Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Adrian Younge applies a crate-digger's perspective to organic syntheses of myriad Black music idioms while making direct connections with Africa and Brazil, and expanding outward to European progressive rock, pop, and film music. The uncommonly prolific producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist came to notice with his soundtrack for the blaxploitation homage Black Dynamite (2009), his first of many commissioned works for visual media. Something About April (2011) expanded his scope with conceptual psychedelic soul that led to helming albums by the Delfonics, Ghostface Kill...