The ‘unsaid’ is what many of us are feeling. The world’s ever-growing violence constrains our ability to describe it. South African born but now living in Amsterdam, trumpeter and composer James McClure has delivered an album of late night jazz-blues that gives voice to his own ‘unsaid’ thoughts and it is as beautiful as it is free. Read / Listen.
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YAHYA a.k.a. Constantine Weir 'Certainty Beyond Logic' (Itez) - a review
Student of Sufism, co-founder of Galliano, spoken word poet and musician, Constantine Weir has delivered an album of exceptional potency for these times. Soul music with an inner core of blues, jazz and the Caribbean is the vehicle for his sometimes personal, sometimes universal words of power and hope. The music draws in parts from gospel, folk, Sly Stone, Terry Callier, Islamic Africa and the Deep South, still managing to sound like the London that reared him. A limited vinyl only release, do not sleep on this. Read / Listen.
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