YUSSEF KAMAAL - Black Focus LP Electronic and occasionally sardonic vocals

and occasionally sardonic vocals

his unique contributions can be felt throughout the album

grooving tempo shifts

the seven tracks on What Does it Mean to Be American

some were never really released at all - Gary Davenport declined to release Sarra after he split with the girl for whom the track is named - years later a friend convinced Davenport to allow him to put 100 copies online to sell and DJ Sundae was quick enough to snare one

YUSSEF KAMAAL - Black Focus LP Electronic and occasionally sardonic vocalsThe 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