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Roamin'

by Danny Keane

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Sebby There's a lot going on in this album, which at times reminds me a lot of Recoil. Blues-ish jazz infused electronic at its finest. Favorite track: Roamin'.
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Olomouc 02:21
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Flight 19 05:40
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Roamin' 06:11
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Addis 05:47
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Igor 04:38
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Afro Cello 03:23
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Ajoyo 05:32
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Danny Keane’s long apprenticeship with some of the world’s greatest artists – Anoushka Shankar, Nitin Sawhney, Mulatu Astatke – has given him a profound musical grounding from which to create his own unique musical vision.

Drawing on a rich and and varied career, Roamin’ is a thrilling coming together of a lifetime’s worth of ideas and influences. Bursting with flavours of jazz, Indian folk traditions, African rhythms, European classical and contemporary dance music, Danny traverses many genres and geographies pulling them all together into a unifying, dizzying whole.

In a sense, with Roamin’ Danny has rewritten musical boundaries creating a soundscape all of his own. At the same time, he’s captured the diverse sounds of urban London right now – a sonic melting pot as visceral, challenging, vibrant and celebratory as the city itself.

The album represents the cutting edge of new, emergent urban music. Jazz is at its core, but it’s much more than that. It’s an unfolding genre, a joyous hubbub of musical storytelling, a thousand human conversations at once crackling with the energy of a North African souk or Dalston’s Ridley Road market. A cross-section which is echoed in the extensive list of collaborators who have joined Danny on this outward-looking record. Names such as Mulatu Astatke, Pirashanna Thejaravah (Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar), Tom Skinner (Sons of Kemet), Richard Olatunde Baker (Tony Allen) and Khadijatou (Heliocentrics) among others.

“One of the great pleasures of working with different artists belonging to different genres is the variety musicianship I get to share the stage with” adds Danny on the collaborative process. “So often I would dream of getting these musicians in the same room and hitting record. Despite their varied traditions they all share a common goal - the pursuit of great art! I knew that one day I would do this”

Perhaps this is what makes Roamin’ sound so unique. It’s an intelligent, magnificent, genre-defying musical mash-up that speaks to a higher common denominator, and yet, for all it’s rawness and complexity, remains wonderfully accessible, tender and human.

The album features a stellar lineup - Byron Wallen (Jack Dejonette), Aref Durvesh (Nitin Sawhney), Pirashanna Thejaravah (Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar), James Arben (Mulatu Astatke), Tom Skinner (Sons of Kemet), Richard Olatunde Baker (Tony Allen), Dan Smith (Noisettes), Spoken Word Artist Khadijatou (Heliocentrics), Seth Bennett, Ian Ritchie (Roger Waters), Ben Henry Edwards (Charlie Winston), Sam Walker (Arthur Brown), Charlie Winston, and the father of Ethiojazz Mulatu Astatke makes a guest appearance.

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released September 25, 2020

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