Thundercat If indeed “you blows who you is,” as Louis Armstrong
once famously said, then Stephen Bruner’s bass is a mainline to
the soul of a man whose DNA was transcribed from the stars onto
staff paper. His Flying Lotus-produced debut, The Golden Age of
Apocalypse, offers both stone-cold skill and uncanny astrality,
picking up where the pair left off on 2010′s Cosmogramma and
further distilling the jazz current running through that
landmark Lotus release. A longtime contributor to others’
albums, Bruner, aka Thundercat, is accompanied by an impressive
cast ranging from Erykah Badu to members of Sa-Ra and J*DaVeY,
to pianist Austin Peralta and his own Grammy-winning brother,
drummer Ronald Bruner, Jr. Still, the end result is unmistakably
a Thundercat record — a lush and magical document combining
classic jazz fusion, futurist electronic strains and timeless
musical seeking.   Spanning a cosmic stew of players, locations
and times, The Golden Age of Apocalypse was years in the making
even though Bruner had n