Diggin’ This: Pino Palladino & Blake Mills ft Chris Dave – “Taka” (Verve/New Deal/Impulse!) (Video)

 

That Wasn’t a Dream, but this is a dream team.

 

 

 

The levels are stratospheric on this one.

 

 

Three virtuosos and veritable masters of their respective instruments—Pino Palladino, Blake Mills, and Chris Dave—have reunited to create the free-wheeling and exploratory “Taka,” an undeniable groove doggedly in search of itself with a guitar line so expertly enhanced that it sounds like a flute.

 

 

On repeat. 

 

 

Pino Palladino & Blake Mills ft Chris Dave – “Taka” (Video)

 

 

 

 

 

“Taka” is taken from Pino Palladino and Blake Mills‘ new collaborative album, That Wasn’t a Dream, out August 22 via Verve/New Deal/Impulse! Records.

 

 

 

 

Stream it on Spotify here.

 

 

 

 

Check out more of my favorite songs from Pino Palladino here

 

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listen to more of my favorite music from Blake Mills here

 

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hear this track and the other songs I’m very into right now on my 2025 Essentials playlist here.