Duval Timothy

Duval Timothy's latest album Help, his most ambitious work to date, sees him collaborate with co-producer Rodaidh McDonald (King Krule, The XX) and Marta Salogni (Bjork), with collaborations from Lil Silva, Melanie Faye, Vegyn, Desta Haile, Mr Mitch, Dave Okumo, and Twin Shadow amongst others.

Primarily recorded at my home studio in South London, Carrying Colour studio in Freetown, my old studio in Rotherhithe Old Police Station, and Casa Mahler in Spoleto.

Jean-François Duval sillonne depuis vingt ans les États-Unis sur la piste de Jack Kerouac et des héros de la Beat Generation, avec en ligne de mire notamment la figure charismatique de Neal Cassady, le héros de Sur la route. Il a retrouvé et s'est entretenu avec plusieurs protagonistes majeurs de la légende beat : Allen Ginsberg, Carolyn Cassady, Joyce Johnson, Timothy Leary, Anne Waldman, Ken Kesey. Sous une forme très vivante, il nous livre ici les résultats de son enquête. Enquête sur Kerouac et la Beat Generation rend justice à un écrivain phare et à un mouvement dont l'impact social et littéraire est beaucoup plus important qu'on ne le pense généralement…

Waella's Choice Presents London on Key album 12 original hits and the original artists genre Jazz. Includes tracks by Aidan Shepherd, Anna Rose Carter, Charlie Stacey, Dabriel Garius, Danalogue, Deoke, Elliot Galvin and more.

Okumu released his first solo record Knopperz in 2021; an instrumental concept album based on pianist Duval Timothy’s 2017 album Sen AmIt was friend and mentor Lexxx who sparked the soul searching that kicked off his next record after he told Okumu that he was trying to explain who Okumu was but struggled to summarise his vast catalogue.

ave Okumu's extensive résumé includes three full-lengths as the frontman of genre-defying indie electronic band the Invisible, as well as work on Jessie Ware's albums, several releases by Matthew Herbert, and a collaboration with Joan as Police Woman and Tony Allen and this list barely scratches the surface of everything he's done. Though he released Knopperz, an instrumental hip-hop record based on Duval Timothy's Sen Am, in 2021, he regards I Came from Love as his first true solo project. Credited to Dave Okumu & the 7 Generations, the album is a reflection of his own life and family ancestry (the son of Kenyan immigrants, he grew up in Vienna and has lived in England since he was ten) as well as an exploration of Black history as a whole. The album incorporates spoken passages drawing inspiration from the work of writers and activists such as Aimé Cesaire, James Baldwin, and C.L.R. James, as well as references to historical events.