Yussef Kamaal - Black Focus (Full Album Upload)

[@dxubty]

For anyone wondering, the Arabic says "Yusuf Kamal"

[@MixtapeMagic]

How am I just discovering this album in 2023? Damn. This is phenomenal.

[@gnowongnomii]

no u

[@tadeocatzin6619]

no matter when.. whats important is that you did!!!!

[@mlqds]

Have you discovered Megashira (2001) yet?

[@animamundi6359]

Same!

[@alv_dh]

Same here! Better late than never, right? :D Greetings from LatAm!

[@1978JonnyB]

Love the "Black Ford Focus" hidden behind the Arabic writing.

[@solutionsplumbing]

Hello Jonny - didn't expect to see anyway I know here? It's Joe Purnell by the way - you probably don't recognise my work account. Yes just seen the Ford Focus - took me a while. Will be seeing these at Dimensions festival this year.

[@1978JonnyB]

Yo Joe, How tricks buddy? I just looked at the line-up for Dimensions!!!! WOW! You must go see my mate Radioactive man play Live. Pure ELECTRO at its best. I went to Croatia last year for Suncebeat festival. Was amazing fun. Would love to go back.

[@solutionsplumbing]

Will check him out

[@sf5823]

Jonny B' well spotted! Good eye for detail or mad passion for cars or both lol?

[@lex.cordis]

Wow, that's cool! Good eye!

[@chillanfly3893]

Whenever i go into the comment section of these most underrated yet most masterpiece-ful albums all i see is ppl agreeing, wishing each other good day, and love! this is truly what real music sounds like and does to humans. Have a wonderful day everybody.

[@oribasan]

Very true.

[@augustocalixto4760]

Thank you brother!

[@ronaldsalzar4002]

I agree with you. Have a wonderful day

[@kassorrells3150]

Papa Shimada I read the comments but I never put that together like you said but you’re right. Well they say MUSIC brings people together. Thanks for the observation!!!!

[@GiI11]

Yeah, buddy! Food for the soul.

[@mvlw____]

Personnel Kamaal Williams: rhodes, synthesizer, producer, composer Yussef Dayes: drums, percussion, producer, composer Mansur Brown: electric guitar Tom Driessler: electric bass Kareem Dayes: electric bass Shabaka Hutchings: tenor saxophone Yelfris Valdés: trumpet

[@magicianNevar]

Was looking for the bassist/s in this one, thanks!

[@Jay_Deeee]

that's what you call a supergroup nowadays! Amazing musicians...

[@Rock100208074]

Are Yussef and Kareem brothers or something?

[@antonzigando150]

@@Rock100208074 doy

[@edwardcleaver3020]

Thankyou for revealing the other musicians on this wonderful album!

[@sumsaudi]

Bless the all-knowing youtube algorithm, not for necessarily knowing my taste, but expanding it instead, what a streak!!!!

[@soulspace9088]

For real, these KZbin suggestions and the updated algorithm they are operating with are a blessing.

[@Sean-C-404]

praise the lord

[@k.vandaele851]

Spotify recommendations are shit compared to these.

[@supadope7185]

Korneel Vandaele ik vertel net vandaag dat spotify juist enorm werkt voor mij 😄. vandaar dat ik deze plaat heb besteld 🎶

[@moosesnWoop]

Yes, tried other 'music' services - KZbin is a god send when sourcing new music. It is yet to let me down!

[@MrMadalien]

Kml Dr. Dunno man I think they're about the same. What I usually do is sift through my spotify discovery playlist and then go to youtube with the ones I liked, then also search youtube's suggestions on the side. Pretty good way to find new stuff to listen to (I basically never run out of good new music).

[@lazarddiankson1400]

That opening was simply exquisite !!👌 😍 👏. The incantations fused with all the different sounds transported me to my motherland Zambia 🇿🇲!!! Beautiful 😍 stuff!

[@leandrograsso6299]

Can't stop hearing this album, is amazing, this is new age, old age, old school, new school. Can't stop the transformation of the time we live in..!

[@kawabungadad8945]

I think Yussef Dayes may be one of the best drummers alive at the moment...

[@joechoreo6419]

42:15 "But, check it out. You create your own reference point and that has always been what jazz is about."

[@gillucas6874]

Masterpiece!!! I'm Brazilian and your music sounds like Brazilian music and that's not to mention the incidences of the Afro-Brazilian religious that you use in this album ... Brazil stands to applaud your album ... Congratulations!! Obrigado, Yussef !!

[@nazzzz89]

Do you have any recommendation for similar Brazilian music? With or without vocals, I love how Brazilian Portuguese sounds in music.

[@gillucas6874]

@@nazzzz89 Sim, Amaro Freitas, the new revelation of Brazil. He does jazz with references to music from northeastern Brazil. Obrigado!

