Okzat-Ozkat - Sunday Coffee (2025) [Hi-Res]

Sunday Coffee is a spiritual experience that will leave you shook, yet full at the same time. The album is tethered by the rhythm section and heartbeat of Alexander Thomas on drums and Chris Frank (Frank Irwin Quintet) on both upright and electric bass, yet unfastened by saxophonist Reed Wallsmith (Blue Cranes), the saturated keyboards of Andre Raiah (Brown Calculus), and MPC genius / electronic hardware wizard MLTZR.

Invocation is your invitation into their musical world – a call to something beyond you. It is ethereal in its arrival, evocative in its shape and landing. Wallsmith’s melodies are especially haunting as they weave in and around the MLTZR and Raiah’s shimmering curtain of chords.

Disguised in a soft and fluffy exterior, Coffee Clouds floats like a bossa nova before morphing into a challenging aural information overload. It gets your heart pumping with anticipation for where the tune is going, just as the waves of caffeine begin to rear their head again.

Floating Up River is a reprieve from the chaos of Coffee Clouds. The breath and space created by Wallsmith and Frank, whose melodic exploration is transcendent, gives the listener time for reflection before the low end pulls you back into the spaceship and on to the next vision.

Double Jointed – it’s in the name. It’s not that this group has extra joints, they simply execute in a way that feels like they can move beyond what’s expected. Just when you think you understand how this thing operates, Thomas drops a new tempo – locking listeners into a fierce head bob. The album ends as the show ended, with a gripping piano/ synth duet – with Raiah wringing all manner of emotions out of the house grand piano.

Sunday Coffee is a conversation. These musicians use their ears and instincts to give each other space when necessary, while acting on raw emotion to shift the narrative and connect to one another through their individual and shared experience/perspectives. Sunday Coffee is community. It’s a debut that will leave you eager to pick up the band’s next transmission.

– Dan Cable
August 2025

Tracklist:
1-1 Okzat-Ozkat - Invocation [4:48]
1-2 Okzat-Ozkat - Coffee Clouds [6:04]
1-3 Okzat-Ozkat - Floating Up River [5:00]
1-4 Okzat-Ozkat - Double Jointed [8:32]