There’s an attention-grabbing point at the four-and-a-half-minute mark of ‘High’, one of the highlights off Anané Martins-Vega’s ‘Take A Ride’, her new six-track release on the venerable New York label Nervous. A sultry cover of a minor 1980 hit by Skyy, the tune, up to that point, had been defined by sophisticated disco-funk guitar, an unfeasibly lush aura, and Anané’s breathy vocals — “Music’s making me high, high, high” — but at that moment the filigree drops away, leading to a brief break consisting of a minimalist bounce-skate groove and rubbery bass. It’s subtle yet spine-tingling, an invitation to dancefloor heaven in an EP full of them.
“It’s something that I feel is not being made like that anymore,” Anané says of ‘Take A Ride’, produced by Two Soul Fusion, otherwise known as Blaze’s Josh Milan and Anané’s husband, Louie Vega. “It’s very easy to create tracks, put them out, here today, gone tomorrow. Whereas when we make music, it’s truly telling a story. There’s a whole life that goes into it. There’s lots of expressions and emotions and sentiments and history and feelings, and we wanted to put all of that into this project.”
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