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Yussef Kamaal – Black Focus2016Heny WuKamaal Williams & Yussef DayesYussef KamaalBrownswood70SPIRITUAL JAZZJAZZGILES PETERSON Yussef KamaalUKRobert GlasperKamasi WashingtonYussef Kamaal Herbie HancockMahavishnu Orchestra70Black FocusYussef DayesKamaal WilliamsHenry WuThelonious MonkKaidi Tatham WilliamsBoiler RoomYussef Kamaal The HeliocentricsMalcolm CattoDayesHenry2Dayes 2007DayesUnited VibrationsWilliams22aRhythm SectionYussef Kamaal A1. Black Focus A2. Strings Of Light A3.
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2016年の大名盤が嬉しい再リリース!!Heny WuことKamaal Williams & Yussef DayesによるプロジェクトYussef KamaalのデビューアルバムがBrownswoodから待望の再リリース!70年代のSPIRITUAL JAZZの迫力と、現代シーンへの意欲的なアプローチはまさに新世代JAZZの最前線。GILES PETERSONが惚れ込んだのも納得の間違いない1枚!

ロンドンの音楽シーンでジャンルの境界が曖昧なのは常識ですが、Yussef Kamaalはその自由な精神を見事に体現しています。ジャングル、グライム、ブロークンビートの影響を受け、自分たちのスタイルをUK流のジャズとして独自に磨き上げました。アメリカでは、Robert GlasperやKamasi Washingtonといったアーティストがヒップホップとジャズの融合を進めていますが、Yussef Kamaalはロンドンの海賊ラジオから生まれるベースの効いたサウンドをジャズに取り入れ、その結果は新鮮で刺激的です。

Herbie HancockやMahavishnu Orchestraの70年代ジャズ・ファンクの自由な精神に影響を受けた彼らのアルバム「Black Focus」は、実験の余地がたっぷりです。Yussef DayesとKamaal Williams(別名Henry Wu)は、ほとんど正式な音楽教育を受けていないにも関わらず、Thelonious MonkのピアノとKaidi Tathamのドラムプログラミングに影響を受けた独自のスタイルを確立しています。

「すべてはドラムと鍵盤から始まる」とWilliamsは言います。Boiler Roomでの一度限りのライブセッションから始まったこのプロジェクトは、Yussef Kamaalとして独自のものとなり、ライブショーではコード進行以外はほぼ即興で演奏されています。その結果、生まれるグルーヴはまさにライブの生のエネルギーそのものです。

録音セッションでは、The HeliocentricsのMalcolm Cattoがエンジニアを務め、計画なしで生まれるテレパシーのようなグルーヴがそのまま記録されています。Dayesは、「完全なアレンジメントよりも、フローが重要」と述べ、多くのトラックは即興で作られ、Henryが2つのコードを弾き、Dayesがそのグルーヴを埋めることで自然なアレンジが完成します。

二人は共にサウスイーストロンドン出身で、2007年にパブでの初ギグで出会いました。DayesはアフロビートのUnited Vibrationsでドラムを担当し、Williamsは異なる形態でドラムや鍵盤を演奏し続け、22aやRhythm Sectionといった有名レーベルでソロ作品を発表しています。Yussef Kamaalのサウンドは、今まさにロンドンの音楽シーンを新たに定義しようとしています。

 

A1. Black Focus
A2. Strings Of Light
A3. Remembrance
B1. Yo Chavez
B2. Ayla
B3. O.G.
B4. Lowrider
B5. Mansur's Message
B6. Wing Tai Drums
B7. Joint 17

 

The borders between London’s musical tribes have always been porous. For Yussef Kamaal, the sound of the capital – with its hum of jungle, grime and broken beat – has shaped a self-taught, UK-tipped approach to playing jazz. In the states, the genre’s long-running to-and-fro with hip hop – from Robert Glasper to Kamasi Washington – has reimagined it within US culture. On Black Focus, Yussef Kamaal frame jazz inside the bass-saturated, pirate radio broadcasts of London.

Taking inspiration from the anything-goes spirit of ‘70s jazz-funk, on albums by Herbie Hancock or the Mahavishnu Orchestra, it’s a loose template with plenty of room to experiment. The pair, made up of Yussef Dayes and Kamaal Williams (aka Henry Wu), have had little in the way of formal training. Instead, their musical tastes – and approach to playing – are indebted to Thelonious Monk’s piano as much as the drum programming of Kaidi Tatham.

“It's all about the drums and the keys,” Williams says. “Not to take anything from anyone else, but that's where it all originates from: the chords, the rhythm of the chords and the drums.” Born out of a one-off live session to perform Williams’ solo material for Boiler Room, it soon became a project in its own right. Coming together as Yussef Kamaal, they played a series of live shows where little more than a chord progression would be planned before taking to the stage

Bringing that unspoken understanding to the recording sessions (engineered by Malcolm Catto of The Heliocentrics), the unplanned, telepathically spawned grooves retain the raw energy of their live shows. “It's not so much about complete arrangement, it's more about flow,” Dayes says. “A lot of the tracks are just made spontaneously – Henry will be playing two chords, I'll fill in the groove and we'll just leave the arrangement naturally.”

Both hail from South East London, crossing paths in 2007 as teenagers playing their first pub gigs around Peckham and Camberwell. Dayes drums for cosmically-inclined, afrobeat outfit United Vibrations, while Williams – on top of drumming and playing keys in different incarnations over the years – has made waves with his solo, synth-draped house 12"s for much-fêted labels like 22a and Rhythm Section. 

 

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