What if you could discover a song through Different Eras? Find out with C’batch’s ‘I Guess You Want it This Way’
Paying his heartiest tribute to the legendary Ernest Ranglin, C’batch returns to the masses with a brand new exotic called ‘I Guess You Want it This Way’ and this one is nothing short of a fever dream! A composition that took more than two decades in the making and pays homage to the legendary Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin, this is a heartfelt story that dates back to approximately 26 years. C’batch’s wife, Yvette, who is from Jamaica had long encouraged him to write a reggae song. While an early version of I Guess You Want It This Way came close, it felt like something was still missing. During a trip to Jamaica in the early 2000s, C’batch even paired photographs from the journey with the recording to create a personal slideshow, but the composition remained unfinished in his mind. Discover what happened after with us as we decode this masterpiece!
An enchanting encounter of cinematically divine and welcoming piano notions and the softness and beautiful tropical punch of jazz and reggae, this is a dreamer’s paradise!
Compiling work worth more than two decades of hard work and dedication, we start off this album strong with our first iteration of ‘I Guess You Want It This Way’, which is a harmonic dance between distilled, surreal and mesmerising violins and a smooth, juicy tropical beat. While the thought of both of the things sounds a little intimidating, they surprisingly sound heavenly together. White the story behind the song began 26 years ago when C’batch and his wife took a trip to Jamaica, this reflects on the fact that almost everyone of us, despite having it all figured out in life, can sometimes be consumed by a sense of void, as if something is missing or perhaps something potentially mellows our desire. While this album features a series of iterations with different intensities and pitches, all the tracks carry the same tune but it feels like they wear different fonts. While we experience the smooth jazz sounds somewhere, parts ethereal violin in some and parts hot electric guitar in others, the entire journey feels levitating, and every song has got a distinctive flavor to itself. While my favorite iteration has to clearly be the first one because I’m a sucker for heartwarming violin sounds, I really fell in love with version 5 as well. I can most definitely imagine this song and collective occupying a tiny corner of your mind’s space and never leaving it. Definitely worth checking out.
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