![]() The Clarett 8Pre 18-in, 20-out Thunderbolt™ audio interface was a big revelation for engineer Richard Samuels. Signature Wu Funk can be heard on Broken Theme and High Roller. LDN Shuffle features Mansur Brown (of Mansur's Message), and for those diehard Yussef Kamaal fans – they should hear the interpolated roots of Strings of Light in the title track The Return. Notable tracks for old and new listeners are Salaam, Situations and Medina. 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. I think those two elements make up what it means to create a piece of music.' 'Not only is it special that it was just one unit that we recorded it off, it was more the environment in which it was recorded in. 'The album was recorded on a Clarett 8Pre in my mum's front room,' says Williams. That’s what music and art is for – whether it’s a primitive emotion or something deep, you feel it.With the debut Kamaal Williams album The Return, the bandleader, AKA Henry Wu, decided to try to adopt a comfortable and free-flowing approach to their sound. To reach new heights requires separating ourselves from the material world and finding power in what’s intangible. Speaking about the new album, Williams said: “This is a revolution of the mind. On Wu Hen these players include new faces in Greg Paul (drums), Rick Leon James (bass), Alina Bzhezhinska (harp), and veteran strings player Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. Conceptually, the album takes as much inspiration from the spiritual traditions of his Chinese heritage as it does the vibrancy of his Peckham hometown, combining recordings of the pre-lockdown hubbub with the cosmic adventurousness of his and his bandmates’ playing. The album is preceded by the first single One More Time.Īs with much of his work, Williams uses jazz as his blueprint, but draws sounds and references from broken beat, grime, funk, garage and house to build a style he is almost synonymous with. Like its predecessor, Wu Hen is released on Williams’ own Black Focus imprint, itself named after the album he made with Yussef Dayes in 2016. Kamaal Williams, aka Henry Wu, has announced the follow up to his debut album The Return. Stream the first single One More Time now. ![]()
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