One listen. This one threw me off a bit and I got stuck on what was happening with the beat, but never really getting into describing it. I think that harmed the writing overall.

Jon Batiste, Chad Smith & Bill Laswell’s “Spiral” is from The Process.

I hope you enjoy.

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Percussion pulses and and rolls. It seems slow, almost relaxed. Then a sound leads to its tightening. Buzzing in here, and little beeps. And then the space opens. The percussion remains tight, striking softly among low waves of eerie calm.

Back to the main melody and that percussion remains unrelentingly committed to creating pulses of sound among a continual percussive flow. Bits and pieces sound out here and there, around the driving beat. And soon the space opens once more, and everything rises and rises before once more settling to the main rhythm.

Driving, continuous, steady. Reliable, and questions and mystery here and there, and then the open space again. And it’s changed, and maybe it changed last time, but it seems to show something. An image, a scene forming, a coolness. It’s a fragment.

More questions, more mystery. More pulse, driving forward, pushing onward, pushing hard. Pushing further and further before that space returns with a different view, almost carrying, almost sending somewhere else, somewhere further along. It’s calm, mysterious. It’s revealing, but it reveals little, and it moves toward a point. Intensity builds with minimal instrumentation, and it rises and rises until the final beat, a brief dissipation and the song ends.