Some of you may know that I’m a graphic designer by day, so when I saw that destination-out.com decided to explore Sam Rivers and his album Hues… well I couldn’t resist.

“Synesthesia – what colors do you hear? Vladimir Nabokov talked about certain words and letters evoking different tints and shades for him and it’s a rare but documented phenomenon. In the case of Rivers’s Hues, the concept may be a bit forced but the music is unusually vivid.”

Amber – Mauve – Onyx+Topaz