Vernon Reid – Hoodoo Telemetry
Vernon Reid – Hoodoo Telemetry
Format: CD – Vinyl LP – Digital
Label: Mascot Label Group – Artone / The Players Club Records
Release: 2025
Release date: October 3, 2025
If you’ve followed the beats of his half-century career, you’ll know Vernon Reid as an artist who paints in every color. Depending on the era you dive into and the album on your turntable, you’ll find the New York polymath pinballing between jazz, metal, punk, funk, electronica and hip-hop, cutting heads with collaborators as eclectic as Mick Jagger and Public Enemy, endlessly shedding his skin yet always speaking his truth.
Globally celebrated as a giant of electric guitar (he was recently hailed by Rolling Stone amongst the top 50 players of all-time), Reid’s Grammy Award-winning records with alt-rock trailblazers, Living Colour, still sound as fresh and fierce as when Cult Of Personality hijacked the Billboard chart in the late-’80s. But to take the pulse of the zeitgeist as he sees it – and hear his fearless musicality in microcosm – you need only drop the needle on his new solo album.
‘Hoodoo Telemetry’ isn’t a linear piece, but a thrillingly tangled tapestry of genres, collaborators and material from different time periods.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/VernonReid/
Tracks:
01. Door Of No Return
02. Freedom Jazz Dance
03. Good Afternoon Everyone
04. The Haunting
05. Bronx Paradox
06. Or Knot
07. Dying To Live
08. Politician
09. Black Fathom Five
10. Beautiful Bastard
11. Meditation On The Last Time I Saw Arthur Rhames
12. My Little Zulu Babe
13. In Effigy
14. Brave New World