Gemma & The Travellers - True Love Artist_TRF

Gemma & The Travellers - True Love Artist_TRFGemma's message: This album is about love, about fighting for human rights, accepting that we are not perfect human beings, enjoying life doing what we really want to do even if sometimes we think it is too late, but its better late than never. Also, I talk about the real love, the one that has never gone, the one which gives you the power and strength every day of your life, the one which is always present, even when you do not see it anymore but

a deftly constructed LP of musical subtleties from a considered artist mining the creative result of a lifetime's listening and making

continued making music (La Sera for Goodman

releasing nearly 500 live albums before civil war broke out in his native Syria in 2011

"It felt natural to team up with an artist well known for boldness and experimentation

slow tempo beat

he became a pivotal figure

After the wide expanse of his last big band album The State Between Us made with more than 1000 musicians and singers across Europe

a subtext of the bands creation was a sense of alienation at London’s thinning pool of afrobeat and highlife nights – particularly of black listeners and players

Ushering in the flipside

though in their understated simplicity they have a melodic beauty that is seldom found in jazz of today

Wide ranging and eclectic

It’s a sublimely untidy album