Copie de Nothing To Me Now

The idea behind 'Ancestry' was to explore the stories from my family history, including my great, great grandfather: a black minister who married a white woman in Jamaica in 1880;  his son, the conservator of forestry on the island, who planted the trees that are now under threat from the extreme weather and flooding of the climate crisis; and the living and future children in our family, all framing the expression of themes of climate justice, dual heritage identity and generational healing.
 
The album was funded by Arts Council England and the MOBO fund of Help Musicians UK. I worked with producer Doug Cave, whose music features regularly on BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music, Worldwide FM and has frequent rotation on Spotify's jazz/leftfield Playlists, as well as some of Bristol's finest new wave jazz musicians from Snazzback, No Go Stop and Cousin Kula. 

The sound was inspired by classic artists like Marvin Gaye, Carole King and Minnie Riperton as well as Robert Glasper-esque RnB and jazz, and contemporary artists like of Cleo Sol, Sault, Michael Kiwanuka and Jordan Rakei, as well as spoken word of Arlo Parks and Kae Tempest.

Like Family

Tuesday Morning is now available on Bandcamp (Digital and vinyl!)
https://rykardaparasol.bandcamp.com

As well as all major streaming services
http://linktr.ee/rykarda

Tuesday Morning (Album Samples)

home is where the art is

On 18.10.2020, the Quatour Diotima premiered my string quartet “Code is poetry” as part of the first Barcelona String Quartet Biennale.


Quatuor Diotima
Yun-Peng Zhao, violin
Constance Ronzatti, violin
Franck Chevalier, viola
Pierre Morlet, cello

Code Is Poetry - Quatuor Diotima

A cover of the Christmas classic. Out now.

Freedom Fry - The Christmas Song (Cover)

spotify - https://bit.ly/3TniHQL

lyric video - https://youtu.be/2baO2t-F_8o

Additional Drums - Aaron Sterling
Saxophone - John Waugh
Mastered by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering, CA

Nothing To Me Now

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Code Is Poetry - Quatuor Diotima

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