Yussef Kamaal - Black Focus (Full Album Upload)
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
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Tracklist:
00:00 1) Black Focus
04:34 2) Strings of Light
13:02 3) Remembrance
22:02 4) Yo Chavez
26:01 5) Ayla
26:47 6) O.G.
27:33 7) Lowrider
32:01 8) Mansur's Message
34:07 9) WingTai Drums
35:23 10) Joint 17
Yussef Kamaal are shaped by the sound of London. Growing up in the capital, they frame jazz within the bass-saturated, pirate radio broadcasts of the UK capital. 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 - are indebted to Thelonious Monk’s piano as much as the drum programming of Kaidi Tatham.
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Yussef Kamaal are shaped by the sound of London. Growing up in the capital, they frame jazz within the bass-saturated, pirate radio broadcasts of the UK capital. 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 - are indebted to Thelonious Monk’s piano as much as the drum programming of Kaidi Tatham.
Both hail from South East London, crossing paths in 2007 as teenagers playing their first pub gigs around Peckham and Camberwell. Dayes drums for cosmically-inclined, afrobeat outfit United Vibrations, while Williams - on top of drumming and playing keys in different incarnations over the years - has made waves with his solo, synth-draped house 12″s for much-fêted labels like 22a and Rhythm Section.
Born out of a one-off live session to perform Williams’ solo material for Boiler Room, it soon became a project in its own right. From rehearsing for that first show, it was clear to both that there was the possibility to do much more with the unspoken, telepathic grooves that unfolded. “It’s all about the drums and the keys,” Williams says. “That’s where it all originates from: the chords, the rhythm of the chords and the drums.” Coming together as Yussef Kamaal, they played a series of live shows where little more than a chord progression would be planned before taking to the stage.
For the pair, 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. Moving in the same circles but never playing together previously, rhythm underpins an innate musical understanding. Drawing influence from all corners of London’s shapeshifting musical make-up, their hotly anticipated debut album is due on Brownswood Recordings November 4th 2016. Titled Black Focus, its sound is distilled - or focused - down to the core interlock between drums and keys. 
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How am I just discovering this album in 2023? Damn. This is phenomenal.
no u
no matter when.. whats important is that you did!!!!
Have you discovered Megashira (2001) yet?
Same!
Same here! Better late than never, right? :D Greetings from LatAm!
Whenever i go into the comment section of these most underrated yet most masterpiece-ful albums all i see is ppl agreeing, wishing each other good day, and love! this is truly what real music sounds like and does to humans. Have a wonderful day everybody.
Very true.
Thank you brother!
I agree with you. Have a wonderful day
Papa Shimada I read the comments but I never put that together like you said but you’re right. Well they say MUSIC brings people together. Thanks for the observation!!!!
Yeah, buddy!
Food for the soul.
Love the "Black Ford Focus" hidden behind the Arabic writing.
Hello Jonny - didn't expect to see anyway I know here? It's Joe Purnell by the way - you probably don't recognise my work account. Yes just seen the Ford Focus - took me a while. Will be seeing these at Dimensions festival this year.
Yo Joe, How tricks buddy? I just looked at the line-up for Dimensions!!!! WOW! You must go see my mate Radioactive man play Live. Pure ELECTRO at its best. I went to Croatia last year for Suncebeat festival. Was amazing fun. Would love to go back.
Will check him out
Jonny B' well spotted! Good eye for detail or mad passion for cars or both lol?
Wow, that's cool! Good eye!
For anyone wondering, the Arabic says "Yusuf Kamal"
For real, these RUclips suggestions and the updated algorithm they are operating with are a blessing.
praise the lord
Spotify recommendations are shit compared to these.
Korneel Vandaele ik vertel net vandaag dat spotify juist enorm werkt voor mij 😄. vandaar dat ik deze plaat heb besteld 🎶
Yes, tried other 'music' services - RUclips is a god send when sourcing new music. It is yet to let me down!
