Black Focus EDNLP1210 To Lance's surprise

To Lance's surprise

Nikos Zarkias

Tortoise member Jeff Parker rediscovered a swathe of old home recordings - "beat projects" built around samples of dusty old jazz tracks

"Lovely record that deepens with every listen" The Independent on Sunday

intentionally direct album

Black Focus EDNLP1210 To Lance's surpriseOn 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, its 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