[@diogobatista7527]

Nossa, sim! Amaro Freitas é um milagre.

[@RaffaeleSansone]

I've looked up Amaro Freitas, unbelievable musician. He deserves way more recognition, thank you!

[@olima021prod]

@@nazzzz89 Search For Azymuth

[@nebel_slayn4290]

Currently freaking out over how good this is.

[@cmooreHD]

Quarantine season with an album I almost forgot about.. this is the cure right now!

[@totalnourban69]

Does anyone else hears Yussef on song Remembrance at 18:52 - 18:53 making little stop (dunno, maybe mistake) and saying Aaaaaa? Such awesome moment, at one second you think he is out, but a sec later he gets back in groove, powerful

[@soniccucumber6639]

Sounds intentional for me :)

[@rafaelgustavolazarte]

awesome moment!

[@kotoamatsukami.]

5 years, still my fav Jazz Album 🙏

[@SMamba-rz6ux]

Was fortunate to ride with an uber driver that had Yussef playing. This music right here! Is what I'm talking about! Please continue to make more my brother. Simply awesome.

[@OceanMoonJack]

This is 1000% hip. All of these dudes have ferocious chops.

[@theoldleafybeard]

Also DnB, fo' sure :)

[@hakeemahmadjamal7403]

Yussef Dayes has the chops, Kamaal Williams has the creativity

[@maccagrabme]

@@hakeemahmadjamal7403 Checkout JD Beck and Domi, unbelievable talent.

[@omer-sela-rothenberg]

The drumming here is absolutely majestic. Whole album has that magical chillout vibe. Great stuff.

[@dontpanic15]

i know i want more! too bad they broke up

[@TomFl00r]

Hi huys, listen to my Band. Its called Los Vidriosos and we are From Medellin, Colombia. Hope you like it. soundcloud.com/mrvidrio/sets/losvidriosos

[@juancruzmr]

Chill yet extreme, fuck

[@FlyingBaNana3000]

@@dontpanic15 Yussef Dayes has a couple of awesome tracks, check out "Love is the Message" for example

[@princestefan9089]

Yussef Dayes is a king on drums!!

[@pillarsofcreationuk]

Trust!

[@farn451]

seriously badass!

[@astrl7]

Billy Cobham and Idris Muhammad would be proud

[@TomFl00r]

Hi huys, listen to my Band. Its called Los Vidriosos and we are From Medellin, Colombia. Hope you like it. soundcloud.com/mrvidrio/sets/losvidriosos

[@craftmania000]

like a young omar ali ! very smouth and a lot of pleasure ....

[@Deftonedd4]

Don't know how I got here , but i'm not leaving anytime soon!

[@EvidenceBasedMedsin]

Amen

[@ThickishCheese]

The kids brought up on that jazzy shit through the 90's finally grown...this sounds complete!

[@stevebuschemi2205]

*jungle

[@Andrew-uh9eg]

word

[@zachjohnson637]

@@richjones7313 Of course it's jazz, but there is a jungle/dnb style beat to much of the drumming.

[@theoldleafybeard]

@@zachjohnson637 and hip hop!

[@OBudful]

@@zachjohnson637 Reminds me a lot of squarepusher

[@darrangoodman6688]

this is like a hot spring bubbling up from the ground....... happening all by itself, naturally. And you can't escape its warm wonder

[@jazzsecrets]

well said :)

[@plaiper366]

This album is a masterpiece! It connects jazz, fusion, electronics in elegant manner, giving a sound that fits equally well with my living room and with a club with live music. The track "Yo chavez" is my favorite.

[@OuterGalaxyLounge]

10/10 = a modern masterpiece

[@davidrankin516]

free floating jazz . mind and body . soulful invasion. rhythm explosion

[@Ms.soulkitchen1968]

Gifts of music unlimited. Soul to Soul from these musicians. From one jazz head to another .onelove

[@mookX92]

For the first time these algorithms on youtube are suprisingly spot on with introducing me to some new dope stuff I've never heard before

[@Koraxus]

the more responsible and disciplined you are with the content you consume, the better algorithms get.

[@BigSunn0]

@@Koraxus that mean listen to the same kind of stuff all the time so the machines will only recommend the same crap over and over. i didn't end up here by only clicking stuff I'd heard before. The algorithm led them here because it was new. It led us here cos we were on the path

[@F10cke]

Thank God im alive. Give us more of this sound man

[@KiaMiaProductions]

This album showed up right on time. I'm blowed and just erased a ton of shit. The perfect vibe for positive motivation. Perfect mix of masculine & feminine. This is definitely being added to rotation. Thank you.

[@JasonJebezSam]

This is so good I could listen to Yussef play drums all day long. Easily my favorite drummer on the planet

[@haclil]

This album will, I predict, become a classic as did Bitches Brew. A whole world, somewhere between London and Africa, has been created here.