Kml Dr. Dunno man I think they're about the same. What I usually do is sift through my spotify discovery playlist and then go to youtube with the ones I liked, then also search youtube's suggestions on the side. Pretty good way to find new stuff to listen to (I basically never run out of good new music).
Personnel
Kamaal Williams: rhodes, synthesizer, producer, composer
Yussef Dayes: drums, percussion, producer, composer
Mansur Brown: electric guitar
Tom Driessler: electric bass
Kareem Dayes: electric bass
Shabaka Hutchings: tenor saxophone
Yelfris Valdés: trumpet
Was looking for the bassist/s in this one, thanks!
that's what you call a supergroup nowadays! Amazing musicians...
Are Yussef and Kareem brothers or something?
@@Rock100208074 doy
Thankyou for revealing the other musicians on this wonderful album!
Yussef Dayes is a king on drums!!
Trust!
seriously badass!
Billy Cobham and Idris Muhammad would be proud
Hi huys, listen to my Band. Its called Los Vidriosos and we are From Medellin, Colombia. Hope you like it.
soundcloud.com/mrvidrio/sets/losvidriosos
like a young omar ali ! very smouth and a lot of pleasure ....
Masterpiece!!! I'm Brazilian and your music sounds like Brazilian music and that's not to mention the incidences of the Afro-Brazilian religious that you use in this album ... Brazil stands to applaud your album ... Congratulations!! Obrigado, Yussef !!
Do you have any recommendation for similar Brazilian music?
With or without vocals, I love how Brazilian Portuguese sounds in music.
@@nazzzz89 Sim, Amaro Freitas, the new revelation of Brazil. He does jazz with references to music from northeastern Brazil. Obrigado!
Nossa, sim! Amaro Freitas é um milagre.
I've looked up Amaro Freitas, unbelievable musician. He deserves way more recognition, thank you!
@@nazzzz89 Search For Azymuth
This is 1000% hip. All of these dudes have ferocious chops.
Also DnB, fo' sure :)
Yussef Dayes has the chops, Kamaal Williams has the creativity
@@hakeemahmadjamal7403 Checkout JD Beck and Domi, unbelievable talent.
42:15 "But, check it out. You create your own reference point and that has always been what jazz is about."
The drumming here is absolutely majestic. Whole album has that magical chillout vibe. Great stuff.
i know i want more! too bad they broke up
Hi huys, listen to my Band. Its called Los Vidriosos and we are From Medellin, Colombia. Hope you like it.
soundcloud.com/mrvidrio/sets/losvidriosos
Chill yet extreme, fuck
@@dontpanic15 Yussef Dayes has a couple of awesome tracks, check out "Love is the Message" for example
Does anyone else hears Yussef on song Remembrance at 18:52 - 18:53 making little stop (dunno, maybe mistake) and saying Aaaaaa? Such awesome moment, at one second you think he is out, but a sec later he gets back in groove, powerful
Sounds intentional for me :)
Where are these two we need more music
Don't know how I got here , but i'm not leaving anytime soon!
Amen
I think Yussef Dayes may be one of the best drummers alive at the moment...
Can't stop hearing this album, is amazing, this is new age, old age, old school, new school. Can't stop the transformation of the time we live in..!
This is probably the best album I've heard come out in the past few years. Simply flawless
oh dear
oh dear
Oh daer
Tom Souden I see you like your music bland
Man, this is not OK. (Yeah yeah don't feed the troll, whatever.) It's not OK to shit on people for liking things. It doesn't matter if _you_ think it's a good album or not, dude's allowed to like it.
Anyway, since you have such a great taste in not bland music, what's something you'd recommend? I won't open links but I will look them up on this site.
Currently freaking out over how good this is.
I’m three songs in, and my skull is blown open!! Incredibly amazing album!
The kids brought up on that jazzy shit through the 90's finally grown...this sounds complete!
*jungle
word
@@richjones7313 Of course it's jazz, but there is a jungle/dnb style beat to much of the drumming.
