Sean Khan - Distant Voice '2019

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BBE Music is excited to present ‘Distant Voice’, the new EP from
London saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Sean Khan.

Founder of SK Radicals and pioneer of the UK Broken Beat sound, early in the new
millennium Sean began collaborating with Bugz in the Attic, Kaidi Tatham,
Daz-I-Kue, Recloose and Mark De Clive Lowe, carving out a sound which has gone
on to influence artists all over the globe. Critically acclaimed solo projects
and a successful live band followed, seeing Sean perform to sell-out crowds at
Ronnie Scott’s and The Jazz Café. His most recent album project,
2016’s ‘Palmares Fantasy’, is a sumptuous Brazilian affair
featuring legendary local musician Hermeto Pascoal, Azymuth drummer Ivan
‘Mamão’ Conti and The Cinematic Orchestra’s front-woman
Heidi Vogel.
With a new long player, ‘Supreme Love’, close to completion and
slated for release on BBE in early 2020, Sean Khan’s ‘Distant
Voice’ EP provides a compelling snapshot into his musical influences.

Says Sean: “I have always strived to make something beautiful, distilled
down to the essence of the sound I am looking for. This means I really have to
know soul music, jazz music, some classical music etc., in order to be
convincing. So I have taken 4 different genres and played with them in my own
way. ‘Feel the Light’ is my take on spiritual soul, ‘The
Chaos’ is my take on the Parliament funk thing with some politics thrown
in, ‘The Long Goodbye’ is my take on the quintessential UK sound of
trip hop, and finally I went all out on ‘The Savage Detectives’ and
played some almost pure free-jazz-free-funk.”

Describing himself as a “career outsider”, during the Broken Beat
era Sean Khan found himself bringing a musician’s ear to a scene
dominated by DJs and producers. “I heard music in a slightly different
way, not better or worse, just slightly different” he says. Thanks to his
work in electronic music, he found himself bringing an equally different
approach to the world of jazz. It is this outlier status that gives the EP its
name: a Distant Voice, inviting the listener to come on a journey away from
names and labels, travelling closer to the essence.

The Distant Voice EP features:
Sean Khan – Saxophone, flute, keyboards and vocals
Kay Elizabeth – Vocals
Heidi Vogel – Vocals
Jackson Baird – Keys, bass, guitar
Laurie Lowe – Drums
Tom White – Trombone
Williams Cumberbatch – percussion
Francesco Quadraruopolo – engineer/assistant musical director
Will Worsley – Mix down/editing engineer
Victor Starkey – assistant mix down engineer.
Zulu – vocal sound engineer

Tracklist:
01. Sean Khan - Feel the Light (4:54)
02. Sean Khan - The Chaos (5:40)
03. Sean Khan - The Long Goodbye (5:22)
04. Sean Khan - The Savage Detectives (5:52)

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