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Yussef Kamaal + Sarathy Korwar + Djs Danuka And Yadava (so Flute) at Islington Mill, Salford
Courtesy of Joshua French | Posted on November 2, 2016
Where
Islington Mill, Salford
1 James Street, Salford, M3 5hw
Salford
Map
0161 278 6404
When
Thu, November 10, 2016
19:30
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Musicians
About
Yussef Kamaal are shaped by the sound of London. Growing up in the capital, they frame jazz within the bass-saturated, pirate radio broadcasts of the UK capital. The pair, made up of Yussef Dayes and Kamaal Williams (aka Henry Wu), have had little in the way of formal training. Instead, their musical tastes – and approach to playing – are indebted to Thelonious Monk’s piano as much as the drum programming of Kaidi Tatham.
Both hail from South East London, crossing paths in 2007 as teenagers playing their first pub gigs around Peckham and Camberwell. Dayes drums for cosmically-inclined, afrobeat outfit United Vibrations, while Williams – on top of drumming and playing keys in different incarnations over the years – has made waves with his solo, synth-draped house 12″s for much-fêted labels like 22a and Rhythm Section....