Zoh Amba
A free jazz saxophonist known for incendiary live shows, Zoh Amba turns to thirteen guitar-based rock songs on “Eyes Full”, their raw, passionate singing to the fore. Sight and being seen thread the album, and a return to Kingsport reckons with the past. It’s an album so complete and so accomplished that it’s hard to believe that it’s their first foray into songwriting.
Zoh Amba has shared the title track and video for Eyes Full, their Matador debut, out June 5th. The track lands harder than lead single Another Time, three players threaded together as Amba’s acoustic holds the centre and asks what makes a heart full. The video, set in a gym, ends with the band joining in the fun for a pickup basketball game.
Zoh Amba announces Eyes Full, their Matador debut album, out June 5th, and shares the first single and video Another Time. Returning to their first instrument, the guitar, and to their Tennessee hometown, Amba delivers tough, soulful songs tracked live with no overdubs. The album looks closely at working-class lives with aching, unsentimental tenderness.
Jim White has released his new single “I Don’t Do / Grand Central.” The track, a spirited vocal exchange with Zoh Amba, is one of two songs on his new album where White sings for the first time. The music video, edited by Eve Sussman, follows the pair on a journey straight to the Oyster Bar of Grand Central Station, where the two commune and parry in delightful form.