Scrimshire - Nothing Feels Like Everything
Adam Scrimshire has been busy during the last few years. Turning out album after album and top quality to boot! This being his sixth studio album is no slump.
“So many of us head back out into the world post-lockdown, with a different perspective on the overpowering nature of it.
Nothing Feels Like Everything, looks deeply at how the absence of something can be just as overwhelming, whether the absence of physical contact, the absence of love, the absence of empathy and respect.”
This album is delicate yet approachable and completely makes sense as we ease out of a pandemic. I find myself mixed with emotions on this album. It truly does feel like a soundtrack to my current state of mind. Offering me a sense of calm and healing as well as encouragement and hope. Thank you Adam.
It was a pleasant surprise to hear legends Cleveland Watkiss and Ursula Rucker bless the album. Yet in true Scrinshire collaboration there are an array of talented artist we have seen him work with before. Some are actually friends of ours and others we are just learning of their talents. They include; Miryam Solomon, Faye Houston, Jessica Lauren, Emanative, Chris Boot, Bev Lee Harling, Frank Moon, Huw Marc Bennett, Pie Eye Collective, Idris Rahman, Daudi Matsiko, Vince Vela and Philip Harper.
"Throughout lockdown I've been writing so much, and when I released Believers Vol. 1 back in November, I'd wanted to bring people something that captured the warmth and hopefulness I think we needed in spite of deep political and cultural turmoil. But there were obviously very low moments, socially and personally and I was capturing those too. This album holds more of those times of loss and being lost, of solitary contemplation and meditation, of yearning, of anxiety. More than I've experienced before, the collaborations came through long and beautiful phone conversations, developing friendships with new people, rekindling and supporting older relationships, taking time and giving each other time, care and space to create. It's what makes this album special to me."
Thank you for this offering Adam.
