A project of
A project of
A project of
in collaboration with
EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY
“Move the body, move the mind, move the soul” is the principle by which Emma-Jean Thackray creates all her work. Her debut album, Yellow, sounds like exactly the kind of thing we’ve been craving for the past 12 months: a transcendent, human and shared experience..
Originally from Yorkshire, Emma-Jean began her musical journey at primary school and by the age of 13 was first cornet in a local brass band. Bandleader, multi-instrumentalist and producer, she now lives in south-east London and embodies a spiritual and dancefloor vision of jazz that breaks slightly from the broader UK scene.
His debut album ‘Yellow’ sounds just like the end of a long wait: a psychedelic, intense and ecstatic journey. A plunge into a new sound material from which everyone emerges transformed. Brass, strings, choral segments trace bright lines that wiggle between fusion and funk. One glimpses the cosmic invocations of the Sun Ra Orchestra and Alice Coltrane and, at times, echoes of dazzling Beach Boys.
