Sudanese- American Ahmed Gallab, who records as Sinkane, reflects the global village in this glorious new album, his eighth. Whether joyful and gospel inflected (Come Together, We Belong) disco workouts (the campy How Sweet Is Your Love) or songs of resistance (Everything Is Everything, and the fiery standout track Invisible Distance) which feel like an updated nod to the power of seventies Curtis Mayfield, there’s passion and heart in all of it, and immaculate production courtesy of.Money Mark, no less.
Silky strings, wah-wah guitar, solid soul harmonies and squidgy keyboards may not scream 2024, but this unashamedly retro- funk/Afrobeat/gospel/soul record fits nicely alongside the current neo-soul revival of Say She She, Gabriels and Black Pumas. Craig Charles would sell his Adidas collection for the songs here.
However, thematically, the lyrics of police brutality, racism and the need for an uprising within the African American community , remain as relevant today as they were in the George Clinton P funk heyday. “That’s the problem with tomorrow” , he sings on Everything Is Everything, with Tru Osborne, “Always one day away/ I just want to live in this moment/ And that’s what I pray”.
Available through City Slang on April 4th.
Hit The North 
perfectly cool. sometimes I think I was born at the wrong time. I hear something like this, and I know, I’m probably not the only one.
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