When you listen to Lisa Marie Simmons and Marco Cremaschini’s new record, you realize pretty quickly that this isn’t something that just showed up one day. You can feel the years behind it. The two of them, Simmons as poet and lyricist, Cremaschini at the piano and synths, have constructed something that resists easy categorization. Jazz bleeds into spoken word, electronica moves into hip hop, R&B conversations happen alongside free verse and big cinematic arrangements. It all lands together naturally, and the result feels genuinely alive in a way that…
Lisa Marie Simmons Releases “Notespeak (In a Word)”
