Midnight Geometry, Shape's upcoming behemoth of a producer album, gathers seasoned emcees from New York, Jersey and beyond to weave stories, speak truths and mouth off over balanced, deliberate scene work. Shape's production spans decades of East Coast hip-hop, mixing gritty street beats and boom bap drums with cinematic world samples and funk loops. The cast of performers offers a range of raw perspectives and moods, while the music that guides them builds momentum, rising and falling to meet each turn. Progressive rock and psychedelia blend into his sound, creating dynamic, epic compositions that feel grounded in the earthiness of storytelling.
Emcees featured on Midnight Geometry include the late Tame One, Teddy Faley, Fatboi Sharif, Duncecap, Lt. Headtrip, GDP, Yung Daddy and many more. Shape has the ability to elicit honesty from his collaborators, whether the truth is heartbreak or joy, substance abuse or profitable peddling, self-confident musings or existential crises. To build Midnight Geometry, Shape offered each accomplice a skeletal song, an incomplete composition. Only after his cohort contributed muscle and blood would Shape rework his nascent creation into a full body. The intricacy and dynamism of his production is as cinematic as the full 57-minute experience of Midnight Geometry, while the specificity of each song's structure and mood allows each track to stand alone, self-contained, and palpable.
We often think of producers as directors, but while Shape worked tirelessly on every moment of this epic LP, his presence is more of an observer in the final product, each arrangement a reaction that fits properly and fully into the storyteller's world.
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