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Kaidi Tatham: The Only Way
ByTatham has played sessions and created remixes for artists as diverse as Mulatu Astatke, Marcos Valle, Amy Winehouse, Soul II Soul and Nubya Garcia, while Garcia guests on Walker's summer 2023 album Astronaught (Night Time Stories), which is reviewed here.
Tatham's The Only Way is a higher temperature and more up-tempo affair than Astronaught. Opening track "Reason We're Here" sounds like something Lonnie Liston Smith might have come up with had he been born fifty years later, but do not be fooled: the breakneck "Feels Like I'm On My Own" (check the YouTube below) is a more indicative track, kicking into rocket-speed Brazilian choro after a jazz-funk intro.
Its aesthetic shaped by streaming practice, where a galaxy of genres rub up against each other with an intimacy and immediacy not previously present in music culture, The Only Way is by no stretch of the imagination a jazz album, but it is one which benefits from infusions of jazz.
Track Listing
Reason We’re Here; The Most Wanted Puffin; Interlude Criss Thing; The Only Way; Windus Mc’Guntus; Confidence With Attitude; Feels Like I’m On My Own; Fricassee; Alien@$^%; It’s On; Not Suffering.
Personnel
Kaidi Tatham
synthesizerTiran Kayhatu
bass, electricMatthew Lord
drumsRory Sadler
saxophone, tenorAmir Townes
vocalsValvin Roane II, “V”
vocalsAdditional Instrumentation
Kaidi Tatham: clavinet, Moog, bass, piano; Tiran Kayhatu: drums, bass, keyboards; Matt Lord: drums, guitar, bass; Rory Sadler: tenor saxophone; Amir Townes: vocals; Valvin Roane: background vocals. Guests: Uhmeer, Lukey Dukey.
Album information
Title: The Only Way | Year Released: 2023 | Record Label: First Word
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About Kaidi Tatham
Instrument: Synthesizer
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