Over coils of spiny guitar and treated, vaguely taunting, vocal samples, Byrdsong’s liquid fine-grained flow is as much a croon as a recitative, spinning a tale of conscious momentum that fully acknowledges the hurdles placed in all of our paths.
Casey has coupled astonishing breath control with gentle technique, rendering inspirations as disparate as dubstep, hip hop, R&B and funk into hypnotic poetic melodies.
Black Ship Japan takes its name from the fateful 1853 encounter between U.S. naval commodore Matthew Perry and Japan’s isolationist Tokugawa shogunate.
David Kamara’s career got an unexpected boost when the then-struggling Sierra Leonean-Canadian musician/producer was asked by a man on the street for a dollar.