{"id":13505,"date":"2018-03-26T14:48:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T13:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=13505"},"modified":"2018-03-26T14:48:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T13:48:32","slug":"kamaal-williams-set-to-release-debut-album-the-return-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=13505","title":{"rendered":"Kamaal Williams set to release debut album <em>The Return<\/em> in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kamaal-Williams-The-Return.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13508\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kamaal-Williams-The-Return-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kamaal-Williams-The-Return-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kamaal-Williams-The-Return-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kamaal-Williams-The-Return.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>South London&#8217;s multi-talented <a href=\"https:\/\/en-gb.facebook.com\/YussefKamaal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamaal Williams<\/a> aka Henry Wu is one of the UK&#8217;s finest jazz musicians to emerge in recent years, garnering wide acclaim with his now disbanded duo Yussef Kamaal and a 2016 debut album. May 25th will see him release his first record under his own name, <em>The Return<\/em>, through his own label Black Focus Records. &#8220;The Return is a natural evolution from the Yussef Kamaal project&#8221;, describes the press release, &#8220;mining the influence of visionary jazz but blended with all kinds of texture, sounds and signals from the over-saturated London streets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Williams enlisted bassist Pete Martin and drummer MckNasty to help him bring the album to life, with Richard Samuels on engineering duties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Return<\/em>&#8216;s opening track &#8216;Salaam&#8217; is streaming now and it serves as a fantatic taste of what he&#8217;ll be throwing at us.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3515419127\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=1644518701\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kamaalwilliams.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-return\">The Return by Kamaal Williams<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South London&#8217;s multi-talented Kamaal Williams aka Henry Wu is one of the UK&#8217;s finest jazz musicians to emerge in recent years, garnering wide acclaim with his now disbanded duo Yussef Kamaal and a 2016 debut album. May 25th will see him release his first record under his own name, The Return, through his own label [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1881],"class_list":["post-13505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-kamaal-williams"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13505"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13511,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505\/revisions\/13511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}