![]() ![]() If you wanted a new Moses Boyd album and couldn’t wait, the opening track Signature picks it up in a crisp contemporary groove by Baldry’s son Sam Baldry that wouldn’t be out of place on Boyd’s Mercury-nominated debut Dark Matter. London Fields is part of Hackney, the North London heterotopia that punches big, more associated perhaps with hiphop forms than the nu-jazz that tends to congregate around South London locales though Hackney does have its jazz names and places, with the Kansas Smitty’s on Broadway Market and of course neighbouring Dalston is home to the internationally esteemed Vortex Jazz Club. The starting point is the jazzy orchestral soul sound of classic Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield, but as a paean to the English capital city, it absorbs some of the urban sensibility of the more ruminative moments of Moses Boyd or the strong brass blast of Steam Down or SEED Collective, with a cinematic appeal that goes some way toward capturing the eclecticism and romanticism of life in the big smoke.
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