Moses Boyd Shortlisted for Mercury Prize Album of the Year, and also shared a new video to the song “Stranger Than Fiction”.

Moses Boyd Shortlisted for Mercury Prize Album of the Year for his debut album “Dark Matter’”. He also shared a new video to the song “Stranger Than Fiction”, the first single from that album. Moses is a drummer, composer, producer and bandleader, one of the central figures in the London jazz scene.
He is mostly known as half of Binker & Moses, project made with saxophonist Binker Golding, their three albums won one MOBO Award, two Jazz FM Awards and a Parliamentary Jazz Award. His self-titled jazz band Moses Boyd Exodus (also known as the Exodus), released several mixtapes in the mid-2010s and together have recorded most of Boyd's solo releases.

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“Dark Matter” was released in February through his own label Exodus Records, mixing several musical traditions into a bold new tapestry: the raw energy of grime and afrobeat and the rolling club rhythms of the London underground combined with the freewheeling creativity and collaborative spirit of his jazz training. The album features Theon Cross (tube), Nathaniel Cross (trombone), Nubya Garcia (sax), Ife Ogunjobi (trumpet), Artie Zaitz (guitar), Joe Armon-Jones (keys), Obongjayar, and Poppy Ajudha.

“It’s taken me a couple of years to learn this as a science, but I feel like I’ve been preparing for this. I realised it’s not enough to just write music and play it, I wanted to know how you capture it as well”, Moses said about his album.

Watch below a new video to Moses Boyd song “Stranger Than Fiction”, the first single from his Mercury Prize shortlisted last album “Dark Matter”: