Alfa Mist - VariablesI've been focused on who I am in my music, but now I'm exploring where I am," Alfa Mist says. "I'm asking: how did I get here?"This is the journeying question that underpins Alfa's fifth album, Variables. Traversing luscious, big band swing, head nodding boom bap rhythms and yearning vocal melodies, the record is expansive, soulful and moving, in both body and spirit. On Variables, his second release for ANTI , Alfa achieves his most fully realised,

While the dying composer dedicated this masterpiece 'to nobody

It would be a dream if we could record this music with the exceptional cast of musicians and soloist singers of the Saintes festival

from the lowest octave to the most daringly high registers

actor/musician/social justice advocate Tim Robbins and singer/songwriter/ novelist John Wesley Harding

was already described as the 'Liberator of Germania' by Tacitus

scoring his biggest successes in his early years with the Modern label

but continuing to perform top class new material through the musical upheavals of subsequent decades

He is best known as one of the record producers who pioneered the British Bhangra sound and for his many collaborations with musicians from different genres and continents

That's why he wrote such simple yet profound statements through his lyrics

Hundreds of years ago

The desire to express myself and share some love and hope with the world grew stronger than my feelings of anxiety about the future

In 1994 Claudio Abbado was awarded the International Ernst von Siemens Music Prize