Justin Adams: Guitarist & Producer
His production on landmark albums by Tinariwen and Rachid Taha highlight his feel for North African groove, while his award winning collaborations with Gambian maestro Juldeh Camara linked griot tradition with raw blues spirit . His early work with artists such as Jah Wobble , Sinead O’Connor and Natacha Atlas was infused with the spirit of post- punk London, while his recent solo album of guitar atmospherics Ribbons was cited by Songlines magazine as amongst the top 50 albums of the past decade.
Addictive TV: Global A/V Sampling
Orchestra of Samples by artists Addictive TV has been an enormous undertaking! Ten years spent recording over 250 musicians improvising while touring and performing internationally, then sampling them all to create new music.
Using music to help breakdown cultural barriers, they wanted a project that brought together as many musicians as possible from all backgrounds, both cultural and musical – an impractical task in the real world but not in the digital world of sampling.