Moodymann - Silence in the Secret Garden

A shady figure whose elusiveness suits his style, Moodymann makes house music that goes from beginning to end like a rumor moving through a room. He's not alone as a publicity-shy dance raconteur, but apart from fellow Detroiter Theo Parrish, Moodymann pretty much owns the impressionistic house mode he's smeared across melty grooves since the mid-'90s. His Silence In the Secret Garden plays a standard house hand–soulful diva coos, mellow rhythms in finger-snap time, warm coats of jazz–but its feverish spread makes for a cumulative effect that works wonders in album form