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Seravince
12+ albums
Neo SoulBroken Beatsoulnu jazzfunk
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Seravince is an exciting new project from keyboardist and composer Vincent Helbers (aka Flowriders) that skillfully melds jazz, soul and hip hop as well as broken beat, the often imitated but seldom grasped sound of pre-millennial, subterranean London. It's a continuum of MPS-era George Duke, The Plantation Lullabies of Me'Shell Ndegéocello, Roy Hargrove's The RH Factor experiment and Dego and Kaidi Tatham's Silhouette Brown. The album is called Hear to See and it is a deceptively fiery statement from an artist that continues to defy categorisation. "First and foremost, it's about being true to yourself," says Helbers, who released his debut album, Starcraft, back in 2005 prior to expanding his palette on the highly acclaimed sophomore album, R.U.E.D.Y., in 2007. "I don't like to limit myself to one particular style. When I write I try to be as open-minded as possible so that all the music I listen to comes out unconsciously … and often unexpectedly. Of course that can be challenging when you're trying to make an album because there are no boundaries. It has a character all of its own." The DNA of this album reads like a connoisseur's wet dream. Helbers mentions three artists in particular: jazz polymath Herbie Hancock ("a master in the use of space, both when writing or playing); hip-hop iconoclast J Dilla ("I love the rhythmical tension and release in his music, how he could take a two-bar figure, repeat endlessly and make it sound great") and the prolific Mizell Brothers
