JUSTIN ADAMS TOURS UK WITH JULDEH CAMARA & TINARIWEN With BBC World Music Award winning album "Soul Science".
"One of the most intriguing, enthusiastic musicians in Britain" (Guardian UK), Justin Adams is known widely as a solo musician, Robert Plant's guitarist in the band Strange Sensations, and a producer/collaborator for such artists as Tinariwen, Sinead O'Connor, Brian Eno, Lo'Jo, and Peter Gabriel. Adams learned of the Festival In the Desert in Mali through his production work with French group Lo'Jo, and contributed a track with Robert Plant for the soundtrack of the event's documentary film. It was there he began working with Tinariwen and produced their first album, Radio Tisdas Sessions, in 2001, and their latest Aman Iman.
Adams' current collaboration with Gambrian griot and master of the ritti (one-stringed fiddle), Juldeh Camara, is manifested in the raw and gutsy Afro Blues of new album Soul Science (available in the U.S., May 13th 2008). Already an international sensation, the album was included in the Top 100 Albums of the Year by both fRoots and Songlines magazines, as well as named Best Culture Crossing Album in the BBC World Music Awards this month.
Declared "an exceptional effort" by Songlines, the album also features percussionist Salah Dawson Miller and bassist Billy Fuller, and achieves a white-hot synthesis of blues from several continents, American rock n' roll, and desert evenings when the moon seems well within reach. With fat, buzzing bass lines, searing fiddle riffs and no-holds-barred guitar licks, Soul Science feels like less of a cross-cultural collaboration than an endlessly fascinating dispatch from a new nation entirely.
Adams and Camara are on tour this May in the U.K. with Tinariwen.
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