With Above the Clouds, Chicago collective Resavoir continue to blur the lines between jazz, soul, ambient music, and cinematic composition. Led by producer and multi-instrumentalist Will Miller, the music favors atmosphere and melody over virtuosity, unfolding through warm horns, delicate rhythms, and richly layered arrangements.
There is an effortless, almost weightless quality to the record, with pastoral jazz passages drifting into psychedelic soul and quietly experimental territory. Rather than pushing toward dramatic peaks, Resavoir let the music breathe, creating small shifts in texture and mood that gradually reveal themselves.
Above the Clouds feels intimate yet expansive—a beautifully arranged, unhurried record that draws from library music, spiritual jazz, and instrumental soul while retaining Resavoir’s distinctly modern sensibility.
