The Ark

Description

For about twenty years, Anthony Joseph has been producing a powerful body of work, marked by the density of his subject matter and the intensity of his performance. A Trinidadian based in London, where he is a respected academic, he embraces the thoughts, literatures and musics of the Caribbean melting pot, including its diasporas, projecting them into the Tout-monde dear to Edouard Glissant. His tenth album, The Ark, is thus listened to with an awareness of the complexity of the themes that run through it: exile, Afrofuturism, surrealism, torments, love... on a musical orbit traversing voodoo rituals, calypso, spoken word, George Clinton's P-Funk and Sun Ra's cosmic jazz.