If Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy was set as a jazz concept album in a computer game setting, Lewis Daniel's 'Defective Disk' wouldn't be too far from a fashionably (choose your own post code) London setting.
Sax player Daniel has put together 13 tracks that with a jazz-core, along with big name mates like Jay Phelps and Nathaniel Cross plus acclaimed actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (Star Wars, The Queen’s Gambit) who voices Mason, the imaginary CEO of 'Blink', "a dystopian social media conglomerate controlling governments and news". It's like a post Trump2 update on Soweto Kinch's 'A Life In The Day Of B19: Tales Of The Tower Block' (2006) that was very pre-Social Media in a conscious hip-hop jazz period (Ed. for locational purposes B19 is next to B6, where Aston Villa's Villa Park is).
'Flawed' featuring Natty Reeves is the 'redemption' highpoint but it really is a UK Jazz 'concept' album and I like Daniel's comment, "Artists like Louis Cole, Hudson Mohawke, and Radiohead really inspired me to experiment with production on this album".
As Lewis Daniel is an alumini of The BRIT School, Guildhall School of Music (2013) and Tomorrow’s Warriors (like Soweto before him) so there's no contrieve mix with DnB ('Ships Do Sail') or 'Tech Glitch' or 'Find Your Tribe': can you see the concept connections in the song titles.
With 20 musicians contributing you get everything from neo-soul, fusion synths, jazz skat and Carrib pan drums and you can expect support from Jazz FM, BBC Radio 6 and on Jamie Cullum's BBC Radio 2 show.
Artist: Lewis Daniel
Title: Defective Disk
Release date: 13th May, 2025
Label : Independent
Catalog Number : TBC
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
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