WHO ASKED? DOMi & JD BECK

• 1 ÉPiPHANiE 02:34
• 2 HAD ENOUGH 03:20
• 3 EXiT 02:53
• 4 SiLHOUETTE 03:31
• 5 GROWiNG OLDER 03:35
• 6 SOME THiNGS NEVER CHANGE 03:51
• 7 RAiN 03:01
• 8 SMALL EYES 03:40
• 9 LOVELY MASQUERADE 02:50
• 10 PUZZLE PiECES 04:15
• 11 PHANTOM THREAD 03:34
• 12 OUT OF SYNC 03:52
• 13 CONCERTiNO (FOR PiANO, DRUMS & ORCHESTRA) 05:04
• 14 CLiMBiNG HiGH 03:33
• 15 ÉPiLOGUE 04:04
• Total Runtime 53:37

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Grammy-nominated jazz duo DOMi & JD Beck are releasing today their sophomore album, "WHO ASKED?".

To date, if you wanted to learn about DOMi & JD BECK—the internet’s most hyped jazz duo—you had to visit their website, click a rat playing saxophone, and read a story about a 12-year-old physicist (DOMi Louna) and a 6-year-old sheep investigator (JD Beck). Let’s fix that. “My philosophy of life is don’t take shit too seriously,” says DOMi Louna, born Domitille Degalle. And that’s fair. But the vibrant world she and her collaborator have given us demands exploration. Their long-awaited debut album—which will be released by Anderson .Paak’s new label APESHIT in partnership with the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records—is an attempt to bottle their goofy, very virtuosic magic. Their music finds both humor and 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 silly circumstances. DOMi Louna was a teen protegé at Berklee by way of the Paris Conservatory; JD, three years 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 both invited to join an ensemble performing at the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) trade show and played in a room full of blaring instrumental demos, surrounded by a chaotic din. They bonded over gauche keyboard effects and mom jokes, and a more audible jam that night sparked interest in working more. Along the ride, DOMi & JD BECK have sat in with Herbie Hancock and backed Thundercat, Ariana Grande, Mac DeMarco, Eric André, and more. They also co-wrote “Skate” on .Paak’s GRAMMY-winning album with Bruno Mars as Silk Sonic.

DOMi & JD BECK

DOMi & JD Beck
are a duo collaboration between keyboardist Domitlle Degalle and drummer James Dennis Beck. Their sound of up-tempo future-sonic jazz meets with hip-hop breakbeats, luscious synth harms, and absolute virtuosity. The duo have become one of the internet’s viral addictions, attracting interest from Thundercat, Will.i.am to Skrillex.

The duo first met at NAMM through their collaborator Sput” a.k.a. Robert Searight II of Snarky Puppy. JD Beck is a 16 year old drummer and producer from Dallas who began his drum career at age 8; and started producing aged 12. A side-man to Jon Bap and Anna Wise, JD also performs with Mono Neon. He is sponsored by Vic Firth.

DOMi is the youngest woman to the world’s top keyboard innovators she is sponsored by Yamaha Synth Artist and Spectrasonics. A piano graduate of National Conservatory of Paris (CNSM), Domi continues her studies in Boston at Berklee College of Music under a full Presidential Scholarship and has performed alongside Robert Glasper, Mac Miller, Thundercat, Louis Cole, Jason Palmer, MonoNeon, Ghost-Note, Justin Brown, Mike Mitchell, Mark Guiliana, to Anomalie.

Celebrated as one of the most exciting young force to the future-sonic-jazz movement, DOMi & JD Beck can be caught live with headline dates internationally and are soon to release their first debut album this 2019.

This album contains no booklet.