London-based Jesse Hackett aka Elmore Judd has gone from flogging his debut album outside Honest Jon's to being signed to the store's EMI backed imprint and doing it all with a dash of humour sounding a bit like the bastard child of Liquid Liquid, Captain Beefheart and Prince having far too much fun and not following any of the rules - I can imagine music theorists spitting out their tea all over their Rachmaninoff albums when they wrap their ears around Elmore Judd. Jesse has been invited to tour Mali with Damon Albarn and has gone from being a solo artist to having a full band, which isn't bad going I'm sure you'll agree. His biggest bit of luck came when he was recording Insect Funk, from which We Float In Time is gleamed, in Camden in London the studio he was using was vandalized and burnt to the ground but incredibly the master tapes were salvaged but unfortunately that prevents me from describing the music as smoking hot - you win some, you lose some. There is something incredibly original and playful about this music and it is easy to see why people such as Gilles Peterson have backed the album. Hard to categorize but all the better for it.
Elmore Judd - We Float In Time
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