Esperanza Spalding's 2021 album features 12 pieces of music, created and recorded over several months in her traveling laboratory, in collaboration with a host of musicians, researchers and practitioners. Each song was designed to have an intended effect for the listener, from grounding yourself in a moment of chaos and de-escalating interpersonal aggression to addressing the feelings of grief and loneliness brought on by the pandemic. 'The Songwrights Apothecary Lab' is a curated portal of new work that is growing out of Spalding's collaborative practice over the past years, exploring how songwriters might meaningfully incorporate therapeutic practices and knowledge into their process and production. The researchers and practitioners that partook in the labs specialize in fields ranging from neuroscience and music therapy to psychology and ethnomusicology.

Disc 1

Track name

Artist

1.Formwela 1 (Feat. Ganavya Doraiswamy)

Esperanza Spalding

2.Formwela 2

Esperanza Spalding

3.Formwela 3

Esperanza Spalding

4.Formwela 4 (Feat. Corey King)

Esperanza Spalding

5.Formwela 5 (Feat. Corey King)

Esperanza Spalding

6.Formwela 6 (Feat. Corey King)

Esperanza Spalding

7.Formwela 7

Esperanza Spalding

8.Formwela 8

Esperanza Spalding

9.Formwela 9

Esperanza Spalding

10.Formwela 10

Esperanza Spalding

11.Formwela 11

Esperanza Spalding

12.Formwela 13

Esperanza Spalding

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