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Rider Shafique (punchline), with
Jan Wagner taking care of music production, engineering, and mixing duties.
The Aint About Me ensemble create an unusual and entrancing stylistic hybrid, melding atmospheric ambient music with jazz and symphonic/classical music accents and a gentle flow of deeply contemplative, trip-hop-derived spoken word.
The vibe is relaxing and restless all at once; soothing and calm on the surface, but searching and urgent underneath.
“I could tell my story in a thousand and one ways / and none of them would be the same / but all of them would be true…” – “let’s kiss and forget”
Each composition is an exploration of the thought process through time, finding meaning in daily life (“writing words is like throwing stones at the sun”), relationships with others (“watch my hand move as I pocket the blues you see nothing”), and the inner psyche (“happiness is a long equation”).