To me, when you're in a romantic relationship, every experience feels mutual. Even something as simple as going to the grocery store with your significant other is a shared adventure. Your favorite restaurant becomes "our restaurant," your favorite song becomes "our song," and your favorite movie is "our movie." That's what this song is about - special shared moments and places of togetherness."

Self-described as "blended jazzy pop layered with loose, lighthearted vocals to create a synthesis of sound as classic as it is new." Freedust is a project of love and talent that sparks to life between the tremendous effort and artistry of everyone involved.

Though Freedust is originally the brainchild of Italian composer Daniele Carmosino and Swedish singer Lisa Widmark, but there's been a lot more people involved, as the heart of the band is big and open to many musicians around the world who are eager to participate in the making of uplifting music that can only be described as the epitome of coolness.

If you've never heard Freedust before, I'm sure their sophomore album will more than suffice to turn you on to them for good. The Barcelona-based project operates more like a high-rotation & invite-only orchestra, picking and choosing the most talented and dedicated professional musicians that they can find, and in just about 5 seconds, any of their songs will have you convinced that you're listening to the kind of heavy-duty fusion stuff that the serious melomaniacs dig. Their sound is like a big tent circus where every genre shares the same bloodline. You'll find plenty of Funk, Soul, Jazz, Afrobeat, R&B and Hip-hop, enough to sate any thirst -exotic or otherwise- that you may have.

Freedust's "Take Me There" is a relatively short album, clocking in at 7 songs with the accompanying instrumental-only version -which is, in my opinion, a very obvious invitation for samplers to do their thing and make even more music at their behest, something that seems implicit in the band's very spirit.

"Take Me There" starts in the most impossibly cool way it can, with "Beleedat", a bass-heavy track featuring Puerto Rico-based rapper "Bardo" laying down red-hot bars on top of a hyper-funky tapestry reminiscent of some of the most highly regarded East-Coast albums of the 90s and 2000s- And yes, by this song I'm already sold on to the album, but it somehow fails to prepare me for the magnificence that is to follow.

"Elevate" is, simply put, an insanely powerful track. It's a euphoria-inducing Neo-soul fusion track featuring a march-like snare and stupefying horns that serve only to accentuate the frankly sexy female vocals that drip tantalizingly like Honey off a dipper.

"Fast Life" takes the fusion thing even further, this time stepping further into pop, featuring accents of garage rock here and there for a sharper edge, coming off with the same groovy cross-roads vibes that a lot of the more upbeat and funky songs in Gorillaz' catalog - And that's very high praise coming from a Gorillaz enthusiast like me.

"Breathe In, Breathe out" is the kind of song that you simply know right off the bat is going to be a huge hit. It's just got everything going for it: A Perfectly danceable beat crafted around some sweet guitar licks and horns make the core of its infectious energy, but it's in the happy and upbeat lyrics about centering yourself that the deal is sealed, as you will be immediately invited to sing along to its amazing chorus.

For the titular "Take Me There" we actually have a music video to go along. This song starts in a very different place from the rest of the album, with a bitter-sweet-sounding string part that waltzes along a heartbeat, creating whole lotta expectations begging to be resolved.

The song opens up into a Heart-warming Jazzy tune of exquisite proportions. The track's by far the most inviting and crystalline of the album (no wonder it's named after it). Though it is musical genius in every way, It's definitely the sweet, gentle, and completely mesmerizing vocals of Barcelona-based Peruvian singer Saphie Wells that really tie the whole thing together -The lyrics are special, the music is special, but it is her voice that really makes this track such a memorable and stunning piece of music.

As fantastic as the titular track was, it's undeniable that it does, by its own nature, drive you into a bit of lull, thus, to shake things back into action again, Freedust introduces "Boom, Bang, gone!" by far its most rock & roll track of the lot. I found this particular song even had a few shades of DIsco in its DNA, and I kept expecting a melodramatic violin to take the center stage at any point. Though that wasn't the case, the track still remains extremely memorable for me, one of my favorites.

Where to start with “Something New”? Well, for one, It's the best possible track to close up this amazing album with, I'll say that. Featuring R&B singer Antonia Marquee from the U.S. this track blends a dangerous cocktail of jazz, soul, and of course, R&B for one absolutely killer piece that makes every single second of this album a goosebump-inducing masterpiece the likes of which I was simply not ready for.

What else can I tell you about Freedust's sophomore that I haven't made abundantly clear already? I love it, I love everything about it, even if the album's rather short, I think that's just not a problem this time around because I feel like they managed to pack so much in such a relatively short runtime -that is, if you exclude the instrumental tracks, which then doubles the length of the album. I think it's a defining moment for the project, and after this, people should pretty much be lining up to become a part of their ever-changing line up of collaborators.

Freedust wants to take us to that place that we love

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