@@zachjohnson637 and hip hop!
@@zachjohnson637 Reminds me a lot of squarepusher
This album will, I predict, become a classic as did Bitches Brew. A whole world, somewhere between London and Africa, has been created here.
I'm thinking the same thing, listening for the 1nn-th time, this is very sophisticated, beyond its time.
Quarantine season with an album I almost forgot about.. this is the cure right now!
Gifts of music unlimited. Soul to Soul from these musicians. From one jazz head to another .onelove
Bless the all-knowing youtube algorithm, not for necessarily knowing my taste, but expanding it instead, what a streak!!!!
That opening was simply exquisite !!👌 😍 👏.
The incantations fused with all the different sounds transported me to my motherland Zambia 🇿🇲!!!
Beautiful 😍 stuff!
For the first time these algorithms on youtube are suprisingly spot on with introducing me to some new dope stuff I've never heard before
the more responsible and disciplined you are with the content you consume, the better algorithms get.
@@Koraxus that mean listen to the same kind of stuff all the time so the machines will only recommend the same crap over and over. i didn't end up here by only clicking stuff I'd heard before. The algorithm led them here because it was new. It led us here cos we were on the path
The drummer is a serene god. Such a majestic playing with no any overforcage or overstrain for effect, the things i hate most of so called "great" rock drummers. The whole album is a kind of new face of modern jazz. Impressed.
5 years, still my fav Jazz Album 🙏
this is like a hot spring bubbling up from the ground....... happening all by itself, naturally. And you can't escape its warm wonder
well said :)
Was fortunate to ride with an uber driver that had Yussef playing. This music right here! Is what I'm talking about! Please continue to make more my brother. Simply awesome.
Thank God im alive. Give us more of this sound man
free floating jazz . mind and body . soulful invasion. rhythm explosion
10/10 = a modern masterpiece
Just discovered this. Shockingly good. Such a fresh sound, with a lurking familiarity. Sweet!
The continuation to Incognito from the 90ies... damn good
Just what I've been looking for. Thanks so much to the band and uploader!
Vinyl ordered! Sitting by the door, waiting.............A must have!
hope you have it by now ! haha
Yussef has always been energetic and deeply focused.
This album is a masterpiece! It connects jazz, fusion, electronics in elegant manner, giving a sound that fits equally well with my living room and with a club with live music. The track "Yo chavez" is my favorite.
It's past 3am and I was suffering through a anxiety attack as I was trying to study my Indonesian course on Duolingo. My attack lurched my progress and stole my focus away from me, I tried every kind of music I had in arsenal; from dark ambience to 90s hip hop beats alongside some breathing techinques I searched up but that combination turned out to be futile on my part. It wasn't until I remembered I that I saved this video, so I clicked back and relaxed. I'm feeling great right now! I've always loved Jazz but I haven't utilized it's use in a decompressing setting in a long time. I'm feeling like my self again, all much thanks to Yussef Kamaal's unique demonstration of beautiful Jazz music! Cheers y'all!
hope your course went well! best to you 🤍
the drumming feels so effortlessly smooth, sounds awesome
This album is amazing...solid and retro, real musician's. Revived my faith in music!!!
The soundscapes are brilliant, this music is timeless!
This album is so beautiful.
This album showed up right on time. I'm blowed and just erased a ton of shit. The perfect vibe for positive motivation. Perfect mix of masculine & feminine. This is definitely being added to rotation. Thank you.
Aaawesome, thank you guys for the upload
I'm surprised these guys haven't been on NPR tiny desk concerts yet.
This is by far the greatest thing I've ever heard
Just stumbled upon them this morning. Great album, and I'm particularly in love those Cortex-style drumming.
Found this my second year of college when it came out. It is a timeless album. To this day it just... its great. truly.
Best album in the world 🙋🏻♂️
AMAZING!!! acid jazz in its purest state.
What a brilliant album, where has this been all my life?!
