Bring backs

"Bring Backs' centrepiece is a poem by Hilary Thomas, which taps into the struggle of existing between cultural worlds. It is the liminal pulse of a record tense with the conflicting promises of past and future. The poem's final line is "Time is a healer, when there's no turning back." Alfa Mist weaves masterfully from threads of nostalgia, but Bring Backs, when you unravel it, is more of an ode to faith and resilience than a mournful remark on what is gone".

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"On his fourth full-length, 2021's genre-melding Bring Backs, British pianist and rapper Alfa Mist showcases his vivid, enveloping mix of jazz, R&B, classical, and hip-hop ... A largely self-taught pianist, the East London-reared Mist plays in a laid-back, harmonically nuanced style informed by '70s jazz and fusion, '90s hip-hop, and modern electronic production. Mist brings this cross-pollinated aesthetic to Bring Backs, crafting tracks that feel inspired by vintage Lonnie Liston-Smith or George Duke recordings, but with a keen, contemporary ear".

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"Coming to the genre via hip hop, it has become a sort of second language for Alfa Mist to communicate, in more detail, his upbringing. In doing so, the London-based producer, pianist and MC creates the potential to connect people through shared experience ... In all, Alfa Mist welcomes the listener into his world with an album that is warm, accessible and thought-provoking".

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