Then, all the sudden, this 12 Little Spells idea just started taking shape in my imagination all quick-like… and made various parts of my body tingle: hands, legs, solar-plexus, ears, feet, arms… (no I don’t use drugs)… This tingling had a kind of healing sensation, and I wondered:

Esperanza Spalding has announced an audacious new project called ‘12 Little Spells’ that finds Spalding conjuring in the medium of musical creation, through an exploration of the body, human energy and healing. Coming off her inventive 2016 album Emily's D+Evolution, singer/bassist Esperanza Spalding offers another highly conceptualized production with 2019's kaleidoscopically tactile 12 Little Spells.Where Spalding's previous work was built around a central character, here she offers 12 songs each explicitly inspired by a separate body part, such as the mouth, eyes, fingers, and … Editorial Reviews. 12 Little Spells is what happens when the course set with Emily D Evolution leaves the ground and navigates into the stratosphere. Last updated on Jul 9, 2019 physical album out May 10th, with four new delicious spells...mmm! Its gloriously off the wall yet nevers feels deliberately so. Sometimes it sounds like Joni Mitchell meets Rotary Connection meets Peter Gabriel era Genesis to give some sort of clue. “12 Little Spells” (Thoracic Spine) grounded sensation of perpetual connection with the immensity of the external world.