"This is What You Are" is a 60s styled jazz crooner with the rich, loungey voice of Mario Biondi riding over 4/4 kicks with a subtle Latin undertone reflected both in the percussion and horns. It's modern, dancefloor sensibility is in perfect tone with its classic jazz style.

1. This Is What You Are
2. On A Clear Day (you can see forever)

The b-side finds Was A Bee performing the jazz standard "On a Clear Day (you can see forever)". It's flavor works in the soul jazz space but should catch the ears of any old school hip-hop fans. The beat is slow rolling while the tone is funky and smooth, in perfect accent to the soulful and at times, slightly gravely voice of Mario Biondi.

Fans of Five Corners Quintet, Nicola Conte, Blue Note Records or the jazzy side of Eighteenth Street Lounge should surely embrace Was A Bee.

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