs that enhance a specific salutary affect. The formwelas offered here are not presented as potential “solutions”. Rather, they are responses to the ongoing question guiding the beings collaborating within the Songwrights Apothecary Lab.
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Concord Records Studio Masters
Tracks 4-12 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 48 kHz / 24-bit
Tracks 4-12 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 48 kHz / 24-bit
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.28 -2.20 to -1.20 | -15.69 -18.10 to -14.07 | -12.78 -15.30 to -10.80 | 8 6 to 10 | |
| 1 | Formwela 1 | -1.20 | -18.10 | -15.3 | 10 |
| 2 | Formwela 2 (feat. Ganavya) | -1.20 | -16.44 | -14.0 | 9 |
| 3 | Formwela 3 | -1.20 | -15.59 | -12.3 | 8 |
| 4 | Formwela 4 | -1.20 | -15.87 | -13.1 | 10 |
| 5 | Formwela 5 (feat. Corey King) | -1.20 | -14.19 | -11.3 | 8 |
| 6 | Formwela 6 (feat. Corey King) | -1.20 | -14.07 | -12.0 | 8 |
| 7 | Formwela 7 | -1.20 | -17.23 | -10.8 | 6 |
| 8 | Formwela 8 | -1.20 | -14.32 | -12.4 | 8 |
| 9 | Formwela 9 | -1.20 | -15.05 | -12.4 | 8 |
| 10 | Formwela 10 | -1.20 | -15.87 | -13.3 | 9 |
| 11 | Formwela 11 | -2.20 | -15.64 | -12.8 | 8 |
| 12 | Formwela 13 | -1.20 | -15.85 | -13.7 | 9 |