Variables

'I?ve been focused on who I am in my music, but now I?m exploring where I am,' Alfa Mist says. 'I?m asking: how did I get here?' This is the journeying question that underpins Alfa?s fifth album, Variables. Travers- ing luscious, big band swing, head-nodding boom-bap rhythms and yearning vocal melodies, the record is expansive, soulful and moving, in both body and spirit. On Variables, his second release for ANTI-, Alfa achieves his most fully-realised, expres- sive musical work to date, coupling his keen ear for looping, memorably emotive piano melodies with intuitive grooves and a free-flowing jazz improvisation. Since the release of his first full-length project Nocturne in 2015, Alfa has estab- lished himself as one of the UK?s most focused, in-demand and distinct musical voices. He has worked with the likes of Jordan Rakei and Tom Misch. Artists look to him for his unique blend of intimate bedroom production and expansive jazz group orchestration, since Alfa is yet to be boxed into a specific genre. His music spans everything from hip-hop beat-making to producing for artists such as rapper Loyle Carner, composing neo-classical works for the London Contemporary Orchestra, and reworking tracks from composer ?lafur Arnalds and pioneering jazz label Blue Note. The return to live shows has been a welcome one for Alfa and his fans, re- sulting in an instantly sold-out run of debut US shows in 2022, as well as a headline gig at London?s Barbican in 2021, and an expanded

Tracks

1~1~Foreword
1~2~Borderline
1~3~Believe Feat. Kaya Thomas-Dyke
1~4~Cycles
1~5~The Gist
1~6~Genda
1~7~Apho Feat. Bongeziwe Mabandl
1~8~Variables
1~9~Th Feb (Stay Awake)
1~10~Bc

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Alfa Mist
Release Date: 21 April 2023
Genre: Jazz
Label: ANTI
Distributor: Rocket Group