Go to Chelsea to burn the house down and there's some firestarting that you do not want to be extinguished that builds from a tight easy-to-wrap-your-ears-around riff and fans out into quite a day trip. With some choice Okumu-Herbert underpinning when the piece generates its own momentum and unravels there's a rampaging Sons of Kemet swagger to 'There is You and You' new from Chelsea Carmichael here on tenor saxophone, the Kemet connection overt given that Shabaka Hutchings produced and the Kemets ex-Orient House Ensemble drummer Eddie Hick simmers and stirs throughout. There's a rawness to Carmichael (the Hendersonian Meiliana Gillard shares with her a sense of edge even when the idiom is different) that comes across and a lot of power. And after a little, yes, honking from Carmichael, Okumu's seriously dirty guitar solo around the three-and-a-half minute mark will rouse you from your stupor and probably up to punch the air and steal the available light. SG. Chelsea Carmichael photo: Adama Jalloh
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