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BOOKINGS:
"I owe everything to Justin Adams" - Robert Plant
The Trance Sessions
"it's live that Adams & Camara really come into their ownWell, here's an EP that goes some way to capturing that on-stage sensibility."
fRoots
Tell No Lies
The new album by Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara out now. Click here to order now
“Tell No Lies - The deepest trance-blues this side of Timbuktu. Tougher, louder, edgier and more elemental than ever”
Uncut (4 Stars)
"There’s more light and shade that on Soul Science, with a tangential side-step into Cuban music (‘Banjul Girls’) along with the more familiar trudges through Muddy Waters (so to speak). Highly impressive stuff."
Songlines (Top of the World Album)
“This follow up is even better; it’s even more confident and refreshingly varied, with songs that echo the raw exuberance of The Clash, the rolling blues of Muddy Waters and the delicacy and grandeur of the ancient griot ballads.”
The Guardian (5 Stars)
“Justin Adams is probably the most influential catalyst of African-Western musical crossovers of the last couple of decades”
The Independent (4 Stars)
“It’s an exotic, brilliantly realised example of a happy fusion of cultures.”
The Sun (4 Stars)
“This is an extraordinary album…the track Sahara negates any need for a Stone Roses revival.”
Mojo (4 Stars)
“BBC Wold Music Award winner Camara…offsets his trancey riffs against Adams’s band’s rockabilly echo to stunning effect”
Daily Express (4 Stars)
“[Tell No Lies] increases the intensity with no hint that there might be a limit to the seam they are mining.”
The Sunday Times
"Adams' prowling, earthy guitar riffs are the perfect foil to Camara's airborne single-stringed riti (violin) soloing"
The Independent on Sunday
"Despite the quartet's small resources, they produce a wall of sound, their number ending with ferociously heads-down, no-nonsense boogie"
The Guardian live
Soul Science
Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara's album 'Soul Science' is in all good record shops now, including online at the IRL store and iTunes
Soul Science won the Culture Crossing category at the BBC World Music Awards 2008
The album is the result of a meeting of two worlds - an Afro-Blues shakedown.
After a few years of collaborations with Robert Plant and Tinariwen, Juldeh's sound seemed like a perfect match for Justin's guitar and production. An African Master Musician who played in the fields for farmers as a child, Juldeh has the drive and effortless flow of a great Bluesman. And while his instrument brings to mind Delta players like Big Joe Williams, as well as Ali Farka, there is a lilt in his playing that hints at the ancient links between North Africa and the Celtic World.
Soul Science is far from a purist piece , it has gritty rock and groove throughout. It uses the ancient Soul Sciences of scale and Rhythm to create a 21st Century Afro Blues.
Justin Adams co-wrote The Robert Plant album "Mighty Rearranger" released in 2005 to rave reviews. He has played guitar with Robert's band the Strange Sensation around the world, gaining an awesome live reputation. 2007 sees the release of Tinariwen's third album "Aman Iman" which is already established as an album of the year, produced by Adams.
His distinctive style came to prominence in 1990 with Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart. Since then he has worked with Sinead O'Connor, Tinariwen, Natacha Atlas, Damien Dempsey,and LO'JO, as well as releasing his own "Desert Road" album. He has composed two feature film soundtracks, and was instrumental in setting up the legendary Festival of the Desert. He produced Tinariwen's debut "the Radio Tisdas Sessions", and first collaborated with Robert Plant on 2002's Grammy nominated "Dreamland "album.
".this is an exceptional effort"
Songlines, 5*
".a real landmark in African flavoured blues.it just feels right"
fRoots
“Unquestionably the cross-cultural album of the year”
Independent on Sunday
“…raw and gutsy”
The Telegraph
“…this is no dry experiment but music played with real soul”
The Sun, 4*
“…pounding percussion and driving guitar with equally stirring and virtuoso fiddle solos and rousing vocals”
The Guardian, 4*
“An album to make the word fusion respectable again”
The Evening Standard, 4*
“…Camara’s obsessive fiddling and Adams’ wide guitar shapes worked a treat…”
Financial Times, 4*
“ …it is difficult not to imagine Bo (Diddley) himself playing "Ya Ta Kaya" or "Sanakubay" on some 1950’s package tour”
The Times, 4*
"Admirers of Tinariwen and Ali Farka Toure should find this irrestible"
Uncut, 4*
Quotes from Justin’s highly critically acclaimed debut solo album Desert Road
"a masterpiece"
fRoots
"…a breathtakingly intense and expressionistic vision"
Songlines
" spidery psyche-out improv acid guitars and layers of entrancing acoustics"
Guitar Magazine - Pick of the Month
"powerful and restless.grainy and haunted"
Q Magazine
"a moody, evocative blend of Anglo-Arabic blues"
Guardian
Quotes from Robert Plant and The Strange Sensations' Mighty Rearranger album
"the impressive skills of guitarist Justin Adams dominate most tracks, his
intuitive playing is full of eastern promise"
Clash
"a shimmering stew of sounds that's part heavy rock, part heavy Mali, with
Justin Adams playing what looks like a giant leaf (a gimbri)"
Mojo Live Review
"Plant's best showing since Physical Graffitti"
Observer
Quotes from Tinariwen’s album Aman Iman
"Producer Justin Adams captures Tinariwen in the raw – minimalist collective playing"
Uncut
"This third album is by some distance the best showcase of their desert blues, thanks, in part to the sonic clarity of producer Justin Adams"
OBSERVER
"As producer, Adams has captured brilliantly Tinariwen's characteristic blend of loping camel-gait rhythms.and desert guitar lines"
Independent
"Justin Adams has wisely kept the band sound as live, and exhilarating, as the were in that Bamako rehearsal room"
Guardian
Screen Credits
Beautiful People – film score co-writer
When The Red Wind Blows – film score co-writer
The Kitchen Child – film score writer
Hackney Downs – film score writer
3 Ways To Go – film score writer
Numerous ID’s & themes for BBC, MTV, Channel 4 and ITV
Both Desert Road and KIN are available to buy from the IRL Store
To listen to Justin's documentary on Egyptian music entitled Nightingale of the Nile originally broadcast BBC Radio 4 go the BBC iPlayer
