AprilApr 28 Tuesday 09
Videos of Robert Plant w/ Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara at WOMAD
Check out a series of really great videos here of Justin Adams and Soul Science collaborator Juldeh Camara at WOMAD Abu Dhabi 2009, with guest performer Robert Plant!
DecemberDec 15 Monday 08
"Soul Science" sweeps Best of 2008 lists!
Best of 2008 Lists are still being posted but here are some impressive stats for Soul Science so far:
#8 on NPR's Best African Music of 2008
#1 on Downbeat Magazine's Best CDs of 2008
#1 on Popmatters' Best World Music of 2008
#57 on Popmatters' Best Albums of …
DecemberDec 5 Friday 08
"Soul Science" is #1 in Downbeat's Best of 2008
Downbeat Magazine lists Justin Adams' and Juldeh Camara's Soul Science as No. 1 on their Best Albums of 2008 list!
SeptemberSep 4 Thursday 08
"Soul Science" in Dirty Linen: "an exciting record"
Justin Adams &
Juldeh Camara
Soul Science
World Village 468076
The links between North African music and punk have never been more clear than on Soul Science, the noisy new collaboration between journeyman guitarist Justin Adams and Gambian …
SeptemberSep 2 Tuesday 08
"Soul Science" in WOMEX's Top 20 CDs of the Year
Top-20 World Music CDs of the year
...* Sa Dingding: Alive (Wrasse, UK)
* Toumani Diabate: The Mande Variations (World Circuit, UK)
* Melingo: Maldito Tango (Naïve, France)
* Manu Chao: La Radiolina (Because, France)
* Watcha Clan: …
AugustAug 22 Friday 08
CD Review of the Week in FolkWorks: "Wild stuff"
"Soul Science is what happens when you mix a British electric blues guitar dude, best known for pop/rock work with Robert Plant's post-Led Zep solo band, with a Gambian riti (one-string fiddle) hotshot who's a griot from Africa but clearly conversant with mainstream …
AugustAug 12 Tuesday 08
Downbeat & The Independent: "spews sparks like a downed power line"
"Their sensational Bo Diddley homage, 'Ya Ta Kaaye,' spews sparks like a downed, dangerous power line, with fiddler Camara as wild as Cajun Doug Kershaw and Adams as passionate as Johnny Ramone." - 4 Stars, Frank John-Hadley(link)
Preview: Proms On Four - …
AugustAug 6 Wednesday 08
"Soul Science" on Soundstage: "clear some room for dancing"
Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara - Soul Science
World Village 468076
Format: CD
Released: 2008
by Shannon Holliday
4 Stars
Soul Science is the collaborative effort of guitarist and producer Justin Adams and Gambian musician Juldeh Camara. Fusing Afro-blues …
JulyJul 31 Thursday 08
Lucid Culture: "Ali Farka Toure on speed" & World of Music: "filling the Strummer-sized hole"
LUCID CULTURE
CD Review: Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara - Soul Science
July 30, 2008
Feel-good story: a friend of British guitarist Justin Adams gives a copy of one of his albums to renowned Gambian singer and ritti (one-string fiddle) player Juldeh Camara. …
JulyJul 28 Monday 08
Afrofunk Forum Interview with Justin Adams!
Afrofunk Forum Interview with Justin Adams!
By Kenny Eaton
This installment of the Afrofunk Forum holds a special treat. I got the chance to conduct an interview with Justin Adams and discuss his new album, the state of world music and what it means to be a …
JulyJul 18 Friday 08
Justin Adams in The Independent on WOMAD
The world descends on Wiltshire
This year's Womad will have the most eclectic line-up in its history, reports Tim Cumming
Friday, 18 July 2008
"Womad 2008 has a lot to live up to as it enters its second quarter-century. In 2007, it moved to its current site at …
JulyJul 11 Friday 08
Popmatters on "Soul Science": "one of the best things I'd heard all year"
"[Soul Science] has the rough, flourishing energy of 1950s rock 'n' roll: pent energy finally unpent, everything bursting into the foreground. The beginning of the second track had me thinking of a riff that I realised later belonged to Bo Diddley and had come …
JuneJun 30 Monday 08
"Soul Science" in Mix Magazine: "a hybrid sound sparking with roots blues"
JULDEH CAMARA
AND JUSTIN ADAMS
"SOUL SCIENCE"
(World Village)
Justin Adams, guitarist for Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant, teams with Juldeh Camara, Gambian singer and ritti (traditional one-stringed fiddle) virtuoso. The two, along with a rock rhythm section, …
JuneJun 20 Friday 08
"Soul Science" in Common Ground: "a rugged, raw delight"
Soul Science
Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara
(World Village)
"The man behind some of the most intriguing international music releases of recent years -- including efforts by Tuareg group, Tinariwen and French globetrotters Lo'Jo -- guitarist/producer Justin Adams …
JuneJun 19 Thursday 08
Justin Adams in The Argus
Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara, Pavilion Theatre, Brighton, June 19
By Warren Pegg
"I think the way to look at it is musicians have always listened to other kinds of music," says Afro-blues guitarist Justin Adams. "There's never been a time when people have …
JuneJun 18 Wednesday 08
"Soul Science" on NPR's Morning Edition
A track from Soul Science was played this morning (June 18th) on NPR's Morning Edition, Music Interludes:
MUSIC INTERLUDES
'We Wairi Bainguray Am [I Miss My Family]'
Listen Now [30 sec]
Artist: Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara
Composer: …
JuneJun 17 Tuesday 08
"Soul Science" in The Beat: "revved-up, super-charged, rockified"
"You'll find a revved-up, super-charged, rockified approach to West African desert blues on Soul Science (WorldVillage)...It sounds more like the music of northern Mali overheated to a high sizzle, a half-invented, half-folk-based crazy genre for global nomads. …
JuneJun 11 Wednesday 08
WNYC CD of the Week "Soul Science"
Soul Science is a WNYC CD of the Week today:
"Rock'n'roll pioneer Bo Diddley died last week, but the beat he created lives on. The latest musicians to re-invigorate it are British guitarist and producer Justin Adams and Gambian fiddle player Juldeh Camara. Adams …
JuneJun 9 Monday 08
Global Rhythm feature & interview!
Justin Adams will be featured in the July issue of Global Rhythm magazine! Adams is also quoted in an article about African music in the current Christian Science Monitor.
"On Soul Science [Adams] teams with Gambian vocalist and ritti (single-stringed fiddle) …