Everliving

The second solo outing from Steve Cobby was a lengthy collection of ever-inventive, genre-melding instrumental electronic/organic/sample/sequenced tracks, a mix of contemporary jazz funk, modern boogie, future beatology fusion and more. It’s impressive that he’s able to continually surprise, confound and delight throughout its 14 song, 90+ minutes running time, but Cobby seems to possess some kind of bottomless musical imagination. With tracks where every single part performs its role perfectly, either wonderfully distinct from the others, or precisely shaped and blended-in to work as part of a whole, Cobby then decorates his sonic world with pretty melodies, moody backdrops, playful sonics, and textures that are somehow redolent of other genres, different moods, and alternative places; Everliving is a transportive album.