Friday, March 23, 2018

Kamaal Williams - The Return (BLACK FOCUS RECORDS May 25, 2018)


The Return is a natural evolution from the Yussef Kamaal project, mining the influence of visionary jazz but blended with all kinds of texture, sounds and signals from the over-saturated London streets. 

Notable tracks for old and new listeners are ‘Salaam', 'Situations', 'Medina', 'LDN Shuffle' which features Mansur Brown (of Mansur's Message) and for those die hard Yussef Kamaal fans - they should hear the interpolated roots of 'Strings of Light' in the title track 'The Return’. And that signature Wu Funk can be heard on 'Broken Theme', and 'High Roller'. 

The Return will be the debut album released on Wu's new label Black Focus Records.

1. Salaam
2. Broken Theme
3. The Return
4. High Roller
5. Situations (Live in Milan)
6. Catch The Loop (Album Version)
7. Rhythm Commission
8. Medina
9. LDN Shuffle
10. Aisha

Kamaal Williams - Keys
Pete Martin - Bass
MckNasty - Drums
Richard Samuels - Engineer

Mastered by Guy Davie @ Electric


SHOWS

Mar 23
Bristol, UK

Mar 26
Cologne, Germany

Mar 28
Paris, France

Mar 29
Antwerp, Belgium

Mar 30
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Apr 01
Manchester, UK

May 17
Brighton, UK

May 26
Oostzaan, Netherlands

Oct 28
Frankfurt, Germany