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It might feel a bit strange to promote an album that is five years old, especially since I've been growing and evolving in that time. but I take a bit of a philosophical view on this: in retrospect it is good that we are only bringing it out now. Everything has its time.
Like the acoustic album Living Room had to come out at the moment it came out. Maybe if I had released it two years earlier, it wouldn't have sold as it did, or be recognized as it is. Maybe if I had released it after Urban Gipsy, people maybe would have asked "what is Bai up to?"
Which is really cool, thinking about it now. Back then, we probably wouldn't have done anything with the Urban Gipsy album if it had come out. Now I'm ready to take it out on the road. In a lot of ways it's like the David Lynch kinda thing "Backwards story".
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Another thing which I think about is the fact that I have played a lot of different kind of songs over the years which I adapted to the venues and the audience. For example a lot of people that knew me via the radio, know acoustic songs like Downtown St Josse & The Powers that govern us, and people that know me via the clubs and pubs know Substitute, Urban Gipsy and other songs, but also mainly in an acoustic version since it suited the period of the Living Room album better .
What's nice now is that we'll be playing with six different musicians, and six different sounds, integrate the acoustic work and find a nice balance between it all so we'll have a bigger and better show.
What is also nice is that you can see the progression in the musicianship of everybody involved, which makes that live we give much more than what is on the record.
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Personal comments of Bai Kamara Jr. on the Urban Gipsy album.
Part 1: The Start & Concept Of The Album.
Part 2: Production & Sound.
Part 3 :Principal Players.
Part 4 :Extra Talent.
Part 5 :The Stories.
Part 6 :Evolution Over Time .
Part 7 :(Video) Comments On The Songs.. |
People who buy your record and love your record, want your performance to be just as good live, it's great that they can come to a concert and see it's even better then that.
It can also work the other way. If someone buys a record at my concert, they expect the same vibe and the same energy of the concert. But that's never the case, and maybe it can disappoint some people. So I try to keep a good balance between the two.
I think it is going to be nice for people if they hear the record on the stand in the music store, and then they come to the concert and hear that it's even better. I don’t think many modern artists can say that today. |
It's the opposite of what you hear lately in the industry, where people make a fantastic record, but when you go to see them play, there's nothing coming out of it, it's just empty and weak on stage.
I think one of our biggest strengths is playing live. Its only now that we're learning how to make records, but we have been playing live for years. Urban Gipsy was the first record that I actually produced. Then doing Living Room you actually feel right away, even though it's minimally produced, that there was a direction and a vibe, whereas for Urban Gipsy it took quite a while to find a way. And I'm sure that for the next album our personality and presence will be even stronger, and from the moment that we enter the studio we'll already know where we’re going.
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