The Late jaimie branch Is Airborne on 'Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))'

There's no telling where the flight plan would have guided the late jaimie branch and her Fly or Die ensemble. But if the American trumpeter, vocalist and composer's Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) is any indication, it would be somewhere far beyond jazz and conceptions of what it should be; grand fusions of free improvisation, Latin and Caribbean rhythm, folk music's modestness and unbridled punk spirit serving as the wind beneath their wings. ((world war)) shares an extravagance shown by the peacock adorning its cover; the other birds casting their gaze upward at the heights the bandleader and her group soar toward.
 
More prominent than on past Fly or Die outings is branch's voice, offering memorandums to hold close in her absence as we wing into the future. The rhythmic delivery employed on "take over the world" communicates not a quest for power, but liberation, urging listeners to "give it back to the land." Amid the world feeling broken on standout "burning grey," branch hurriedly expresses, "I wish I had the time / I wish I had a nine," before finding on the other side of a moment of boisterous improv, "Trust me, just for a moment / Believe me, the future lives inside us / Don't forget to fight."