Black Focus Electronic For Angel and Tha Brothahood

For Angel and Tha Brothahood – which includes Deacon Otis Cooke (vocals

The quartet format with the presence of a piano (as opposed to the all-string Quintet of the Hot Club of France which was the guitarist’s most common setting)

The Australian performer travelled via Berlin to eventually settle in Manchester and is joined here by some of the city's most talented improvisers

ambient and traditional Ghazal forms

in New York

Black Focus Electronic For Angel and Tha BrothahoodOn 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