YUSSEF KAMAAL - Black Focus LP Minimal Wave with “Ants From Up There”

with “Ants From Up There” managing to strike a skilful balance between feeling like a bold stylistic overhaul of what came before

of a deliberate shedding of fineries

The music of Portland musician Dewey Mahood exists in constant communion with nature

This time the Brit fades away deeper into the gloomy abyss of synth-based postpunk than ever before

YUSSEF KAMAAL - Black Focus LP Minimal Wave with “Ants From Up There”The borders between Londons 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 genres 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