{"title":"Duval Timothy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuval Timothy is a multi-disciplinary artist who was born in 1989. He currently resides and works between London, UK and Freetown, Sierra Leone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith his diverse background, Duval explores various artistic mediums to express his creativity. His work reflects a unique blend of influences from both the Western and African cultures that have shaped him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough his art, Duval aims to captivate audiences with thought-provoking concepts and visually stunning creations. His ability to seamlessly merge different disciplines allows him to create truly innovative and engaging pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sen-am","title":"Sen Am","description":"\u003cp\u003eSen Am is an enduring and tender album, rich and beguiling and generous in a quiet way. Over the last few years, I find myself returning to it, listening and absorbing, reflecting on the voices and working through the multiple layers of feelings and themes it announces with confidence and equanimity. Notions of care and contradiction, expressions of joy and desire and the underlying feeling of unease and turmoil; there is an urgent appeal to the listener for generosity, to strengthen our capacity to hear multiple voices simultaneously, to exist in multiple places at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuval Timothy’s music was dropped into our world from another realm sometime in the spring of 2017. We received the call and we answered it. The rhythm and spirit was transmitted via London’s NTS Radio on the Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show with Charlie Bones and a short while later we were listening to the first vinyl edition of Sen Am in our living room in Berlin. The record got a lot of plays (at home and at some shows, before and after performances). It was like sunlight filtering through a cracked window and remaining there for a moment, dancing. Blue music emanating from a liminal zone, an in-between space, somewhere on the outskirts of Freetown, or rural Sierra Leone, or the outer edges of South London, or Bath, UK, or some undisclosed orbit, unfixed location. The music is soaked in diasporic experiences. It refuses to settle but still invites us to enter and stay awhile in that zone, where multiple forms exist (all) together with jazz, hip-hop, various strands of expressive electronics and experimental music all breathing together and moving around. It is a portal to a place of possibilities, a space for building and repairing possible and lost connections. But life in that liminal zone is precarious; it is life under duress; under pressure – not merely the pressure to produce a presentable, categorizable, and salable body of work, but the pressure that compels us to experiment and create new concepts and things that will help us imagine a different existence, a way out of the turbulence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFreetown is a marvellous and sometimes sad place. It is one of those unmistakable locations inscribed diasporic memory; a place that touches you, a place that holds you and demands you bear witness: witness to pain, poverty, joy and desire. You remember the voices and the eyes of people even in momentary encounters. In Sen Am, you hear not only Duval’s recollections and sounds of Freetown, you hear family and friendship, people coming together and forming bonds, creating surrogate families. Forging community wherever you go is a practice, and community is at the core of this music. It’s in all the voices, from Emmerson and 6pac to Aminata and Aruna. It opens up a space for Black voices, for Sierra Leonean voices, and those voices extend through the succeeding projects, the 2 Sim EP and the album Help, and all that radiates from Duval’s Carrying Colour imprint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThank you for the invitation to write about the album Sen Am, on the occasion of its re-release which also coincides with the release of the exquisite double 7” Smɔl Smɔl with cktrl — a wonderful piece which calls on the listener to play both records at the same time to hear the music or play them separately and hear different versions. Duval is strengthening us, encouraging us to feel comfortable with discomfort, with incompleteness, with the hard-to-understand. 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In between delivering a celebrated cookbook for Penguin Books, and an interactive installation at Tate Modern Turbine Hall, Duval makes music, which is sampled by the likes of Solange and Loyle Carner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vinyl Factory","offers":[{"title":"2LP - Black","offer_id":50478855553355,"sku":"1099607","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"2LP - Clear","offer_id":50478855913803,"sku":"1121053","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3c2a30de-65bd-4c5e-affa-cd95b869613a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727492925"},{"product_id":"brown-loop","title":"Brown Loop","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter being out of print for several years, Duval Timothy’s phenomenal ‘Brown Loop’ has finally been reissued. Recorded in New York in the winter months of 2016, this brand-new edition features a slightly adjusted track listing. The release date is 2nd of October 2020, which happens to be the multidisciplinary artist’s birthday. Duval has asked me to write a few words about his record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carrying Colour","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50490569032011,"sku":"1140210","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/11063fd3-3bb1-475f-baa6-2e419604fb7a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727666820"},{"product_id":"meeting-with-a-judas-tree","title":"Meeting With A Judas Tree","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Primarily recorded at my home studio in South London, Carrying Colour studio in Freetown, my old studio in Rotherhithe Old Police Station, and Casa Mahler in Spoleto. Recorded on different pianos, including an upright in Freetown that had lost the felt of its hammers due to the humidity creating a harpsichord-like sound as the raw wood struck the strings. Other prominent instruments featured are Moog Grandmother, double bass, electric guitar and Juno-G.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart of the piano recordings on 'Up' and 'Drift' were composed and recorded through April 2021, whilst I was an artist in residence at the Mahler \u0026amp; LeWitt Studios, Spoleto, for the 'Mahler, The Song of the Earth' project in partnership with Mahler Foundation. During the residency, I was studying and creating work in response to the life and work of Gustav Mahler, in particular 'Das Lied Von Der Erde' (The Song of the Earth) — a vast song cycle engaging with nature, forgiveness, friendship, and mortality themes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile making this record, I wanted to explore what the natural environment means personally. I went on many trips into nature to engage with plant life and natural materials. These included everyday strolls around South London, walks with my mum in the hills surrounding Bath (Up), hikes through Freetown, the hills of Spoleto, up line in Ghana and nature sanctuaries in Sierra Leone (Wood). I found incredible examples of nature in all of these contexts, which I felt personally close to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI made field recordings with my phone or Zoom recorder, documenting various birds, insects, monkeys, bats, plants, trees, stones and so on, which are all on the record.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carrying Colour","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50902558081355,"sku":"2001594","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Meeting_with_a_Judas_Tree_a13cadee_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1732791844"},{"product_id":"help-4","title":"Help","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDuval Timothy\u003c\/b\u003e's \u003ci\u003eHelp\u003c\/i\u003e feels like his most expansive and searching record yet, bringing in collaborators including \u003cb\u003eLil Silva\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eMelanie Faye\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eVegyn\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eDesta Haile\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eMr Mitch\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eDave Okumo\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eTwin Shadow\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded between London and Los Angeles, the album traces experiences of moving through the music industry, living alongside mental health struggles, and navigating the strange comfort of YouTube self-help videos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat comes through most strongly is the sense of healing \u003cb\u003eDuval Timothy\u003c\/b\u003e found in friendship and collaboration, giving \u003ci\u003eHelp\u003c\/i\u003e a generous, open-hearted pull that makes its ambition feel deeply human.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carrying Colour","offers":[{"title":"2LP - Milky Clear","offer_id":58115787030859,"sku":"R9204-9497","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/HELP-DuvalTimothy2020_RGBSM.jpg?v=1786557939"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_4f2d9ea4_thumbnail_4096_d98414cd-ad18-484e-a3d1-cbbd63b44273.jpg?v=1727484149","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/duval-timothy.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}