DOMi & JD Beck

 To date, if you wanted to learn about DOMi & JD BECK—the internet’s most hyped jazz duo—you had tovisit their website, click a rat playing saxophone, and read a story about a 12-year-old physicist (DOMiLouna) and a 6-year-old sheep investigator (JD Beck). Let’s fix that. “My philosophy of life is don’t takeshit too seriously,” says DOMi Louna, born Domitille Degalle. And that’s fair. But the vibrant world sheand her collaborator have given us demands exploration. Their long-awaited debut album—which willbe released by Anderson .Paak’s new label APESHIT in partnership with the legendary jazz label BlueNote Records—is an attempt to bottle their goofy, very virtuosic magic. Their music finds both humorand greatness in harmonic complexity and rhythmic shiftiness, abruptly adopting and ditching tempos,toying with time signatures, and sneaking extra beats into bridges. The collaboration began under sillycircumstances. DOMi Louna was a teen protegé at Berklee by way of the Paris Conservatory; JD, threeyears her junior, had gigged since grade school around his hometown, Dallas—first in producer Jah-Born’s band where he duetted with MPC beatmakers and DJs spinning Dilla. In 2018, they were bothinvited to join an ensemble performing at the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) tradeshow and played in a room full of blaring instrumental demos, surrounded by a chaotic din. Theybonded over gauche keyboard effects and mom jokes, and a more audible jam that night sparkedinterest in working more. Along the ride, DOMi & JD BECK have sat in with Herbie Hancock and backedThundercat, Ariana Grande, Mac DeMarco, Eric André, and more. They also co-wrote “Skate” on .Paak’sGRAMMY-winning album with Bruno Mars as Silk Sonic.

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