Strings of Light
Context
Second track (8 min 28) on Black Focus, album by the duo Yussef Kamaal (Yussef Dayes and Kamaal Williams) released on November 4, 2016, by Brownswood Recordings. The track combines a breakbeat-influenced rhythm, synthetic strings, and brass interventions. The album reached number 13 on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums chart.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Renaissances (Los Angeles, London). Among the origins and influences of Renaissances: Acid jazz, jazz-rap, nu jazz, Spiritual jazz, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, British jazz, Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz, ECM and European jazz, Current scene (New York, Chicago, worldwide).