Bring Backs Alfa Mist

• 1 Teki 06:00
• 2 People 02:59
• 3 Mind The Gap 03:28
• 4 Run Outs 04:52
• 5 Last Card (Bumper Cars) 04:26
• 6 Coasting 04:49
• 7 Attune 07:04
• 8 Once A Year 01:22
• 9 Organic Rust 04:36
• Total Runtime 39:36

Info for Bring Backs

Alfa Mist ist eine der treibenden Kräfte hinter einer jungen und lebendigen Szene von britischen Musikern, die den Jazz als ihre musikalische Erzählung angenommen haben. Auf seinem neuen Album Bring Backs nimmt uns der Produzent, Autodidakt, Pianist und Rapper mit auf eine klangliche Reise zurück in seine Beatmaking-Vergangenheit in den Straßen von East London, durch die Tiefe und Musikalität, die er beim Komponieren und Spielen von Jazz entdeckte.

2017 erschien Alfas bahnbrechendes Album "Antiphon" und 2019 das Album "Structuralism", die beide in Eigenregie auf seinem Label Sekito veröffentlicht wurden. Mit seinem neuesten Projekt, Bring Backs von 2021, stellt sich Alfa neuen Herausforderungen. Die Platte markiert seine erste Veröffentlichung für das Label Anti und ist auch die detaillierteste Erkundung seines Aufwachsens in musikalischer Form.

Alfa Mist

Alfa Mist
London based producer, pianist, bandleader and MC Alfa Mist today announces his fourth full-length solo record Bring Backs, out April 23rd via ANTI-. The album announcement is accompanied by brand-new single ‘Run Outs’, a skittering jazz exploration centred on Alfa’s Rhodes piano lines.

“Run Outs is a street game I remember playing when I was younger” says Alfa; “I used to think of making beats and playing with a band as separate worlds until I realised I was always trying to achieve the same thing. Making the music I want to make. With the song “Run Outs” I'm bringing together the vibe of my earliest beats with where I'm at today."

Bring Backs marks Alfa’s first release for the label ANTI- and is also the most detailed exploration of his upbringing in musical form. The album’s nine tracks of groove-based intricacies, lyrical solipsism and meandering fragmentations are tied together by a remarkable poem written by Hilary Thomas expressing the sensuous realities of building community in a new country. Entirely written and produced by Alfa, the album was recorded in London with a core band of longtime collaborators including Jamie Leeming (guitar), Kaya Thomas-Dyke (bass and vocals), Jamie Houghton (drums) and Johnny Woodham (trumpet).

Over the past 5 years Alfa has steadily established himself as one of the most dynamic and consistent talents to emerge from London’s widely celebrated jazz reformation. Building on long standing affiliations with the likes of breakout star Jordan Rakei, Alfa has always carved his own lane, following a distinctly outsider’s approach and free from the trappings of a traditional musical training.

Having arrived at jazz in search of samples for his teenage hip-hop productions, Alfa eventually taught himself piano by ear and quickly developed a unique style, with hip-hop rhythms driving throughout the improvisational forms, all bound by a pervasive sense of melody. His first three solo albums ‘Nocturne’ (2015), ‘Antiphon’ (2017) and ‘Structuralism’ (2019) were all released on his own label Sekito, and were interspersed with countless collaborations and side projects, highlighting a prolific work ethic and true versatility across piano, rapping and production that has established Alfa at the centre of an amorphous cohort of talented musicians to emerge from London.

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