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    Tom Skinner Voices of Bishara

    • Tom Skinner – Bishara
    • Tom Skinner – Red 2
    • Tom Skinner – The Journey
    • Tom Skinner – The Day After Tomorrow
    • Tom Skinner – Voices (of the Past)
    • Tom Skinner – Quiet as it's kept
    • 1. Bishara
    • 2. Red 2
    • 3. The Journey
    • 4. The Day After Tomorrow
    • 5. Voices (of the Past)
    • 6. Quiet as it's kept

    Drummer and producer Tom Skinner (The Smile, Sons of Kemet) announces this lean and beautiful album, in which he edited a starry recording session into a sonorous, tuff and beguiling new shape. The title of Tom Skinner’s first release under his own name is a reference to cellist Abdul Wadud’s ultra-rare 1978 solo album ‘By Myself’, which Skinner listened to repeatedly during lockdown. Wadud’s album was privately pressed on his own label, Bisharra, and whilst Skinner’s title uses the more conventional spelling of this common Arabic name, they both have the same intention or meaning: it translates as ‘good news’, or ‘the bringer of good news’. This is a classic-sounding record that connects backwards to Skinner’s 2017 Hello Skinny collaboration with American composer and Arthur Russell-collaborator Peter Zummo on ‘Watermelon Sun’. It links sideways to Makaya McCraven’s beat maker-inspired treatments of jazz sessions, and it offers a musical bridge to Sons of Kemet’s most meditative moments.

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