[@conw_y]

I'm thinking the same thing, listening for the 1nn-th time, this is very sophisticated, beyond its time.

[@donnydarko7624]

This album is so beautiful.

[@white_lotus_rising8812]

The drummer is a serene god. Such a majestic playing with no any overforcage or overstrain for effect, the things i hate most of so called "great" rock drummers. The whole album is a kind of new face of modern jazz. Impressed.

[@emiliacanet9960]

Just discovered this masterpiece July 1 2023

[@potatokaiyote]

I'm surprised these guys haven't been on NPR tiny desk concerts yet.

[@trash_bender420]

This is probably the best album I've heard come out in the past few years. Simply flawless

[@TehWinnerz]

oh dear

[@nononononononono379]

oh dear

[@trash_bender420]

Oh daer

[@TehWinnerz]

Tom Souden I see you like your music bland

[@slugkid8775]

Man, this is not OK. (Yeah yeah don't feed the troll, whatever.) It's not OK to shit on people for liking things. It doesn't matter if _you_ think it's a good album or not, dude's allowed to like it. Anyway, since you have such a great taste in not bland music, what's something you'd recommend? I won't open links but I will look them up on this site.

[@honeychurchgipsy6]

Track 7 - Lowrider is the funkiest tune I've heard in a long time - what an absolute pleasure to listen to.

[@robertospaganini4474]

Best album in the world 🙋🏻‍♂️

[@SITBACKSHOW]

Vinyl ordered! Sitting by the door, waiting.............A must have!

[@other_jjoe]

hope you have it by now ! haha

[@Aldous944]

Oh yes. Some of the best new jazz I've heard in a few years. Magical drums and bass, fine fine keyboards. I love the improvisational feel, with all the perfection of fine musicianship. I can listen to this album all day.

[@patrickbarrow9060]

It gets better with every listen

[@Tomas-ls6dq]

this is wonderful, i cant believe that something like this exists..

[@ivansalvi_]

Yussef kamaal papaa!! Love from argentina!

[@Kurrency1911]

Black Focus (Track 1) when the bass comes in - FIRE!!!

[@benschebella673]

That yell at 18:52 is the best description of what it's like to listen to this album

[@Chiselfield]

Yes! Huge thanks for the upload!

[@koshn6924]

This album is amazing...solid and retro, real musician's. Revived my faith in music!!! The soundscapes are brilliant, this music is timeless!

[@mixrahmusic]

Just discovered this. Shockingly good. Such a fresh sound, with a lurking familiarity. Sweet!

[@masquenada7584]

The continuation to Incognito from the 90ies... damn good

[@psudonym-zh2fx]

Found this my second year of college when it came out. It is a timeless album. To this day it just... its great. truly.

[@BlaineMakesBeats]

I fucked around and listened to this whole album straight through. This is a timeless gem.

[@nicholasrebel9021]

Yo Chavez has one of the slickest bass lines ever!

[@kellyannthomas5727]

A serendipitous moment when I clicked on this album. So happy to add this to my jazz collection. Wishing you all a wonderful life.

[@magicianNevar]

Loved it, thanks for the upload.

[@suburbanflower]

Just stumbled upon them this morning. Great album, and I'm particularly in love those Cortex-style drumming.

[@lintinhere]

Music lives here. Big up to Brownswood for making this available. Support the artist if you can!

[@claudiorga3231]

AMAZING!!! acid jazz in its purest state.

[@NeoSoulquarian]

One of my favorite albums! 😁🤟🤟 Kamaal Williams-keys, Yussef Dayes-drums, Mansur Brown-guitar..such good vibes.

[@bebop54]

a big thank you for the upload ... greatly appreciated ...

[@jlee5180]

I rarely comment on KZbin, but I have to. To me this is mature, classy, and intriguing. Also fun. Sparks alot of feelings/moods when I hear it, actually. Skills upon skills here. Tasteful and a bit on the experimental side. The bass work is awesome so are the drums. Jazz, HipHop, Jungle-ish. One could "chill" to it, but when I hear it I am too busy listening. I have heard several albums that dance around this idea, but none compare imho. Great Stuff!

[@bobbobberson4805]

The drums in track 2. I'm blown away.

[@pissoutmyassable]

Just what I've been looking for. Thanks so much to the band and uploader!

[@BoChosen]

This is phenomenal. Thanks for the blessing...

[@jackmermigas9465]

Drumming making me giddy! Loving the pure class!

[@icyovarian1286]

the drumming feels so effortlessly smooth, sounds awesome

[@j3z0m374l]

Aaawesome, thank you guys for the upload

[@oliverschultz4943]

Very excellent music indeed! Thank you for sharing this!

