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Trance Sessions

Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara

Following many months of touring , taking their raw afro-blues to increasingly enthusiastic audiences, Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara took the spirit of the live performance back to the recording studio. As their repertoire of music unfolds over time on many different stages it takes on a character only hinted at on their studio albums. Juldeh, using griot skills honed since childhood, stirs the audience to a frenzy while Adams' drone guitar can provide sheets of sonic attack sometimes closer to The Velvet Underground's Sister Ray than a conventional world music gig. These recordings, the Trance Sessions, are their first featuring ex-Shriekback drummer Martyn Barker, were made live in the studio at the end of 2009, each track done in one take, with no overdubs. They are being released in their full length forms, with an African sense of time and structure - no 3.30 here. Repetition builds on each track that grows slowly from song to abstraction, infused with psychedelic energy, a web of sound far greater than the sum of the three player's parts.

Trance Sessions at realworldrecords.com