Rowing up River to Get Our Names Back Anthony Joseph

• 1 Satellite 04:50
• 2 Black History 06:42
• 3 Tony 09:18
• 4 A Juba for Janet 08:13
• 5 Churches of Sound (The Benitez-Rojo) 08:38
• 6 An Afro Futurist Poem 04:40
• 7 Milwaukee & Ashland 08:42
• Total Runtime 51:03

Info zu Rowing up River to Get Our Names Back

Durch die Zusammenarbeit mit Shabaka Hutchings (u.a. Sons Of Kemet) seit dem Vorgängeralbum „The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running For Their Lives“ (2021) entstand die Kooperation mit dem Musiker, Komponisten und Producer Dave Okumu, der vor allem als Sänger, der für den Mercury Prize nominierten Band The Invisible bekannt ist, als Sessionmusiker für Größen wie Grace Jones oder Amy Winehouse arbeitete. Als Co-Autor und Co-Produzent ist Okumu u.a. für Adele, Terri Walker oder Matthew Herbert aktiv gewesen. Die Magie und Alchemie seines Produktionsstils bereichert „Rowing Up River To Get Our Names Back“ mit subtilen Klängen und tiefen Schichten und führt zu einem zeitgenössischen Sound, der Anthony‘s afrofuturistische Messages perfekt inszeniert. Talking Jazz Poetry im Geist von Gil Scott Heron, Jazz, Soul, Hip Hop und karibische Vibes bilden immer noch die Grundpfeiler des unverkennbaren Anthony Joseph-Styles - der sich mit diesem Album erneut auf ein einzigartiges Level bewegt. Ein zweiter Teil dieses Albums soll noch 2025 erscheinen!

Dan See, Schlagzeug
Dave Okumu, Bass, Gitarren, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Programmierung, Percussion, Hintergrundgesang
Nick Ramm, Fender Rhodes, Synthesizer
Aviram Barath, Synthesizer, Moog
Colin Websters, Saxophone
James Wade Sired, Posaunen
Byron Wallen, Trompete
Eska Mtungwazi, Gesang, Gesangsarrangement
Anthony Joseph, Gesang
Aviram Barath, Synthesizer

Engineering durch Nick Powell und Dave Okumu
Gemischt von Dan Parry
Gemastert von Shawn Joseph @ Optimum Mastering
Produziert und arrangiert von Dave Okumu

Anthony Joseph
is a poet, novelist, academic and musician who moved from Trinidad to the UK in 1989. A lecturer in creative writing at Birkbeck College, he is particularly interested in the point at which poetry becomes music.

As well as four poetry collections, a slew of albums, and three novels – most recently Kitch – Joseph has published critical work exploring the aesthetics of Caribbean Poetry among other subjects. He performs internationally as the lead vocalist for his band The Spasm Band. Sonnets for Albert is his first poetry collection since Rubber Orchestras. His most recent album is The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running for Their Lives.

The life of Caribbean people is not really documented. So this idea of Caribbean life being fragmented is something that I've had in my mind for a long time. So when I came to write this collection for my father, I realized that it was the same process and what I had were fragments, especially with him, because he wasn't around in a physical sense all the time. So all I had were little photographs, scattered memories, and remembrances. They're little parts of his life and parts of my experience with him... I never disliked my father. I always loved him and always was fascinated and captivated by him.

My relationship with improvisational music is something that I'm still trying to theorize and trying to understand exactly why it is that it works. So all I know is that, in approaching a poem, it's about form and content. It's about matching process to content. And for me, the act of writing poetry is kind of like a jazz soloist puts together a solo. It's related in that way because as a writer, as a poet, you are always looking for the new. You're looking for something, a new way of saying something. You're using language that everyone uses, but you're always trying to reuse it in an original way. Always trying to have a phrase or metaphor that is new.

Dieses Album enthält kein Booklet