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Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara

For 20 years Justin Adams has been developing a unique guitar style coloured by Arab, African, Blues, Dub and Psychedelic elements. Collaborations with Robert Plant (Justin is the guitarist in Robert’s band, Strange Sensation and co-wrote the “Mighty Rearranger” album), Tinariwen (he produced their current album, “Aman Iman: Water is Life” as well as their debut album “The Radio Tisdas Sessions”), Jah Wobble, (Justin was a member of Invaders of the Heart) Sinead O'Connor, Damien Dempsey, Lo’Jo and Natacha Atlas as well as musicians from African, Arab and Celtic traditions have brought his intuitive style to the fore.

Juldeh Camara is a master musician who straddles two worlds. His father received the gift of music from forest spirits who took the use of his eyes in return. Playing the Ritti, a one-stringed fiddle, as long as he can remember, he participated as a griot (a West African poet, praise singer and repository of oral tradition) in traditional Fula society. He was recorded by Bill Laswell for a CD of traditional Gambian music and it was this CD which Justin Adams had been listening to for years when he received a call from Juldeh.

Juldeh has an unusually keen and open ear; he had heard Justin's “Desert Road” CD and appreciated the way in which ancient trance-like rhythms had been given a modern vitality, not tidied up and shrink-wrapped but true to their essential spirit.

Justin and Juldeh’s debut collaborative album, “Soul Science”, was released in 2007 to great critical acclaim, winning the BBC Radio 3 World Music Award in the Crossing Borders category.