Soaking this up on loop. Third time 'round, it just gets better and better. Best jazz I've heard in years.
such a masterclass record! always glad to dicover this kind of beauty
Oh yes. Some of the best new jazz I've heard in a few years. Magical drums and bass, fine fine keyboards. I love the improvisational feel, with all the perfection of fine musicianship. I can listen to this album all day.
Yes! Huge thanks for the upload!
Woke up with this masterpiece playing random on yt. Algorithm being great again
How did they get it so right....unreal love it , thanks for restoring my faith in real music!!!
this is wonderful, i cant believe that something like this exists..
a big thank you for the upload ...
greatly appreciated ...
every single moment of this record is brilliant
A serendipitous moment when I clicked on this album. So happy to add this to my jazz collection. Wishing you all a wonderful life.
Contemporary masterpiece!!! Thanks God for a bit of fresh air in this current sea of music mud!!!!
Loved it, thanks for the upload.
This is such supreme music, so indebted to you guys, thank you.
I rarely comment on RUclips, but I have to. To me this is mature, classy, and intriguing. Also fun. Sparks alot of feelings/moods when I hear it, actually. Skills upon skills here. Tasteful and a bit on the experimental side. The bass work is awesome so are the drums. Jazz, HipHop, Jungle-ish. One could "chill" to it, but when I hear it I am too busy listening. I have heard several albums that dance around this idea, but none compare imho. Great Stuff!
Music lives here. Big up to Brownswood for making this available. Support the artist if you can!
Wow, that's a great set of tunes you have there. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Beautiful Album. Been streaming it here everyday, finally purchased on iTunes. Lots of love folks! Inspriring stuff
Excellent.
Drumming making me giddy! Loving the pure class!
This one really helped me out. For a long time I wasn't hearing any quality in new material besides the obscure; this album kept be grounded, and made me see that there really are plenty of good musicians out there arranging great material. Cheers.
There are. Have you heard of Triorität?
Track 7 - Lowrider is the funkiest tune I've heard in a long time - what an absolute pleasure to listen to.
The drums in track 2. I'm blown away.
I dare to say this album is one of the best of its kind.
Very excellent music indeed! Thank you for sharing this!
This album is gold! Knew about it for a few years and sharing with a friend.
BOOOOM! Top class! Need to see these boys play live!
Yo Chavez has one of the slickest bass lines ever!
Splendid. Never heard of this. Clicked expecting late 60s/early 70s. Wholly cheering to discover it was produced in C21st London. Will now purchase. More please!
Got this on vinyl waiting for down at the (closed today) post office. An excellent album!
Masterpiece. Full-stop. Proudly owning vinyl copy.
god i'm so flattered that youtube would recommend this to me. incredible
discovered this by "chance" on new years eve at friend's. This is absolutely fantastic.
God this album is so good. Getting so much work done to it.
This album simply connects synapses in my brain that even hanka robotics wouldn't manage to do. Love it.
This is phenomenal. Thanks for the blessing...
THIS is one to purchase!! It's all so good it makes me wanna cry.
Great stuff, no nonsense, just terrific grooves beginning to end, and that production clarity too... nice.
In between deep thoughts and hyper energetic! IM LOVIN IT!
Just discovered this
I'm amazed!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
ima need another album please, i be praying on that. king chops on this man
Cheers for this Jazzy delight!
The percussions! HOLY MOLY!
one of the grooviest albums. I listen to the whole thing like a sound bath. Great drumming!
this is surprisingly amazing , not because of the doubt of quality of the musicians , but only by the simple fact that this was made in the post "golden jazz / funkk music era" ... Congratulations to everyone who made this project possible!
With love from Russia, this is great.!
Thank you RUclips Recomendation
Congratulations on the work, a very good direction in cultural music and sociable performance in recording!
One of my favorite albums! 😁🤟🤟 Kamaal Williams-keys, Yussef Dayes-drums, Mansur Brown-guitar..such good vibes.
There's a beast on that bass! This is glorious