David Walters with Vincent Segal, Ballaké Sissoko and Roger Raspail – Nocturne
LABEL: Heavenly Sweetness/Six Degrees Records
TRACK LIST
- Papa Kossa
- Carioca
- Freedom
- Manyé (unplugged version)
- Sam Cook Di
- Sa en yé
- Baby Go
- Interlude
- Mama (unplugged version)
- Vancé
- Nocturne
ABOUT THIS RELEASE
Release Date: February 5, 2021
“Never forget our past, our history” so goes the refrain at the end of “Mama” one of the songs from David Walters’s bold and affecting release from earlier this year on the Parisian label, Heavenly Sweetness, “Soleil Kreyol.”
On “Soleil Kreyol” David Walters achieved the apparent impossible – evoking such disparate worlds as New York’s ‘70s club culture and his own familial Afro-Caribbean roots, singing much of the album in Martinican Creole, against a shimmering, percussive soundtrack.
“Mama” returns on his latest, “Nocturne” in a stripped down version alongside a trio of master musicians: the renowned Malian kora musician Ballaké Sissoko, whos
What’s striking about Walters’s “Nocturne” is that despite the players’ diversity and the album’s array of musical influences – album standout “Freedom” fluidly moves between Walters’s delicate falsetto to a rapped verse in a setting buffered by a pensive cello, interlocking percussion and kora – it remains fully cohesive throughout.
ABOUT DAVID WALTERS