[@MagicianTariq1]

This is by far the greatest thing I've ever heard

[@newyorknative88]

I’m full of emotions when it comes to this album, mostly sad because it took me till 2021 to hear about this collective group of musical all-stars.

[@alvintzarax8902]

I can't stop smiling ☺ I've been searching for something like this . Unbelievable everyone 👌

[@dariuseisenbeis357]

Absolute fantastic....

[@lagapieroful]

such a masterclass record! always glad to dicover this kind of beauty

[@Thegreyhairedgent]

Hey listeners.Try 'Sly' off Herbie Hancock's 1973 LP Headhunters for an historical reference point.I've purchased this Yussef Kamaal CD and I really dig it, but don't forget to familiarize yourselves with the pioneers of jazz/fusion so you can hear the influences on these young guys.

[@Eduza0]

True!

[@stevenuss1482]

Amen

[@AndyAndreev]

@@sergeruffles1380 i BET you are black

[@sergeruffles1380]

You bet your sweet ass

[@glaglo]

bless! thx mate

[@Aldous944]

Soaking this up on loop. Third time 'round, it just gets better and better. Best jazz I've heard in years.

[@LanceRohde]

This album is gold! Knew about it for a few years and sharing with a friend.

[@jeremysimmsMEF]

Got this on vinyl waiting for down at the (closed today) post office. An excellent album!

[@lubayart]

Masterpiece. Full-stop. Proudly owning vinyl copy.

[@compucorder64]

So good, love the echoes of classic Motor City techno and house in the string work too. Or even 'Deep Burnt' by Pépé Bradock, but that sampled Freddie Hubbard Little Sunflower, so what goes around comes around. The bass tone is soo satisfying. And drumming is sublimely delicate and funky.

[@giorgitsintsabadze645]

every single moment of this record is brilliant

[@pectenmaximus231]

This is such supreme music, so indebted to you guys, thank you.

[@koshn6924]

How did they get it so right....unreal love it , thanks for restoring my faith in real music!!!

[@macnsteez3938]

What a brilliant album, where has this been all my life?!

[@kasperkvaale6187]

Hell.. I'm an avid jazz rock collector, and this is the first time ever, I thinks.. that I was in doubt abt the year of this VERY fine music.. It sounded, (apart from some "modern" drum roll's", as we were right back in the 70'ies.. THNX for enlightening me !

[@ohsweetnothing]

I was listening to the Bill Burr podcast and he went on about this group. Great recommendation, great album!

[@EthanMarkMusic]

God this album is so good. Getting so much work done to it.

[@kimb5126]

Loving these guys, heard a track last year and just found album download, woohoo 😍 Top album guys

[@jvision07]

TV is turned off, radio has been smashed and since I am in Cali'... lighting one up and chilling the F out! Thank you Yussef!

[@SantomPh]

It's thank you Yussef & Kamaal. It's two guys and some friends

[@TheWhiteSlaveDave]

Yussef has always been energetic and deeply focused.

[@alejandrosanclem]

I dare to say this album is one of the best of its kind.

[@andreadaniel8792]

THIS is one to purchase!! It's all so good it makes me wanna cry.

[@RitwikKaikini]

one of the grooviest albums. I listen to the whole thing like a sound bath. Great drumming!

[@nubient]

Been playing some of this all summer in my DJ sets

[@RonnieRonnie3697]

It's past 3am and I was suffering through a anxiety attack as I was trying to study my Indonesian course on Duolingo. My attack lurched my progress and stole my focus away from me, I tried every kind of music I had in arsenal; from dark ambience to 90s hip hop beats alongside some breathing techinques I searched up but that combination turned out to be futile on my part. It wasn't until I remembered I that I saved this video, so I clicked back and relaxed. I'm feeling great right now! I've always loved Jazz but I haven't utilized it's use in a decompressing setting in a long time. I'm feeling like my self again, all much thanks to Yussef Kamaal's unique demonstration of beautiful Jazz music! Cheers y'all!

[@ashleypowell7956]

hope your course went well! best to you 🤍

[@oc1610]

ima need another album please, i be praying on that. king chops on this man

[@davecuk2581]

Awesome Album....PURE CLASS.....Yussef Kamaal.....

[@dennistsinas7443]

Love to everyones that is aware and goes against the system everyday in his way this is our only hope to stay human in an inhumane world!!

[@fabio.g.3259]

Contemporary masterpiece!!! Thanks God for a bit of fresh air in this current sea of music mud!!!!

[@BGMRelaxingJazz]

Wow, that's a great set of tunes you have there. Thanks for sharing it with us.

[@pav5355]

god i'm so flattered that youtube would recommend this to me. incredible

[@sizwendlanzi8181]

In between deep thoughts and hyper energetic! IM LOVIN IT!