At one point, I also reluctantly took piano lessons with my mother’s friend,” he laughingly remembers. My sisters had ukuleles, and my dad taught me how to play guitar. “By the time I was born, my father had taken up banjo, and both him and my mother had a house full of instruments-dulcimers, a piano, and various British-made banjos. He also remembers his mom for a hodgepodge of instruments she had strewn around their home. He grew up in a musical family, and his father had a steady guitar gig on Welsh television. Through the years, Will has recorded under various handles and subgroups, all with a sense of genre blurring and bending he’s known for. For Look Around the Corner, Alice packed her bags for Cali to record with Will-and his troupe, Combo Bárbaro-in his analog studio. and had relocated to Cali, Colombia, immersing himself in Latin rhythms and setting up a studio now famous for housing local musicians. Last year, almost a decade since they first met, Will’s compositions of bossa nova, jazz, soul, and reggae finally anchored Alice for a full-length effort. imprint founded in 1999 that pushes modern soul, funk, and jazz. They’ve been in contact ever since and have toured together for Tru Thoughts, the prolific U.K. The two met before on 2004’s “Somebody’s Gonna Love You,” a track from Alice’s second release, Under the Munka Moon.
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