Alfa Mist – Variables (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:25 minutes | 495 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph
On Variables, his second release for ANTI-, Alfa achieves his most fully realised, expressive musical work to date, coupling his keen ear for looping, memorably emotive piano melodies with intuitive grooves and a free-flowing jazz improvisation. Since the release of his first full-length project Nocturne in 2015, Alfa has established himself as one of the UK’s most focused, in demand and distinct musical voices. He has worked with the likes of Jordan Rakei and Tom Misch. Artists look to him for his unique blend of intimate bedroom production and expansive jazz group orchestration, since Alfa is yet to be boxed into a specific genre. His music spans everything from hip-hop beat-making to producing for artists such as rapper Loyle Carner, composing neo-classical works for the London Contemporary Orchestra, and reworking tracks from composer Ólafur Arnald’s and pioneering jazz label Blue Note.
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Alfa Mist – Structuralism (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:18 minutes | 524 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sekito
No point in checking if Alfa Mist has read all of Roland Barthes, the guru of structuralism… Behind his keyboards, the Brit designed his album Structuralism with a more modest objective: “I have been affected by my environment. My upbringing has shaped me in a way where I do not know how to communicate. Structuralism is about, “I am who I am” because of the structure of society I grew up into. Now I need to learn how to communicate.” What Alfa Mist communicates very well with his second album is an innate sense of soft groove and a vital need for exchange. Yet another proof of the strength of today’s British jazz scene, which flourishes in soul, funk and hip hop, the latter being the first chapter of the young musician’s saga.
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Alfa Mist – Bring Backs (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:38 minutes | 449 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph
2021 release. Alfa Mist is one of the driving forces behind a young and vibrant scene of UK musicians, who’ve taken on jazz as their musical narrative. On his new album Bring Backs the producer, self-taught pianist and rapper takes us on a sonic trip back to his beat-making past on the streets of East London, through the depth and musicality he discovered composing and playing jazz. 2017 saw the release of Alfa’s breakthrough record, Antiphon and the 2019’s album Structuralism were both self-released on his Sekito label. His latest endeavour, 2021’s Bring Backs, sees Alfa taking on new challenges. The record marks his first release for the label Anti and is also the most detailed exploration of his upbringing in musical form.
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