Album Review/ Instrumental : Sons of the Mellow Mafia’s Self Titled Collection

Sons of the Mellow Mafia have just debuted with their self-titled album. The eleven song collection crafts a luminous ambience with jazz, blues and other expressive instrumental styles. It is a sunny spread, playful and full of fresh characters that you can just explore with the mind. Melodies sunbathing, frolicking in the water, dancing in the wind. It has that summery quartet feel. If you’re hosting a summer party, or a spring fest, then this collection is sure to elevate the atmosphere and spirit. It is effortlessly light, creative, and crafty. Listen Now! 

‘Buck Jones’ opens the album, setting the scene with its plush instrumental textures, sharp tones, and animated scenes. The ambience ties them all together, sustaining it to fill the sky. You get this warm-toned, levelled flow, and feel-good soundscape with tracks like ‘Limestone Jesus’ and ‘Seafarer (for Carla)’. 

If you want deep, expressive flows, then you’ll find yourself contemplating in rainy weather in ‘Breonna’. Within its sharp, wowing harmonica notes, you can grow soft and dreamy. ‘Shade from Burned Oaks’ is a bass flow, sublime in its simplicity and low tonal notes. ‘Uncle Funny Plays with the Bass’ incorporates some classic European influences, within expressive summer tones. There is that freshness in the melodies, a promise in the air, and a floating camaraderie. 

In ‘Agent of Change’, we get a solemn atmosphere. With its slow-inching sound, the instrumental illuminates the underbelly of change, its inevitability and its current. ‘October 9th’ is a whisper of a composition, its melodies floating feathers in the room, so light and soft, gossamer. A song that can effortlessly get out of feeling heavy. Lastly, ‘Komorebi’, a track that grows, winds, and surrounds like a vine. Fun to just sit back and watch the progression. Listen Now! 

The album is available for streaming on popular sites like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and Amazon Music! 

You can listen to ‘Sons of the Mellow Mafia’ here -