Odyssey (Vinyl)
London saxophonist, composer and bandleader Nubya Garcia has announced her anticipated new album, Odyssey, on Concord Jazz.
Odyssey is – as the title suggests – an ambitious, epic journey.
In a largely male-dominated scene, Garcia has carved herself a prominent space and she invites other brilliant Black female musicians to join her for this adventure, namely; esperanza spalding, Richie Seivwright and Georgia Anne Muldrow. Odyssey is produced by Garcia and returning collaborator Kwes.
Describing Odyssey – the follow up to her widely-celebrated and Mercury Music Prize-nominated 2020 debut, Source – Garcia says; “It represents the notion of truly being on your own path, and trying to discard all the outside noise saying you should go this way or that way.” It’s also inspired by life’s ever-changing, ever-continuing adventure; the twists and turns of living. Musically, the album finds Garcia orchestrating strings for the first time, having fallen back in love with composition and then painstakingly studied a vast array of orchestral sounds. The bigger, bolder result is a widescreen soundscape that traverses jazz, classical, R&B and dub.
