daoud - ok - LP - 180g Pink Vinyl [AUG 29]

LP - Limited Edition 180g Pink Vinyl. Includes download card. 

French-Moroccan trumpeter, producer and composer daoud joins the ACT family of artists. The "problem child of French jazz" is one of the most interesting rising stars of the country's vibrant jazz and crossover scene.

The album explores failure, loss, repetition and the soft absurdity of pretending everything’s fine. Across 14 tracks, daoud weaves tragedy and humour, chaos and tenderness, melody and noise into a rich and emotionally charged soundscape.

At its core, OK is a jazz record treated like anything but a jazz record. The foundation of the music was created live in the studio, together with keyboardist Leo Colman, double bassist Louis Navarro, drummer Silvan Strauss, electric bassist / guitarist / keyboardist Jules Minck and keyboardist Kuz. The editing of these recordings was more akin to a pop production, yet the sounds, pads and textures added afterwards are subtle and refined.

The elaborate production is topped by a striking line-up of international musical guests who lend the music even more facets and emotions: corto.alto (trombone / GB), Rosie Frater-Taylor (guitar and vocals / UK), Mehdi Nassouli (guembri / MOR), Ludivine Issambourg (flute / FR), Teis Semey (guitar / NL), Kuba Więcek (alto saxophone / PL) and Julien Fillion (tenor saxophone / CA).

The result sounds organic and immediate, as if you feel the production more than hear it. The album blends jazz, hip-hop, rock, disco, Afrobeat and drum and bass - not as genres to explore, but as emotional textures in a broader narrative.

Tracklist: 

1. dijon
2. plato's twins
3. la fièvre
4. l'oeil de jules
5. ame
6. 3114
7. le bâtard
8. everything but sex
9. soda
10. plagiat
11. l.p.a.m.
12. mathilde
13. ck
14. loulou & the loulous