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It's been a while since producer Rhys Adams dropped his first YesKing album (2008's Rock This World) and since then he has taken the concept and run with it... literally, as a band that has turned into something of a fixture on the festival circuit (Glastonbury, Birmingham Jazz and WOMAD last summer) and toured supporting none other than original rude boys Madness. The Madness hook-up made perfect sense, as YesKing shares that band's huge debt to Jamaican music, filtered through a twenty-first century, decidedly quirky sensibility...
Re-Record... Not Fade Away is the statement of a producer and a band that have found their sound, and that sound is outernational, futuristic and experimental, drawing from the innovations of downtempo/trip-hop to augment organic, rootsy music . Adams has now assembled a cast of collaborators that fit with his urge for sonic experimentation, his background in sound system culture, and his open-ness to the exciting influences all around him in contemporary multicultural London. Central to the new sound is guitarist Patrick Hatchett, whose CV includes nu-roots band The Soothsayers, and Jerry Dammers' Afro-futurist Spatial AKA Orchestra. Hatchett brings a sensibility and expertise perfectly attuned to Adams' background. Rapper Mystro, now something of a veteran in today's rap game, provides grit and humour, and another veteran, dancehall singer Kenny Knotts, is just one of a brace of singers now attached to the band. Kodjovi Kush, from Togo via Ghana and Israel, is another. Annie Bea (part of The Rotten Hill gang with Hollie Cook a moley crew assembled by Mick Jones of Clash fame) and Rioghnach Connolly also step into the limelight.